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ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2020

Welfare Assessment on Pasture: A Review on Animal-Based Measures for Ruminants.

Chiara Spigarelli, Anna Zuliani, Monica Battini, Silvana Mattiello, Stefano Bovolenta

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Review in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed
7.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Chiara SpigarelliDepartment of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy.
Anna ZulianiDepartment of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy.
Monica BattiniDepartment of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Production, Landscape, Agroenergy, University of Milan, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Silvana MattielloDepartment of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences - Production, Landscape, Agroenergy, University of Milan, 20133 Milano, Italy.
Stefano BovolentaDepartment of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy.
University of Udine · ITUniversity of Milan · IT

Funding

Interreg ITAT2009
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Outdoor and extensive farming systems allow animals to behave in a natural way and are often perceived as welfare friendly. Nonetheless, the natural environment poses multiple challenges to the welfare of animals, sometimes hampering their capacity to cope. Welfare assessment in outdoor and extensive systems has been rarely investigated, and little is known about the most appropriate indicators. The aim of this review was to identify animal-based measures of welfare to apply in extensive and pasture-based systems in domestic ruminants. Through the use of a dedicated software for systematic reviews, 810 papers were screened and a total of 52 papers were retained for in-depth analysis. ABM resulting from these papers were initially divided according to the species (cattle and small ruminants, including sheep and goats) and then to four principles: comfort, behavior, feeding and health. The results showed that welfare data were collected applying different methodologies, with an increasing use of sensors in recent years. The need to herd and restrain animals for individual data collection is one of the major constraints to data collection in extensive farming systems. It is suggested that welfare assessment in outdoor/extensive farming systems is carried out by following shared procedures in order to provide evidence of the higher animal welfare claims that these products often imply compared to indoor systems.

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animal welfarecattleextensivegoatsindicatoroutdoorsheep

Identifiers

PMID32252331
PMCPMC7222824
OpenAlexW3014134611

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