Animal-Based Indicators for On-Farm Welfare Assessment in Goats

This review describes the current state of knowledge relating to scientific literature on welfare indicators for goats. Our aim was to provide an overview of animal-based indicators for on-farm welfare assessments. We performed a literature search and extracted 96 relevant articles by title, abstrac...

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Published in:	Animals
Main Authors:	Adrian Minnig, Romane Zufferey, Beat Thomann, Sibylle Zwygart, Nina Keil, Gertraud Schüpbach-Regula, Raymond Miserez, Dimitri Stucki, Patrik Zanolari
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2021-11-01
Subjects:	goat small ruminant animal-based welfare assessment welfare indicators on-farm
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/11/3138

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