Mateus José Rodrigues Paranhos da Costa

TL;DR: Encouraging results showed that the application of the improved pre-slaughter handling practices reduced aggressive handling and the incidence of bruised carcasses at slaughter in cattle and pigs in Brazil, Chile and Uruguay.

TL;DR: Allonursing was unrelated to kinship or reciprocal relationships among the cows, and was associated with a lack of maternal experience in young cows and apparent milk theft by hungry calves whose mothers were not providing them with sufficient milk.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used qualitative behavior assessment (QBA) method as indicator of cattle temperament under field conditions, evaluating its associations with four other traditional methods and weight gain, including flight speed test (FS, in m/s), visual scores of movement in the crush (MOV), crush score (CS), temperament score (TS), and the qualitative behaviour assessment method by using a list of 12 behavioral based adjectives as descriptors of temperament.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the potential impacts of training in good practices of cattle handling on stockpeople's attitudes and behavior, and on cattle welfare, in Brazilian beef farms and found that non-trained farms had the poorest quality of handling and more undesirable animal behaviors during handling.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the rectal temperature, respiratory frequency and total evaporative heat loss rate in Corriedale sheep under three air temperatures, aiming a better comprehension of thermoregulation mechanisms of these animals.