Bovine Wellfare Handled in Adapted Corral With Unconventional Materials

Abstract

This study aimed at evaluating bovine behavioral parameters managed in crowding pens built with modular panel of reforestation wood and homogeneous particle sheets of sugarcane bagasse and in conventional wooden crowding pens. The animals treated had their body surface temperature measured by the infrared thermography method and the behavior evaluated through the flight time parameters and the behavior score in the crowding pens. The results indicated that the animals managed in these buildings showed no difference in the behavioral parameters, but the mean and maximum superficial body temperatures were lower in the animals managed in the crowding pens of modular panel.

Medidas comportamentais e fisiológicas: correlação e relevância para avaliação do bem-estar de bovinos de corte

“…The different ways of assessing temperament measure the animal's fear responses, possibly describing distinct components of reactivity (Smolinger & Škorjanc, 2021). temperament of the individual as a quality (Sartori et al, 2019), while the composite scale score can be related to docility, which expresses the character of an individual who learns easily, is easily led and can adapt to environments and handling. Consequently, in order for the flight distance to be correlated with or influence the physiological indicators of the stress response, the animal needs to undergo greater environmental disruption.…”