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Biblioteca(s): | INIA Tacuarembó.
Tipo de la producción científica: | Artículos en Revistas Indexadas Internacionales
Circulación/Nivel: | Internacional - --
Fecha corriente: | 11/11/2019
Fecha de la última actualización: | 01/06/2020
Autoria: | MONDRAGÓN-ANCELMO, J.; GARCÍA HERNÁNDEZ, P.; ROJO RUBIO, R.; DOMÍNGUEZ VARA, I.A.; DEL CAMPO, M.; NAPOLITANO, F.
Afiliación: | JAIME MONDRAGÓN-ANCELMO, Centro Universitario Temascaltepec, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca, México; PATRICIA GARCÍA HERNÁNDEZ, Centro Universitario Temascaltepec , Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México , Toluca , México.; ROLANDO ROJO RUBIO ., Centro Universitario Temascaltepec , Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México , Toluca , México; IGNACIO ARTURO DOMÍNGUEZ VARA, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia , Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México , Toluca , México.; MARCIA DEL CAMPO GIGENA, INIA (Instituto Nacional de Investigación Agropecuaria), Uruguay; FABIO NAPOLITANO, Scuola di Scienze Agrarie, Forestali, Alimentari ed Ambientali , Università degli Studi della Basilicata , Potenza , Italy.
Título: | Small Flocks Show Higher Levels of Welfare in Mexican Semi-Intensive Sheep Farming Systems.
Año de publicación: | 2020
Fuente/Imprenta: | Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science, 2 July 2020, Volume 23, Issue 3, Pages 348-355. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10888705.2019.1618303
DOI: | 10.1080/10888705.2019.1618303
Idioma: | Inglés

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Article history: Published online: 06 Jun 2019. Acknowledgments:Research funded by Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (Grant 3949/2015SF). Thanks are due to the sheep
farmers participating to the study for their hospitality and the provision of information and data.

Contenido: | ABSTRACT: In order to assess the level of sheep welfare in small traditional farms as compared with farms of increased size we evaluated several animal-based parameters and applied a modified Animal Needs Index (ANI) protocol in farms located in the North-East of the country. We selected ten sheep farms: 5 farms had less than 20 ewes per flock (Group L20), whereas 5 farms had more than 20 ewes per flock (Group M20). Based on the recordings performed using the ANI scheme Group L20 constantly showed higher scores as compared with Group M20. In Group M20 a higher proportion of animals was affected by skin and wool damages, low body condition, tail mutilation, ocular discharge, nasal discharge, diarrhoea (P < 0.05) and lameness (P < 0.01). We observed a higher percentage of non-anaemic animals in group L20 and a higher percentage of anaemic animals in Group M20 (P < 0.01). Although based on a small sample, our results showed that several animal-based measures were able to discriminate the two groups of farms with higher levels of animal welfare detected in small flocks.
Palabras-Clave: | ANIMAL NEEDS INDEX; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMAL-BASED MEASURES; AWIN; SHEEP.
Thesagro: | BIENESTAR ANIMAL.
Categoría del tema: | L01 Ganadería
Registro original: | INIA Tacuarembó (TBO)
Ejemplares: | TBO - (103068-1) - PXI - AP - DD -  -  -  - DIS