This book contains the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Assessment of Animal Welfare at the Farm and Group Level, held September 5-8, 2017 in Wageningen, the Netherlands.
WAFL is an international scientific conference on the assessment of animal welfare at farm or group level. Issues addressed during a WAFL conference can be: welfare criteria; welfare indicators and methods to analyse them; automation of measures; ways to deal with a large amount of data from various welfare measures in order to assess the overall welfare of animals; rationales underlying epidemiological studies and risk models; consultation processes; implementation in practice; communication of animal welfare assessment results; and other topics related to animal welfare assessment in practice.
This book contains the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Assessment of Animal Welfare at the Farm and Group Level, held August 16-19, 2021 in Cork, Ireland.
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Assessment of Animal Welfare at the Farm and Group Level, held in Wageningen, 5-8 september 2017.
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