Bienestar animal: conceptos, definición y las cinco libertades

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Archivos Latinoamericanos de Producción Animal (Arch. Latinoam. Prod. Anim.) www.alpa.org.ve/ojs.index/php ISSN 1022-1301. 2013. Archivos Latinoamericanos de Producción Animal. Vol. 21, Núm. 2:107-118 107 Indicadores de bienestar animal en especies productivas: una revisión crítica J. P. Damián 1 y R. Ungerfeld Departamento de Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Recibido Julio 07, 2012. Aceptado Septiembre 09, 2012. Farm animal welfare indicators: a critical review ABSTRACT. The aim of this review was to analyze and discuss the use of different indicators of animal welfare (AW) in farm animals. Practices such as castration, tail docking, weaning, transport and slaughter induce a stress response, often accompanied by pain and injuries. This can affect the productive results, both in quantity and quality of the product, and have a negative impact on AW. In this review we discuss a number of indicators of AW and propose that a combination of them should be used to assess AW in farm animals. Many indicators of AW have been validated for certain types of handling and production systems, mainly in European countries. However, since ...