Comportamiento materno y bienestar de la coneja doméstica y silvestre y su camada

Redondo, Pedro González; González‐Mariscal, Gabriela; López, M. Gutiérrez; Fernández-Carmona, J.; Finzi, Alessandro; Villagra, Aranzazu

doi:10.12706/itea.2015.021

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“…On some visits, we observed full-term aborted fetuses (>9 to 10%, Table 3), parturitions outside the nest, and the birth of weak kits. González-Redondo et al [62] indicated parturitions outside the nest in primiparous does, or kits abandoned in the nest, coinciding with low temperatures. Heat stress (>30 • C) makes kindlings and kit survival difficult [8].…”

Section: Other Reproductive Disordersmentioning

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Reproductive Diseases in Farmed Rabbit Does

Rosell¹,

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Animals

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In this study, we determined the occurrence of reproductive diseases in does on 1373 visited farms in Spain and Portugal, between 1994 and 2019. The retrospective information obtained was entered in a database classified as follows: apparent infertility (≤70% pregnancy rate), abortions (≥2% of serviced does), high fetal death risk at parturition (≥10%) or dystocia, amongst others. Infertility was the reason for 181 visits. The median of prevalence of apparent infertility in these cases was 35% (minimum to maximum: 25–90%) and the mean, 37.4%. We performed a prospective study to determine risk factors at the individual and farm level, with a second database corresponding to 2014–2019. We carried out pregnancy checks, assessed sanitary status and body condition, and recorded the age of 17,297 rebred lactating does on 142 farms. The median size of the farms was 800 does, and the examined cohorts, 350 does. Predisposing risk factors for infertility were observed: e.g., mastitis had an effect. During the 5-year study, we made a third database with the results from 190,508 does palpated by producers in a subset of 134 farms. In this case, the median of the prevalence of apparent infertility was 14.5% (minimum to maximum: 4.1–50%), which could be considered baseline occurrence when monitoring the theriogenology of rabbit doe farms. Reproductive rhythm was an enabling risk factor: does serviced ≤25 d postpartum were less fertile than at ≥32 d. We made a database with the body condition score (BCS) on a linear scale from 1 (emaciated) to 9 (obese). The pregnancy rate (PR) of underweight and borderline does (4/9) was 73.1%. The PR of overweight and borderline does (6/9) was 82.6% and those classified with a mean BCS (5/9): PR = 79.3%. We may infer that the optimum BCS for reproduction is 6/9, rather than 5/9. Some changes in female rabbit health and husbandry to improve reproductive performance and welfare are highlighted.

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Section: Other Reproductive Disordersmentioning

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Reproductive Diseases in Farmed Rabbit Does

Rosell¹,

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Carbajo

et al. 2020

Animals

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“…Rabbit domestication is very recent and there have not been many changes as compared to the wild rabbit, so the behaviour of domestic rabbit is still very similar to wild rabbit, and the biological needs are the same so, under commercial conditions, where specific behaviours or social relationships are impaired, there could arise a welfare problem [6]. Rabbits are social and gregarious animals, and, in wild conditions, they live in groups with more females than bucks (1-4 males and 1-9 females), except around giving birth, when they separate from the rest of the group: the dominant doe uses the common burrow and the rest of the females have to build their nest in different places [7] by mixing their own hair with grass or any other material they can find. The rabbits spend much time resting with conspecifics and in close contact, and fights are produced mainly by hierarchies [8].…”

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Housing and Rabbit Welfare in Breeding Does

García¹

2021

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Animal welfare is a rising concern in livestock production and to assess the welfare state of an animal, it is needed to consider health, behaviour and emotions. Housing conditions and management normally impair animal welfare at different levels, so developing housing systems and management practices that imply a high level of animal welfare by preserving productive results is a need. Rabbit cages have to be improved in terms of space, enrichment and materials used to promote better conditions, and several alternatives are under evaluation such as increasing available space, providing animals with elevated platforms and hiding spaces, making available gnawing materials or changing cage materials. Moving from individual to collective housing systems to enhance social interaction is also being tested. Most of these alternatives have provided some steps towards better housing and management conditions for rabbits, while some of them have demonstrated to create more problems and have been abandoned. There is still a long way to go on this research topic.

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“…Esto ocurre especialmente en la especie cunícola, para la que "intrínsecamente se relaciona el estar en una jaula con falta de bienestar", como han señalado algunos expertos. En efecto, las jaulas individuales de alambre galvanizado constituyen el alojamiento habitual de la coneja y su camada hasta el destete, tanto en la producción de carne en granjas intensivas como en la mayoría de los núcleos de autoconsumo o en cunicultura alternativa (González-Redondo et al, 2015). Aunque no se han encontrado indicadores de graves problemas de bienestar de los animales, este modelo de producción ha sido cuestionado porque la estancia en la jaula individual limita los comportamientos de locomoción y de contacto social reconocidos en los conejos silvestres, y habitualmente se hace la comparación directa entre ambos grupos, como si la adaptación y la habituación de los animales a su entorno consecuentes a la domesticación no hubieran existido, lo cual es erróneo (Carneiro et al, 2014).…”

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Bienestar y resultados zootécnicos en conejas de aptitud carne. Revisión bibliográfica

López¹,

Fras²,

Amorós³

2020

ITEA

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El manejo de reproductoras en grupo o semigrupo, con objeto de mejorar su bienestar, proporciona solo un ligero enriquecimiento del comportamiento locomotor y social, y algunos resultados zootécnicos próximos pero estadísticamente inferiores a los obtenidos en jaula individual, sin conseguir así compensar los resultados negativos del método: mayor mortalidad de gazapos lactantes, estrés, agresividad, heridas y mortalidad de las madres, unido a la complejidad, tiempo y trabajo requeridos por este manejo. Enriquecer la jaula individual mediante plataforma no deteriora los resultados zootécnicos, permite incrementar la movilidad y el repertorio comportamental de las conejas (saltar, erguirse), aumentando además la superficie disponible, pero empeora la higiene y aumentan los problemas sanitarios (pododermatitis, fracturas). Reposapatas y elementos para roer, así como refinar el enriquecimiento en las jaulas estándar, parece una vía útil para mejorar el bienestar mientras se profundiza en la gestión de la respuesta agresiva, así como en la idoneidad y en el modelo de grupo en las reproductoras de carne.

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Comportamiento materno y bienestar de la coneja doméstica y silvestre y su camada

Cited by 5 publications

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Reproductive Diseases in Farmed Rabbit Does

Reproductive Diseases in Farmed Rabbit Does

Housing and Rabbit Welfare in Breeding Does

Bienestar y resultados zootécnicos en conejas de aptitud carne. Revisión bibliográfica

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