A5046078010- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Microbial infections and disease research
- Advanced Data Processing Techniques
- Agriculture and Biological Studies
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Pharmacological Effects and Assays
- Management and Organizational Practices
- Manufacturing Process and Optimization
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Digital Transformation in Industry
- Agricultural Systems and Practices
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2023
University of Milan
2013-2014
Unexpected pathogen transmission between animals, humans and their shared environments can impact all aspects of society. The Tripartite organisations-the Food Agriculture Organization the United Nations (FAO), World Health (WHO), Organisation for Animal (WOAH)-have been collaborating over two decades. inclusion Environment Program (UNEP) with Tripartite, forming 'Quadripartite' in 2021, creates a new important avenue to engage environment sectors development additional tools resources One...
In the past decades, increasing scale of intensive pig farms led farmers to use automatic tools monitor welfare and health their animals. Visual observation manual monitoring, usually practiced in small-scale farms, is unreliable large-scale husbandry, expensive time consuming. Environmental parameters are crucial information for efficient management piggery buildings, as they have a significant effect on production efficiency, confined The aim present study was evaluate relationship between...
The aim of this study was to develop an innovative method for measuring the activity level pigs in a barn real time. An infrared-sensitive camera placed over two pens piggery, images were recorded 24 h day eight days during fattening period, and occupation indices calculated every second time using software. In laboratory, visually labelled score animals’ behaviour adopting Martin Bateson’s Scan sampling method, find relation with automatically measured index. Pigs’ assigned following way, 0...
Abstract The aim of this study was to explore the preference and duration interest weaned pigs two different types environmental enrichments using labelling techniques activity monitoring. Two pens each housing 14 Dalland piglets were monitored a video camera. videos labelled during weaning phase from 30 60 days age. During time, recording software continuously calculated index pigs. To detect pig exploratory playing behaviour, wooden block chain enrichment introduced into pen for days. Each...
It is known that pigs raised in enriched environments express less aggressive behaviour. For this reason, a new method of cognitive environmental enrichment was experimented at the University Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Germany. In first phase, 78 suckling piglets were trained to learn link between sound given by an electronic feeder and feed reward form chocolate candies during period 8 days. second same used resident-intruder tests verify potential feeding system interrupt The analysis...
The aim of the study was to test whether aggressive actions among piglets could be redirected by an automatically generated sound signal followed a sweet food reward. Per round, four litters 25-day-old (BHZP breed) were trained 5 times per day over 8 days expect feed reward from dog feeder after hearing specific sound. In total 144 in 14 entire five trials. At end training 71% around s After period, weaned and mixed two pens, 12 pen. During 2 (3 h/day) mixing observers (one pen) hidden...