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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2019

Hair Cortisol in Sheltered Cows and Its Association with Other Welfare Indicators.

Arvind Sharma, Govindhaswamy Umapathy, Vinod Kumar, Clive J C Phillips

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Arvind SharmaCentre for Animal Welfare and Ethics, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, Gatton QLD 4343, Australia. arvind.sharma@uqconnect.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0003-2006-3263
Govindhaswamy UmapathyLaboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500007, India. guma@ccmb.res.in.
Vinod KumarLaboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad 500007, India. vinod@ccmb.res.in.
Clive J C PhillipsCentre for Animal Welfare and Ethics, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Gatton Campus, Gatton QLD 4343, Australia. c.phillips@uq.edu.au.
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology · INThe University of Queensland · AU

Funding

Universities Federation for Animal Welfare UFAW Grant 13-16/17
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

India, the country with the largest population of dairy cows in the world, has a policy of retiring abandoned and non-lactating cows in shelters, but the level of provision for their welfare in these shelters is unclear. Cows in 54 shelters across India were assessed for historic evidence of physiological stress, through determination of hair cortisol in 540 samples from 10 cows in each shelter by enzyme immunoassay. Animal-based and shelter resource-based welfare measures were recorded and correlations with the hair cortisol investigated by multivariable analysis. High hair cortisol concentrations were associated with dung in the lying area of the cowshed, a low dry bulb temperature there and little cow access to yards, as shelter-based variables. At a cow level, high hair cortisol concentrations were associated with dirty flanks, hock joint ulceration, carpal joint injuries, body lesions, dehydration, an empty rumen, old age, and low levels of body hair loss. Hair cortisol level promises to be an effective biomarker of stress in cows when conducting studies under field conditions.

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cowshair cortisolindicatorsmeasuresresourcesshelterswelfare

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PMID31100915
PMCPMC6562612
OpenAlexW2945044540

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