This study compared the outcome of the Swedish Official Control (OC) with that of two other well-established protocols for assessing animal welfare in dairy cows, ‘Ask the Cow’ (AC) and Welfare Qualit
Background: The approach to farm animal welfare evaluation has changed and animal-based measures (ABM), defined as the responses of an animal or effects on an animal, were introduced to assess animal
These data report on the hen-day egg production across a flock cycle for free-range hens from different rearing enrichment treatments. Weekly egg weights and periodic egg quality measurements are incl
Data from the measurement of bone density of laying hens using post mortem density and quasi static material testing and live bird x-ray derived density estimates. This is for the validation of live b
