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With their highly sensitive olfactory system, the behaviour and physiology of mice are not only influenced by the scents of conspecifics and other species, but also by many other chemicals in the environment. The constraints of laboratory housing limit a mouse's capacity to avoid aversive odours that could be present in the environment. Potentially odorous items routinely used for husbandry pro...

This paper reviews the procedures and protocols necessary for the development of a practical programme for the assessment and implementation of animal welfare on farms and in other commercial situations. An effective programme must incorporate measures of both husbandry and welfare. Most current systems are based almost entirely on measures of husbandry provision, e.g. resources and management....

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As the basis of fine breeding management and animal husbandry insurance, individual recognition dairy cattle is an important issue in field. Due to limitations traditional method cow identification, such as being easy drop falsify, it can no longer meet needs modern intelligent pasture management. In recent years, with rise computer vision technology, deep learning has developed rapidly field f...