ArticleScientific reports2019
Pair housing makes calves more optimistic.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Welfare implications on management strategies for rearing dairy calves: A systematic review. Part 2 - Social management.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Pooled it
- Through the Calf's Eye: Exploring Infrared Thermography to Uncover Pair-Housed Calves' Affective States.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Effect of dairy calf rearing systems on affective states.Discover animals · 2026Review
- Cognition of dairy cattle: Implications for animal welfare and dairy science.JDS communications · 2025Review
- Measuring minds: Understanding the mental states of dairy cattle in different management conditions.JDS communications · 2025Article
- Effects of access to a well-resourced environment on dairy calf cognition and affective state.PloS one · 2025Article
- By your side: How social support affects training duration, task performance and behaviour of pigs in a Judgement Bias Task.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2025Article
- Mitigating the Effects of Maternal Loss on Harbour Seal Pups in Captive Care.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Current research considering social behavior to improve the welfare of commercially raised dairy calves.JDS communications · 2024Article
- Effects of thermal stress on calf welfare.JDS communications · 2024Article
- Long-Term Effects of Pre-Weaning Individual or Pair Housing of Dairy Heifer Calves on Subsequent Growth and Feed Efficiency.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Social housing improves dairy calves' performance in a competition test.JDS communications · 2023Article
- Welfare of calves.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2023Article
- Use of qualitative behavioural assessment to investigate affective states of housed dairy cows under different environmental conditions.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- Indication of social buffering in disbudded calves.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Assessing dairy calf response to long-distance transportation using conditioned place aversion.JDS communications · 2022Article
- Historical Evolution of Cattle Management and Herd Health of Dairy Farms in OECD Countries.Veterinary sciences · 2022Review
- Transcriptional profiles in the mouse amygdala after a cognitive judgment bias test largely depend on the genotype.Frontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022Article
- Calves are socially motivated.JDS communications · 2022Article
- Negative play contagion in calves.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Individual housing of dairy calves is common farm practice, but has negative effects on calf welfare. A compromise between practice and welfare may be housing calves in pairs. We compared learning performances and affective states as assessed in a judgement bias task of individually housed and pair-housed calves. Twenty-two calves from each housing treatment were trained on a spatial Go/No-go task with active trial initiation to discriminate between the location of a teat-bucket signalling either reward (positive location) or non-reward (negative location). We compared the number of trials to learn the operant task (OT) for the trial initiation and to finish the subsequent discrimination task (DT). Ten pair-housed and ten individually housed calves were then tested for their responses to ambiguous stimuli positioned in-between the positive and negative locations. Housing did not affect learning speed (OT: F
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