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M B M Bracke

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Bracke M, Boumans I, Nijland H, Bokkers E
Animal . 2023 Jan; 17(2):100694. PMID: 36621112
The current food system is not sustainable. Circular agriculture aims to save the environment and produce food sustainably by closing nutrient cycles, possibly without improving animal welfare. This paper proposes...
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Botreau R, Bracke M, Perny P, Butterworth A, Capdeville J, van Reenen C, et al.
Animal . 2012 Mar; 1(8):1188-97. PMID: 22444863
The overall assessment of animal welfare is a multicriterion evaluation problem that needs a constructive strategy to compound information produced by many measures. The construction depends on specific features such...
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Botreau R, Bonde M, Butterworth A, Perny P, Bracke M, Capdeville J, et al.
Animal . 2012 Mar; 1(8):1179-87. PMID: 22444862
Several systems have been proposed for the overall assessment of animal welfare at the farm level for the purpose of advising farmers or assisting public decision-making. They are generally based...
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Bracke M, Edwards S, Metz J, Noordhuizen J, Algers B
Animal . 2012 Mar; 2(7):1061-72. PMID: 22443707
Decision-making on animal welfare issues requires a synthesis of information. For the assessment of farm animal welfare based on scientific information collected in a database, a methodology called 'semantic modelling'...
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Zonderland J, Schepers F, Bracke M, Den Hartog L, Kemp B, Spoolder H
Animal . 2012 Mar; 5(5):767-75. PMID: 22439999
Little is known about the characteristics of biters and victims before the appearance of a tail-biting outbreak in groups of pigs. This study aimed to characterise biters and victims (according...
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Zonderland J, Kemp B, Bracke M, Den Hartog L, Spoolder H
Animal . 2012 Mar; 5(4):601-7. PMID: 22439956
Conflicting hypotheses exist about the contribution of individual pigs to the development of a tail-biting outbreak, but there is limited quantitative information to support or dismiss them. This study aims...
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Bracke M, Metz J, Spruijt B, Schouten W
J Anim Sci . 2002 Aug; 80(7):1835-45. PMID: 12162650
This paper examines the validity of a model that is embedded in a computer-based decision support system to assess the welfare status of pregnant sows in housing and management systems....
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Bracke M, Spruijt B, Metz J, Schouten W
J Anim Sci . 2002 Aug; 80(7):1819-34. PMID: 12162649
The problem of how to objectively assess the overall welfare status of animals under farming conditions has contributed to an ongoing debate that has hampered actual decision making on animal...