Search Results - "Lea, Jim M."
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Relationship between sunlight and range use of commercial free-range hens in Australia
Published in PloS one (31-05-2022)“…In Australia, summer brings intense, bright sunlight with high ultraviolet (UV) radiation and hot temperatures, which might impact free-range hens' ranging…”
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Virtual Fencing Is Comparable to Electric Tape Fencing for Cattle Behavior and Welfare
Published in Frontiers in veterinary science (11-12-2019)“…Virtual fencing technology restricts animal movement via communicated signals without physical boundaries. Specifically, the eShepherd™ automated virtual…”
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Analysis of Cattle Social Transitional Behaviour: Attraction and Repulsion
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (18-09-2020)“…Understanding social interactions in livestock groups could improve management practices, but this can be difficult and time-consuming using traditional…”
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Virtual Fencing Technology Excludes Beef Cattle from an Environmentally Sensitive Area
Published in Animals (Basel) (20-06-2020)“…The eShepherd® virtual fencing system being commercialized for cattle has the potential to exclude cattle from environmentally sensitive areas. Animals are…”
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Virtual Fence Responses Are Socially Facilitated in Beef Cattle
Published in Frontiers in veterinary science (30-09-2020)“…Group-living can be socially advantageous where the behavior of individuals may be modified by group members through socially facilitative processes. Virtual…”
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Temporary Exclusion of Cattle from a Riparian Zone Using Virtual Fencing Technology
Published in Animals (Basel) (22-12-2018)“…Grazing cattle can both negatively and positively impact riparian zones, dependent on controlled grazing management. Virtual fencing technology, using collar…”
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Commercial Free-Range Laying Hens' Preferences for Shelters with Different Sunlight Filtering Percentages
Published in Animals (Basel) (31-01-2022)“…Extreme sunlight might be aversive to free-range laying hens, discouraging them from going outside. Range enrichment with artificial shelters may protect hens…”
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Tech-Savvy Beef Cattle? How Heifers Respond to Moving Virtual Fence Lines
Published in Animals (Basel) (18-09-2017)“…Global Positioning System (GPS)-based virtual fences offer the potential to improve the management of grazing animals. Prototype collar devices utilising…”
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Impacts of Rearing Enrichments on Pullets' and Free-Range Hens' Positive Behaviors across the Flock Cycle
Published in Animals (Basel) (23-01-2022)“…Enrichment during the indoor rearing of pullets destined for free-range systems may optimize pullet development including increasing motivated natural…”
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Beef Cattle Preference and Usage of Environmental Enrichments Provided Simultaneously in a Pasture-Based Environment
Published in Animals (Basel) (15-12-2022)“…Environmental enrichment can improve livestock welfare through increasing environmental complexity to promote a greater range of natural behaviours. However,…”
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Automated Virtual Fencing Can Effectively Contain Sheep: Field Trials and Prospects
Published in Animals (Basel) (10-02-2023)“…Virtual fencing technology uses on-animal devices to communicate boundaries via a warning audio tone and electrical pulse signals. There is currently limited…”
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Relationship between Rectal Temperature and Vaginal Temperature in Grazing Bos taurus Heifers
Published in Animals (Basel) (18-09-2018)“…This study evaluated the relationship between rectal temperature (T , °C) and vaginal temperature (T , °C) in grazing heifers, to develop an understanding of…”
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Behavior and welfare impacts of water provision via misting in commercial Pekin ducks
Published in Journal of animal science (01-12-2022)“…Ducks will access water to maintain feather condition and exhibit natural water-related behaviors such as wet preening. Providing water to ducks commercially…”
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Anxiety influences attention bias but not flight speed and crush score in beef cattle
Published in Applied animal behaviour science (01-08-2018)“…•Pharmacologically induced anxiety is not related to flight speed and crush score tests in cattle.•Cattle in an increased state of anxiety demonstrate…”
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Virtual fencing of cattle using an automated collar in a feed attractant trial
Published in Applied animal behaviour science (01-03-2018)“…•12 heifers tested with an automated experimental virtual fencing collar prototype.•Audio and electrical stimuli were delivered based on animal location and…”
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Preference of beef cattle for feedlot or pasture environments
Published in Applied animal behaviour science (01-05-2013)“…Intensive feedlot finishing is perceived to affect welfare because cattle cannot perform normal behaviours evident in pasture environments. The objective of…”
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Increasing mud levels in a feedlot influences beef cattle behaviours but not preference for feedlot or pasture environments
Published in Applied animal behaviour science (01-09-2022)“…Public scrutiny surrounds the intensive feedlot finishing of beef cattle, likely due to the assumption that cattle cannot perform their full repertoire of…”
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Relationship between sunlight and range use of commercial free-range hens in Australia
Published in PloS one (01-01-2022)“…In Australia, summer brings intense, bright sunlight with high ultraviolet (UV) radiation and hot temperatures, which might impact free-range hens' ranging…”
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Virtual Fencing Technology Excludes Beef Cattle from an Environmentally Sensitive Area
Published in Animals (Basel) (01-06-2020)“…The eShepherd[R] virtual fencing system being commercialized for cattle has the potential to exclude cattle from environmentally sensitive areas. Animals are…”
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