Animal Behaviour and Welfare
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Data sets collected from projects exploring animal welfare science, welfare assessment, animal behaviour and animal welfare education from staff at R(D)SVS and the Roslin Institute. It also includes data from R(D)SVS MSc student dissertations from the following programmes: MSc in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare, MSc Clinical Animal Behaviour, MSc Equine Science and MSc in International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law.
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Development of an in vivo radiographic method with potential for use in improving bone quality and the welfare of laying hens through genetic selection.
Data from the measurement of bone density of laying hens using post mortem density and quasi static material testing and live bird x-ray derived density estimates. This is for the validation of live bird x-ray as a potential ... -
Data from: The effects of feed restriction, time of day and time since feeding on behavioral and physiological indicators of hunger in broiler breeder hens, Poultry Science article
We used broiler breeder hens fed one of 3 feed treatments: AL (ad libitum fed), Ram (restricted, fed in the morning) and Rpm (restricted, fed in the afternoon) to control for diurnal effects. We then conducted foraging ... -
Competitive environments affect aggression of dairy cows (Bos taurus)
We examined aggressive interactions between dairy cows in a range of competitive environments associated with different resources (pasture, milking line, cubicles and feed-face) and determined their relationship with ... -
The impact of acute loud noise on the behaviour of laboratory birds - data
We examined whether exposure to a routine laboratory noise, a low-frequency fire alarm test, induced behavioural changes in laboratory zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Twenty-four breeding pairs of zebra finches were ...
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