Lamb mortality remains a significant welfare and economic issue for sheep production. Lamb survival is to a degree dependent upon an easy delivery and the expression of appropriate behaviours from both mother and offspring, such as rapid standing, udder seeking and sucking by the lamb. Genetic solutions have the potential to improve birth assistance and lamb behaviour but large amounts of data ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect housing system on behaviour, performance, and health dairy calves. two-year conducted 56 Holstein bull calves (from birth 60 days age) that were placed in individual hutches immediately after their birth. At age 31 days, 28 moved group by four. weighed at birth, 30 age. starter intake recorded once a day. behavioural activities (lying, standing c...

Introduction There is considerable variation in the extent of the association between a blood sucking insect and its host. Blood sucking Diptera such as mosquitoes are temporary ectoparasites, only visiting the host for long enough to obtain a blood meal. Temporary ectoparasites such as tsetse flies, tabanids and mosquitoes tend to take relatively large blood meals, thus limiting the danger fro...

This single-subject research study with replication evaluated the effect of daily occupational therapy on the nutritive and nonnutritive sucking behaviors of three high-risk, premature infants. At the time of entrance into the study, the infants were 34 to 35 weeks old and were documented poor feeders. Treatment consisted of individual, multimodal sensory stimulation, with emphasis on proprioce...

THE effects of a high concentrate versus high fibre diet on performance parameters and welfare of the horse have been widely studied in the past (Tinker and others 1997, Nadeau and others 2000, McGreevy and others 2001, Ellis and others 2002). Horses fed diets low in ‘structural’ fibre have a greater susceptibility to develop stereotypical behaviour (apparently functionless, repetitive activiti...