Published: 7 March 2025

Special Issue 03 Innovating for animal welfare in experimental facilities: Foreword

Carole Caranta

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

The cognition, cornerstone of animals’ emotions and welfare

Alain Boissy

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Regulations on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes

Françoise Medale, Elodie Guettier

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Who does what: France's national system for the ethical supervision and protection of animals used for scientific purposes

Françoise Medale

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

National authorities on the use of animals for scientific purposes

Françoise Medale, Hervé Juin, Olivier Sandra

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

The MESR AFiS unit

Françoise Medale

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Overview of resources to support the use of animals for scientific purposes within the regulatory framework

Françoise Medale, Olivier Sandra

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

The National Committee for Ethical Reflection on Animal Experimentation (CNREEA)

Pierre Mormede

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

How an ethics committee works in animal experimentation

CEEA19

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Missions and actions of the French 3Rs center (FC3R)

Doris-Lou Demy, Stéphane Dorschner , Susana Gomez, Marc Le Bert, Laurence Le Deu, Véronique Legrand, Athanassia Sotiropoulos

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Organisation of the supervision of the use of animals for scientific purposes at INRAE

Elodie Guettier

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Assessing the welfare of animals used for scientific purpose: an improvement approach that goes beyond the 3R

Alain

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Co-design of animal observation and welfare assessment tools

Elodie Guettier, Nathalie Le Floc'h

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Development of a daily assessment grid for poultry welfare

Azélie Hazard, Cécile Arnould

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Daily monitoring of cattle welfare on an INRAE experimental farm: use of observation grids

Sarah Barbey, Lydiane Aubé, Annabelle Bachelet, Yves Carbonnier, Loïc Leloup, Olivier Troquier, Marie-Madeleine Richard

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

In-depth assessment of cattle welfare in INRAE experimental units: the Welfare Quality® protocol

Lydiane Aubé, Marie Madeleine Mialon, Sarah Barbey, Raphaëlle Botreau

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

PIGLOW, an application for assessing animal welfare in pig farming

Stéphane Ferchaud, Grégory Khélifi, Élodie Merlot, Valérie Courboulay, Evelien Graat, Franck Tuyttens, Anne Collin

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

An introduction to the use Deep Learning to monitor animal behaviour

Mathieu Bonneau

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Development of image-based chicken detection algorithms for monitoring farm activity indicators

Pauline Créach, Sylvain L'Hermite , Pascal Galliot, Didier Concordet

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Use of commercial non-invasive sensors for daily monitoring of dairy cattle on experimental farms

Mathieu Bouchon, Nathalie Thollon, Dorothée Ledoux, Bernard Sepchat

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Listening to the pigs

Céline Tallet

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Animal welfare taken into account in Cati SICPA developments

Jean-François Bompa, Alexandre Journaux, François Laperruque, Romain Lardy, Sophie Normant, Bernadette Urban

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Enriching the living environment

Céline Tallet, Violaine Colson

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Enrichment of pig’s living environment

Céline Tallet

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Environmental enrichment in fish

Violaine Colson

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

P3R rethinks goats’ environmental enrichments

Morgane Audiguier

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Raising rabbits outdoors: what's new?

Laurence Fortun-Lamothe, David Savietto, Valérie Fillon

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Refining experimental procedures: the example of rumen juice sampling in sheep

Sébastien Douls

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Unrestrained blood sampling in pigs

Stéphane Ferchaud, Grégory Khélifi, Tony Terrasson

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

With BIRDe (Bird Individual Ration Dispenser-electronic), you no longer need cages to know what your chickens are eating.

Elodie Guettier, Sandrine Grasteau

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Trials on a method for measuring cortisol in bovine hair

Mélissa Vauris

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Training animals to cooperate for everyday tasks and care on farms and in experiments

Alice De Boyer Des Roches, Hélène Roche

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Setting up training for ponies at UE PAO

Fabrice Reigner

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Training billy goats to collect semen by operant conditioning using a dummy

Karine Boissard, Emilie Weyers, Alice Fatet, Benjamin Rouet, Isabelle Brasseur

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

The importance of a positive relationship between trainer and sheep for implementing an individual training protocol

Camille Pluchot, Didier Dubreuil, Céline Parias, Scott A. Love

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Focus on a collaborative work sequence between an animal experiment technician and a scientific team.

Coralie Maurin

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Daily work in an experimental unit, dedicated to animal welfare

Amandine Cauchi, Nelly Muller, Eloïse Delamaire

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

The 4th R: Rehoming, Rehabilitation, Retirement

Véronique Deiss, Valérie Fillon, Hervé Juin

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities

Special Issue 03 Innovating for animal welfare in experimental facilities: Conclusion

Muriel Vayssier-Taussat

No. spécial 03 NOV'AE (2025): Innovating for the well-being of animals in experimental facilities