VETS20015 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Onychectomy, Noxious Stimulus, Animal Welfare
5 Aug 2018
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Ilo: analyse the effects on animal welfare of environmental conditions, social factors, management procedures & human interaction. Primary industries standing committee model code of practice for the. Welfare of animals- cattle: most husbandry are performed on farm animals, most welfare advocates concerns- are related to farm animals, model codes of practice for animal welfare. Tail docking: only done in dairy cows. Infra-red beak trimmer (less at risk of neuroma formation: uses a non-contact, high intensity infrared source. Initially the beak surface remains intact but after a few weeks the tip of the beak erodes. Intensity infrared beam- touches and damages the edge of the beak- it then dies and erodes- bird is left with a flat beak. Older lambs: lamb on left has been mulesed- bare area is increased, stretched- out look less wool and much less faecal contamination, lamb on right: has not been mulesed. Results- behaviour: hunched standing was reduced in the first 4 hours:
