Comfort and Welfare

PODCASTS

• Animal Welfare Mini Series | Episode 1 | Defining Welfare and Pursuing Improvement
• Animal Welfare Mini Series | Episode 2 | Addressing Issues Today to Prepare for Tomorrow
• Animal Welfare Mini Series | Episode 3 | Win-Win Opportunities in Welfare
• Animal Welfare Mini Series | Episode 4 | Lameness, Housing, and Public Perception
• Animal Health Mini Series | Episode 5 | Influencing On-Farm Change to Improve Welfare
• Animal Health Mini Series | Episode 6 | Calf Weaning
• Animal Welfare Mini Series | Episode 7 | Calf Feeding to Improve Welfare

TRADE PUBLICATIONS

• Research Review: Can access to an exercise area improve your cows’ welfare?

• Research Review: Using technology to improve locomotion assessments in dairy cows

• 25 bougies pour le Programme de bien-être animal (in French only)

• Conception et évaluation d'un enclos d'exercice extérieur pour les vaches en stabulation entravée (in French only)

• How do cow longevity, profitability and welfare complement each other?

• Nouvelles avancées de la chaire sur la vie durable des bovins laitiers : miser sur le confort (in French only)

• Update on the industrial research chair in the sustainable life of dairy cattle

ANIMATED VIDEOS

• Exercise Access and Affective States in Dairy Cows

• Keeping Profitable Dairy Cows in the Herd

• Managing the bedding for more comfort

• Cow comfort at L. Roy inc. Farm

• Opportunity for movement 

WEBINARS

• Housing, Movement, and Engineering for Dairy Cow Welfare

• New biofiltered outdoor exercise area for dairy cattle by Sébastien Fournel (in French only)

• Dairy cattle welfare in Canada: Where we've been and where we're going

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

• Ruiz-González, A., Álvarez-Chávez, E., Carranza-Díaz, A.K., Dupont-Fortin, B., Palacios, J.H., Godbout, S., Fournel, S. 2024. Providing indoor and outdoor exercise to dairy cows : Assessment of effluent properties and gas emissions. Biosystems Engineering 238: 157-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2024.01.011  

• Aigueperse, N., Boyer, V., Vasseur, E. 2023. How outing conditions relate to the motivation of movement-restricted cattle to access and outdoor exercise yard. Behavioural Processes 213: 104957. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2023.104957

• Álvarez-Chávez, E., Godbout, S., Généreux, M., Côté, C., Rousseau, A.N., Fournel, S. 2024. Treatment of cow manure from exercise pens: A laboratory-scale study of the effect of air injection on conventional and alternative biofilters. Journal of Environmental Management 350 :119637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119637

• Alvarez-Chavez, E., Godbout, S., Brassard, P., Rousseau, A. N. & Fournel, S. 2022. Performance of various filtering media for the treatment of cow manure from exercise pens – A laboratory study. Water, 14(12): 1912. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14121912

• Tonooka, J.M., Vasseur, E., Villettaz Robichaud, M. 2022. Graduate Student Literature Review: What is known about the eliminative behaviors of dairy cattle? J. Dairy Sci. 105(7): 6307-6317. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2021-20651

• Aigueperse, N., Vasseur, E. 2021. Providing and Outdoor Exercise Area Affects Tie-Stall Cow Reactivity and Human-Cow Relations. Frontiers in Veterinary Science 7: 597607. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2020.597607

• Marina Von Keyserlingk: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UATEwywAAAAJ

• Dan Weary: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=QEKqGDEAAAAJ