Introducing Animals to New Experiences

Commentary: Behavior of Slaughter Plant and Auction Employees toward the Animals

Animal Welfare and Humane Slaughter

Doramectin causes significantly less discomfort during injection than Ivermectin

Review: Reducing handling stress improves both productivity and welfare

The feasibility of using vocalization scoring as an indicator of poor welfare during cattle slaughter

Crate Conditioning of Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus) for Veterinary and Husbandry Procedures at the Denver Zoological Gardens

Thinking the Way Animals Do

Objective Scoring of Animal Handling and Stunning Practices at Slaughter Plants

Behavioral Genetics and Animal Science

Teaching Principles of Behaviour and Equipment Design For Handling Livestock

Solving Livestock Handling Problems

Euthanasia and the slaughter of livestock

Electro-Immobilization Versus Mechanical Restraint in an Avoid-Avoid Choice Test for Ewes

Feedlot Cattle with Calm Temperaments Have Higher Average Daily Gains Than Cattle with Excitable Temperaments

Electroanaesthesia or electroimmobilisation of calves, sheep and pigs by the Feenix Stockstill

Assessment of Stress During Handling and Transport

Sheep may be more averse to electro-immobilisation than to shearing

Using Aversion Learning Techniques to Assess the Mental State, Suffering, and Welfare of Farm Animals

Aversion of Sheep to Electro-Immobilisation and Physical Restraint

Humaneness of an electroimmobilization unit for cattle

Animal Welfare in Slaughter Plants

Factors that Impede Animal Movement at Slaughter Plants

Training Antelope to Cooperate with Veterinary Procedures

Conditioning of Nyala (Tragelaphus angasi) to blood sampling in a crate with positive reinforcement

Design of loading facilities and holding pens

Restraint of Livestock

Religious Slaughter and Animal Welfare: A Discussion For Meat Scientists

Behavioral Principles of Livestock Handling

Sensitivity to sudden intermittent sounds and movements is related to excitability in cattle

Cattle hair whorl position and temperament in auction houses

Safe Handling of Large Animals (Cattle and Horses)

Factors Contributing to the Incidence of Dark Cutting Beef

Bos Indicus-Cross feedlot cattle with excitable temperaments have tougher meat and a higher incidence of borderline dark cutters

The design and construction of facilities for handling cattle

Cattle with hair whorl patterns above the eyes are more behaviourally agitated during restraint

Bruise levels on fed and non-fed cattle

The relationship between facial hair whorls and milking parlor side preferences

Behavioural agitation during handling of cattle is persistent over time

Bruises on southwestern feedlot cattle

Survey of Trucking Practices and Injury to Slaughter Horses

The Way I See It: The Dangers of Trait Over-Selection

Consciousness in Animals and People with Autism

Thinking the Way Animals Do

Observation of normal and abnormal hair whorl patterning on the equine forehead

Effect of rearing environment and environmental enrichment on the behavior and neural development of young pigs.

Handling Pigs for Optimum Performance

Cardiac arrest stunning of livestock and poultry

Effect of genetics on handling and CO2 stunning of pigs

Boar presence reduces fighting in mixed slaughter-weight pigs

Methods to reduce PSE and bloodsplash

Environmental Enrichment for Confinement Hogs

Toys, mingling and driving reduce excitability in pigs

Richness of pig's environment affects handling in chute

Effects of rearing environment on the behaviour of young pigs

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