Sökning: "animal welfare"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 84 uppsatser innehållade orden animal welfare.

1. 1. Performance of laying hens in a cognitive bias task : effect of time since change of environment

   Kandidat-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

   Författare :Lena Lindström; [2010]
   Nyckelord :cognitive bias; laying hen; gallus gallus; animal behaviour; animal welfare;

   Sammanfattning : In the debate on laying hen welfare, and specifically housing conditions, the main focus has been on physiological and behavioural measures. What is lacking is knowledge of how the hen experiences the situation – her state of mind. This study is an attempt to gain insight into the private mental states of former battery hens. LÄS MER

3. 2. Fotröta hos får : en kartläggning av hur olika länder hanterar sjukdomen

   L3-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

   Författare :AnnaMaria Olhav; [2010]
   Nyckelord :fotröta; får; Dichelobacter nodosus; kontroll; utrotning;

   Sammanfattning : Foot rot is a severe claw disease which occurs among sheep and goats in most parts of the world, with outbreaks in hot and humid weather. It is a contagious bacterial infection caused by Dichelobacter nodosus in association with Fusobacterium necrophorum. Foot rot has a negative impact on both animal welfare and economy. LÄS MER

4. 3. Transforming the Brute : On the Ethical Acceptability of Creating Painless Animals

   Magister-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Centrum för tillämpad etik

   Författare :Brent Mittelstadt; [2009]
   Nyckelord :transforming; brute; nociception; pain; genetic; engineering; manipulation; modification; modify; gene; genes; bernard; rollin; animal; microencephalic; lumps; decerebrate; aml; amls; painless; painlessness; integrity; dignity; rights; companionship; telos; alteration; biomedicine; biomedical; experiment; experimentation; agriculture; farm; suffering; distress; capacity; bioethics; ethics; applied; mice; scn9a; nav1.7; gene; therapy; germ; line;

   Sammanfattning : Transforming the Brute addresses the ethical acceptability of creating painless animals for usage in biomedical experimentation.  In recent decades the possibility of creating genetically decerebrate animals or AMLs for human ends has been discussed in scientific, academic, and corporate communities. LÄS MER

5. 4. Djurförbud : en granskning av beslut enligt 29 § djurskyddslagen under 2006-2008

   Kandidat-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and Health

   Författare :Sara Swedblom; [2009]
   Nyckelord :Djurförbud; Djurskydd; Djurskyddslagstiftning; Djurskyddsärenden;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this candidate thesis is to obtain an overall picture of how many prohibitions against owning or taking care of animals that were announced in Sweden in the years 2006-2008 and on what basis these judicial decisions were taken. What is the situation for the person behind the judicial decisions? Is there a so-called risk category where preventive actions to solve the problem can be taken at an earlier stage? The first Swedish animal welfare legislation came into force in 1944. LÄS MER

7. 5. Böklåda med torv på rastgårdsytan i ekologisk slaktsvinsproduktion : effekter på beteende och emission av kväve (NH3 och N2O)

   Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Animal Nutrition and Management

   Författare :Emma Selberg Nygren; [2009]
   Nyckelord :organic pig production; ammonia; nitrous oxide; peat; behaviour;

   Sammanfattning : In organic animal production, synthetic amino acids are not allowed. Therefore, a higher level of crude protein is needed in the diet to pigs, which lead to more nitrogen (N) excreted in the faeces and urine. N can be emitted to the air in the form of e.g. LÄS MER