Ankaj Thakur

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Which welfare component should be given more weightage, is it Good feeding or Good health during welfare assessment for migratory goats?

Good feeding and health are the important components for welfare assessment of migratory goats. But which components should be given more emphasis if you have to scored them out of 100 points?

22 July 2020 6,455 3 View

Why the productive performance, reproductive performance and management practices are not included in welfare assessment protocol for livestock ?

Animal productive performance, reproductive performance and management practices are recorded separately during on farm welfare assessment. However, the indicators from these can also be included...

02 May 2020 9,706 22 View

How to record behaviour of goat in free range conditions (ingestive, social and sexual behaviour)?

Which is the best way to record behaviour of goats in free range conditions , is it observation or through camera recordings? Due to high cost of other behavioural recording inputs ( GIS collar or...

19 December 2019 2,117 4 View

What protocols do we have for welfare assessment of Goat?

I want to know what protocol we can use for welfare assessment of goats besides ANI (Animal Need Index), Muri protocol and AWIN protocol

12 December 2019 4,114 0 View

What indicators we can use to assess the good feeding (one of the five freedoms of animal welfare) in migratory or pastoral goat production?

What parameter we can use to assess the feeding welfare of goats besides Body condition scoring, Rumen fill scoring in migratory or pastoral production

09 November 2019 4,412 11 View

Which Thermal imaging camera will be best to use for livestock in field conditions?

We are planning to use thermal imaging for goats reared under extensive system

01 October 2019 6,923 4 View

How to assess human animal relationship in pastoral or transhumant livestock?

Can we use the Latency to the first contact test and Flight distance test that are mentioned in the AWIN protocol to access the H-A relationship in pastoral/transhumance livestock

08 April 2019 9,150 16 View

How much time it will take by the individual housed calf to achieve social stability , when mixed with group housed calves ?

I want to know that how much time (average in days) a individual house calf will take to get accustomed or achieve social stability, when it is introduced to newly group penmates

22 January 2019 7,216 0 View

How to measure animal behaviour in smallholder production system?

Traditionally we use resource based criteria (Housing facilities, feeding facilites) for evaluating the welfare of animals in smallholder production system. How can we use behaviour for assessing...

27 July 2018 209 3 View

I have two doubts regarding Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

1.If we have many principal components (eg more than 5), all having eigen values more than one. Can we reduce the data in to two principal components intentionally? 2. Can we consider a variable...

01 January 1970 1,138 1 View