Should the contribution of one additional lame cow depend on how many other cows on the farm are lame?

Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO)

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Should the contribution of one additional lame cow depend on how many other cows on the farm are lame? / Sandøe, Peter; Forkman, Björn; Hakansson, Franziska; Andreasen, Sine Norlander; Nøhr, Rikke; Denwood, Matt; Lund, Thomas Bøker.

In: Animals, Vol. 7, No. 12, 96, 12.2017.

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Harvard

Sandøe, P, Forkman, B, Hakansson, F, Andreasen, SN, Nøhr, R, Denwood, M & Lund, TB 2017, 'Should the contribution of one additional lame cow depend on how many other cows on the farm are lame?', Animals, vol. 7, no. 12, 96. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani7120096

APA

Sandøe, P., Forkman, B., Hakansson, F., Andreasen, S. N., Nøhr, R., Denwood, M., & Lund, T. B. (2017). Should the contribution of one additional lame cow depend on how many other cows on the farm are lame? Animals, 7(12), [96]. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani7120096

Vancouver

Sandøe P, Forkman B, Hakansson F, Andreasen SN, Nøhr R, Denwood M et al. Should the contribution of one additional lame cow depend on how many other cows on the farm are lame? Animals. 2017 Dec;7(12). 96. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani7120096

Author

Sandøe, Peter ; Forkman, Björn ; Hakansson, Franziska ; Andreasen, Sine Norlander ; Nøhr, Rikke ; Denwood, Matt ; Lund, Thomas Bøker. / Should the contribution of one additional lame cow depend on how many other cows on the farm are lame?. In: Animals. 2017 ; Vol. 7, No. 12.

Bibtex

@article{1d16822188274dcb97de11ca96e8402f,

title = "Should the contribution of one additional lame cow depend on how many other cows on the farm are lame?",

abstract = "Welfare Quality{\textregistered} proposes a system for aggregation according to which the total welfare score for a group of animals is a non-linear effect of the prevalence of welfare scores across the individuals within the group. Three assumptions serve to justify this: (1) experts do not follow a linear reasoning when they assess a welfare problem; (2) it serves to prevent compensation (severe welfare problems hidden by scoring well on other aspects of welfare); (3) experts agree on the weight of different welfare measures. We use two sources of data to examine these assumptions: animal welfare data from 44 Danish dairy farms with Danish Holstein Friesian cows, and data from a questionnaire study with a convenience sample of 307 experts in animal welfare, of which we received responses from over 50%. Our main results were: (1) the total group-level welfare score as assigned by experts is a non-linear function of the individual animal welfare states within the group; (2) the WQ system does not prevent what experts perceive as unacceptable compensation; (3) the level of agreement among experts appears to vary across measures. Our findings give rise to concerns about the proposed aggregation system offered by WQ.",

keywords = "Aggregation, Animal welfare, Expert perception, Lameness, Welfare assessment, Welfare quality{\textregistered}",

author = "Peter Sand{\o}e and Bj{\"o}rn Forkman and Franziska Hakansson and Andreasen, {Sine Norlander} and Rikke N{\o}hr and Matt Denwood and Lund, {Thomas B{\o}ker}",

year = "2017",

month = dec,

doi = "10.3390/ani7120096",

language = "English",

volume = "7",

journal = "Animals",

issn = "2076-2615",

publisher = "MDPI",

number = "12",