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SARS-CoV-2 in animals: susceptibility of animal species, risk for animal and public health, monitoring, prevention and control
Contributor(s):: Nielsen, Soren Saxmose, Alvarez, Julio, Bicout, Dominique Joseph, Calistri, Paolo, Canali, Elisabetta, Drewe, Julian Ashley, Garin-Bastuji, Bruno, Gonzales Rojas, Jose Luis, Gortazar, Christian, Herskin, Mette, Michel, Virginie, Miranda Chueca, Miguel Angel, Padalino, Barbara, Pasquali, Paolo, Roberts, Helen Clare, Spoolder, Hans, Velarde, Antonio, Viltrop, Arvo, Winckler, Christoph, Adlhoch, Cornelia, Aznar, Inmaculada, Baldinelli, Francesca, Boklund, Anette, Broglia, Alessandro, Gerhards, Nora, Mur, Lina, Nannapaneni, Priyanka, Stahl, Karl
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Animal welfare measured at mink farms in Europe
Contributor(s):: Henriksen, Britt I. F., Møller, Steen H., Malmkvist, Jens
Although the welfare of farm mink has been debated for decades, the status at mink farms has not previously been reported. Likewise, little is known about the variation in housing conditions and animal responses between mink farms, although relevant for identifying key opportunities and...
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Prevalence and severity of tail lesions as a possible welfare indicator for rabbit does
Contributor(s):: Bill, J., Rauterberg, S. L., Stracke, J., Kemper, N., Fels, M.
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Changes in the welfare of mink (Neovison vison) with date of assessment in the winter and growth periods have limited effects on the overall WelFur categorisation
Contributor(s):: Marsboll, A. F., Henriksen, B. I. F., Hansen, B. K., Moller, S. H.
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The representativeness of a semi-random sampling method for animal welfare assessments on mink farms
| Contributor(s):: Marsboll, A. F., Henriksen, B. I. F., Moller, S. H.
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Anticipatory behaviour in animals: A critical review
| Contributor(s):: Anderson, C., von Keyserlingk, M. A. G., Lidfors, L. M., Weary, D. M.
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Effects of housing conditions on behaviour and physiology in the Finnraccoon (Nyctereutes procyonoides ussuriensis)
| Contributor(s):: Koistinen, T., Moisander-Jylha, M., Korhonen, H. T.
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Classification of animal welfare on mink farms differs between three annual production periods
| Contributor(s):: Henriksen, B. I. F., Sorensen, J. T., Moller, S. H.
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The concept of behavioural needs in contemporary fur science: do we know what American mink (Mustela vison) really need?
| Contributor(s):: Kornum, A. L., Rocklinsberg, H., Gjerris, M.
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Providing elevated ‘getaway bunks’ to nursing mink dams improves their health and welfare
| Contributor(s):: Dawson, Lauren, Buob, Misha, Haley, Derek, Miller, Steve, Stryker, Judy, Quinton, Margaret, Mason, Georgia
Farmed mink infants (Neovison vison) remain with their mothers beyond natural weaning age. This benefits their welfare, but can stress their mothers and contribute to illness (e.g. ‘nursing sickness’). European studies have explored augmenting cages with structures allowing mothers to get away...
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Providing ‘get-away bunks’ and other enrichments to primiparous adult female mink improves their reproductive productivity
| Contributor(s):: Buob, Misha, Meagher, Rebecca, Dawson, Lauren, Palme, Rupert, Haley, Derek, Mason, Georgia
This study investigated whether simple, cheap enrichments – ‘get-away bunks’ (a wire mesh semi-cylinder attached to the cage ceiling) and small manipulable objects (balls and suspended chewing items) – could improve welfare and productivity in nursing mink dams (Neovison vison) in commercial farm...
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Bite marks in mink—Induced experimentally and as reflection of aggressive encounters between mink
| Contributor(s):: Hansen, Steffen W., Møller, Steen H., Damgaard, Birthe M.
