Abstract
The concept of animal welfare has been widely studied and discussed in recent years. This is a science, which seeks an improvement in the quality of life of animals, ensuring that they have the right to their 5 basic freedoms respected. Animal welfare practices seek to have animals express their natural behavior, even when they are in captivity, ensuring their physical and psychological health. Such techniques help in the adaptation of the animal to the environment, especially in captive animals and in breeding. There is a direct relationship between the implementation of animal welfare practices and the ability of them to adapt and have a good quality of life in the environment in which it was inserted. The growing increase in ornamental bird breeding and as pets has revealed the need to study and ensure welfare practices in the rearing of these animals. One of the techniques used to ensure animal welfare is the implementation of different types of environmental enrichments. Environmental enrichment seeks through different techniques and materials to provide more attractive and stimulating environments to animals, allowing interaction between animals and animal-environment, enabling them to enjoy and explore the environment, optimizing the available spaces, providing opportunities for the development of behaviors and natural abilities of the species, reducing the stress caused by space limitation and absence of stimuli. The objective of this work was to relate animal welfare in the implementation of environmental enrichment in two breeding stake of geese and mallards, one for ornamental and domestic purposes, birds being reared as pets. In particular describe the creation, report the implementation of three types of environmental enrichment: food, physical and social, and response of birds after the implementation of this technique of animal welfare promotion. The results of the implementation of food, physical and social environmental enrichment, to improve the well-being of birds, were verified in both breedings, obtaining a positive result. There was an improvement in the behavior of the animals, which is closer to the natural in both groups, attesting to improvement in quality of life and providing physical and psychological well-being to birds.
Highlights
The concept of Animal Welfare can be understood in different ways among people, it is entirely linked with the quality of life of the animal
There is a direct relationship between the implementation of animal welfare practices and the www.nucleodoconhecimento.com.br
The domestic breeding, the birds were reared as pet, was composed of 7 animals, between females and males, of these 4 mallards (3 mallards of Beijing and mallards Rouen) and 2 geese (1 African and 1 Chinese Signer), which lived in the same enclosure, of approximately 60m2
Summary
The concept of Animal Welfare can be understood in different ways among people, it is entirely linked with the quality of life of the animal.The theme is already widely used in pet animals, currently there are discussions about the area of animal production (BENETTON, 2017; ALVES et al, 2007; CARVALHO et al, 2017). The concept of Animal Welfare can be understood in different ways among people, it is entirely linked with the quality of life of the animal. Consumers have sought to acquire products from places where there are animal welfare practices, increasing concern about the subject. Animals are sentient beings, are able to feel emotions like happiness and fear, so ensuring www.nucleodoconhecimento.com.br. Animal welfare and environmental enrichment in the domestic breeding and ornamental rearing of geese and mallards well-being in their breeding is essential in order to give a better quality of life to animals and rid them of any kind of suffering. In conservation creations “ex situ” there are studies of animal welfare practices in different species. One of the ways to ensure the welfare of these animals is through environmental enrichment
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