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Björn Forkman speaks WAFL2024 about indicators of positive animal welfare in cattle.

Anna Wallenbeck highlighting that housing and management have practical relevance for unplanned culling and mortality in group housed sows 🐖 #wafl2024 #cullsow #sowwelfare

Interesting talk by Eva Read about a survey among animal welfare scientists, showing agreement that it is considered important to include industry in the progress of animal welfare #wafl2024

Prof Björn Forkman presenting new findings on QBA and indicators of positive emotions in #dairycattle #wafl2024 #cattlewelfare Using QBA to assess (positive) emotional state is supported 🐮

Excelente plenaria de Bob Fischer sobre cuantificación económica de #BienestarAnimal #WAFL2024 #AnimalWelfare

Peter Stevenson Compassion in World Farming UK makes a passionate plea for #animalwelfare to be the 4th pillar supporting sustainability of #livestockproduction #animalwelfarescience #WAFL2024

Molly Harrison TeagascPig Teagasc speaking at #WAFL2024 👏🏻 good support for a #pigwelfare 🐽 #qualityassurance scheme in Ireland 🇮🇪 and most people value AW highly irrespective of their general feelings about labels!

Gerard Martin presents at WAFL2024 the #MoreWelfare desk research with Animals EFSA on AW assessment schemes. Some conclusions are a lack of schemes on aquatic species and the rise of PLF indicators to be included in AW assessment.

Beautiful tribute to Prof Andrew Fisher who died suddenly this year from Caroline Lee CSIRO #animalwelfarescientist #animalwelfarescience #WAFL2024 Teagasc

One can only be amazed by the cognitive abilities of goats after the #wafl2024 plenary by Jan Langbein.

An all time favourite presenter Jan Langbein on learning and cognition in farm animals and its application to animal husbandry. So many interesting findings and cool studies on how farm animals learn. Just look at this potty trained calf 🥹 #farmanimalcognition #wafl2024

Do you think odourising straw could make it more enriching for growing pigs? Stop by poster 11 in the coffee break if you’re at #WAFL2024 and I will give you the answer. I’m right next to the cake and coffee table ☕️🍪🍩 #pigolfaction #smellthis

The fantastic #SLU delegation at #WAFL2024 🤓 we cover the welfare of🐮🐷🐑🐟🐓 #animalwelfare #teamSLU

Favorite #wafl2024 presentation by Dr Lucy Oldham from SRUC, who let the audience directly experience the concept of social networks. She looked at the influence of cognitive abilities on pig aggression.

The Animal behaviour, stress and welfare - AU team at WAFL2024 - happy to be part of a team of scientists focusing on different aspects of animal welfare and sharing knowledge on the topic Aarhus Universitet Technical Sciences - Aarhus University Institut for Husdyr- og Veterinærvidenskab, AU #WAFL2024

So many good posters at #WAFL2024! Here some of the #equitationscience posters on the welfare of sports horses by @LeaLansade and team and on effect of social interaction on the emotional state of horses by Anna Flamand and team🐎 #equinewelfare #horseemotions

Still a full room at the last session of #wafl2024, with a great presentation about Clearfarm outcomes on using PLF in farms. Heng-Lun Ko, on behalf of Pol Llonch , takes us through the steps of the validation protocols.

Acoustic identification of “careless” sows by Richard Mott emphasising that acoustic identification of near-misses may not be practically feasible to assist farmers in preventing crushed piglet but it is a useful tool to collect data otherwise missed. #wafl2024 #animalacoustics

Laura Boyle 🇮🇪 closing #WAFL2024 with a stirring calling for Transformative farm animal research for improving animal welfare, not just tinkering with a System that can never be fixed. Hear hear!

Gracias a #WAFL2024 por la invitación a compartir lo que hemos hecho en #BienestarAnimal #AnimalWelfare