For many years, bite marks have been used as an indicator for aggression in mink production systems. However, the validity of bite marks as indicator of aggression has recently been questioned. We therefore tested the following hypotheses: (1) experimentally applied pressure to, or penetration...
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Who's afraid of the big bad glove? Testing for fear and its correlates in mink
| Contributor(s):: Meagher, Rebecca K., Duncan, Ian, Bechard, Allison, Mason, Georgia J.
Fear in farm animals is a welfare and economic concern. For Scandinavian mink, the “stick test” is common for assessing fearfulness: a spatula is inserted into the cage and minks’ immediate responses are noted. However, on Ontario farms, fearfulness in the stick test was very rare and aggressive...
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Feed restriction and tubes for environmental enrichment in growing mink—Consequences for behaviour and welfare
| Contributor(s):: Hansen, Steffen Werner, Møller, Steen Henrik, Damgaard, Birthe Marie
This experiment compared the behaviour of mink during two different feeding routines; slightly restrictive (‘food free period’ of 6h) or standard (‘food free period’ of 2h), respectively, and the mink's use of two different types of occupational material; an attached tube made of wire mesh and a...
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Effects of access to extra cage constructions including a swimming opportunity on the development of stereotypic behaviour in singly housed juvenile farmed mink (Neovison vison)
| Contributor(s):: Ahola, Leena, Mononen, Jaakko, Mohaibes, Maarit
The aim of the study was to find out whether an access to extra cage constructions including either a 180l pool (SP group) or a pool-sized extra cage (0.61m2) (EC group) would slow down the development of stereotypic behaviour in singly housed farmed mink (Neovison vison). Mink housed in...
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Effects of group size on behaviour, growth and occurrence of bite marks in farmed mink
| Contributor(s):: Axelsson, Heléne M. K., Hansen, Steffen W., Loberg, Jenny, Lidfors, Lena
The aims of this study were to investigate the occurrence of stereotypic behaviours and the activity level in farmed mink when group housed in climbing cages and if group housing increase aggression by assessing the prevalence of bite marks. This was studied in juvenile mink of the colour types...
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Environmentally enriching American mink (Neovison vison) increases lymphoid organ weight and skeletal symmetry, and reveals differences between two sub-types of stereotypic behaviour
| Contributor(s):: Diez-Leon, M., Bursian, S., Galicia, D., Napolitano, A., Palme, R., Mason, G.
Enrichment studies for wild carnivores (e.g., in zoos) are often short-term, use enrichments of unknown motivational significance, and focus on glucocorticoids and stereotypic behaviour (SB), ignoring other stress-relevant variables. Our study assessed the broad behavioural and physiological...
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Workaholic ferrets: does a two-chamber consumer demand study give insight in the preferences of laboratory ferrets ( Mustela putorius furo)?
| Contributor(s):: Reijgwart, M. L., Vinke, C. M., Hendriksen, C. F. M., Meer, M. van der, Schoemaker, N. J., Zeeland, Y. R. A. van
Although provision of environmental enrichment is an effective tool to refine laboratory animal experiments, it is currently unknown which enrichments ferrets prefer. This study aimed to assess the suitability of a closed economy, two-chamber consumer demand set-up to determine ferrets'...
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Early transfer of mated females into the maternity unit reduces stress and increases maternal care in farm mink
| Contributor(s):: Malmkvist, J., Palme, R.
Mated mammals on farms are typically transferred to another housing environment prior to delivery. We investigated whether the timing of this transfer - EARLY (Day -36), INTERMEDIATE (Day -18), or LATE (Day -3) relative to the expected day of birth (Day 0) - affects maternal stress, maternal care...
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The reliability of welfare assessment according to the WelFur-protocol in the nursing period of mink (Neovison vison) is challenged by increasing welfare problems prior to weaning
| Contributor(s):: Henriksen, B. I. F., Moller, S. H.
The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that the body condition of the mink dam, the frequency of dirty nests, frequency of injuries and diarrhoea change significantly with the day of assessment, post-partum, within the data collection period from parturition to weaning,...
