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dc.contributor.authorPhythian, Clare Joan
dc.contributor.authorMichalopoulou, Eleni
dc.contributor.authorDuncan, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-12T15:00:23Z
dc.date.available2019-08-12T15:00:23Z
dc.date.created2019-08-07T16:05:00Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn2077-0472
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2607988
dc.description.abstractSixteen animal-based indicators of sheep welfare, previously selected by a stakeholder panel, and based on the Farm Animal Welfare Council (FAWC) Five Freedoms, were assessed in terms of the level of inter-observer agreement achieved during on-farm testing. Eight observers independently tested the 16 indicators on 1158 sheep from 38 farms in England and Wales. Overall inter-observer agreement was evaluated by Fleiss’s kappa (κ), and the pair-wise agreement of each observer was compared to a ‘test standard’ observer (TSO). Inter-observer assessments of the welfare indicators; dental abnormality, cleanliness score (ventral abdomen), mastitis, tail length, skin lesions, body condition scoring and lameness produced ‘fair to good’ levels of agreement (0.40 < κ < 0.75) and joint swellings had ‘excellent’ levels of agreement (κ ≥ 0.75). The very low apparent prevalence (<0.8%) of sheep with specific outcomes such as pruritis, wool loss, myiasis, thin body condition, diffuse or severe skin lesions limited kappa analysis for these indicators. Overall, findings suggest that observers of differing experience, training and occupation were reliable in assessing key animal-based indicators of sheep health and welfarenb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleAssessing the Validity of Animal-Based Indicators of Sheep Health and Welfare: Do Observers Agree?nb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.volume9nb_NO
dc.source.journalAgriculturenb_NO
dc.source.issue5nb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/agriculture9050088
dc.identifier.cristin1714706
cristin.unitcode192,16,3,0
cristin.unitnameInstitutt for produksjonsdyrmedisin
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