ReviewAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2022
Positive Aspects of Welfare in Sheep: Current Debates and Future Opportunities.
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- Precision Livestock Farming Technologies for Sheep Welfare in Extensive Systems: A Comprehensive Review.Veterinary medicine and science · 2026Review
- Comparative On-Farm Welfare Assessment of Sheep in Extensive, Semi-Extensive, and Semi-Intensive Systems.Veterinary sciences · 2026Article
- Effects of seasonality and different rearing systems on the behavior and thermal comfort of sheep in the northern region of Brazil, eastern Amazon.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Animal Welfare Problems in Sheep Farming: A Current Overview for Germany Based on Surveys of Veterinary Offices and the Evaluation of Publicly Accessible Court Cases.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Discourses on Positive Animal Welfare by Sheep Farmers and Industry Actors: Implications for Science and Communication.Veterinary sciences · 2024Article
- Physiological Effect of Gentle Stroking in Lambs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Development of a Parturition Detection System for Korean Native Black Goats.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Refinement in Post-Operative Care for Orthopaedic Models: Implementing a Sheep Walking Cast (SWC) for Effective Tibial Fracture Management.Biomedicines · 2024Article
- Assessing Animal Welfare Risk in Fibre-Producing Animals by Applying the Five Domains Framework.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
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Abstract
The concept of positive welfare is an expansion of the traditional understanding that animal welfare is defined by minimizing stress, pain, suffering, and disease. Positive welfare shifts the animal welfare narrative from a focus on reducing negative experiences to proactively providing animals with opportunities to have positive experiences and feelings. The concept, although around for several decades, is in its infancy in terms of developing ways of assessing positive welfare on farms, especially in extensive systems, and there are challenges in the adoption of positive welfare practices and the monitoring of continuous improvement at the farm level. Using an iterative approach, this critical review aims to explore the extent to which positive welfare interventions and indicators are positioned and have been developed within the animal welfare literature for sheep. This paper critiques existing positive welfare indicators, such as choices in food and the physical environment, conspecific social synchronization, maternal bonds, intergenerational knowledge transfer, positive human-animal relationships, etc., as currently assessed by the 'good life framework'. It also reviews the characteristics of scientific measures for (positive) affective states in the current sheep literature and their potential contribution to understanding positive welfare states in sheep. In conclusion, this paper provides recommendations for future research regarding sheep welfare.
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