Acute or Short-Term Challenges to Animal Welfare

Abstract

The various challenges to animal welfare can be roughly divided into acute challenges (such as branding, dehorning) that last for only a short period of time (seconds, minutes, or hours) and which consequently affect the animals' welfare mostly for a relatively short period of time, and chronic challenges (such as the method of housing) that last considerably longer (weeks, months, or years) and that consequently affect the animals for much longer. In this chapter, we discuss short-term procedures.