163072 20251009133841.0 doi 10.1016/j.cvfa.2025.06.004 sideral 145583 ART-2025-145583 eng Edwards-Callaway, Lily N. Considerations for the Welfare of Ruminants During Transport 2025 Introduction: Despite efforts to reduce stress via best management practices, protocols, and training, transportation is still one of the most stressful events in an animal’s life. 1 Livestock can be exposed to many different stressors during transportation such as handling events, social mixing, exposure to new facilities, and the trailer environment. Although it is evident through various training programs and animal care guidelines created and followed by industry stakeholders that ensuring livestock welfare during this time is a critical component of livestock production, it is often difficult to control all associated variables. Numerous studies have demonstrated that many transportation factors (eg, trailer density, driver experience, and transport duration 2 ) and logistic operations 3 can impact livestock welfare. Given the high volume of livestock transported throughout their life, from farms to feedlots, auction markets, and slaughter plants, the magnitude of impact that transportation has is substantial... info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Miranda de la Lama, Genaro C. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-6848-1010 Meléndez, Daniela M. Schwartzkopf-Genswein, Karen S. 2008 700 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Produc.Animal Cienc.Ali. Área Producción Animal (2025), [14 pp.] Vet. clin. North Am., Food anim. pract. VETERINARY CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA-FOOD ANIMAL PRACTICE 0749-0720 528540 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163072/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1363947 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/163072/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:163072 articulos driver 2025-10-09-13:25:56 ARTICLE