Publications by authors named "Grete H M Jorgensen"
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- - The birth process in animals can have complications similar to those in humans, posing risks to both mothers and offspring, and while monitoring can help, it can also be costly, especially in humans.
- - Current commercial monitoring systems exist for large ruminants, but there are no effective solutions for small ruminants, despite various attempts documented in research, leading to a need for alternative methods.
- - This study reviews the use of low-cost inertial sensors to detect parturition in small ruminants, highlighting findings that unique animal behaviors, particularly patterns of lying down and getting up, may enhance detection precision, although no fully validated detection algorithm was achieved.
Several non-invasive methods for assessing stress responses have been developed and validated for many animal species. Due to species-specific differences in metabolism and excretion of stress hormones, methods should be validated for each species. The aim of this study was to conduct a physiological validation of an 11-oxoaetiocholanolone enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for measuring faecal cortisol metabolites (FCMs) in male reindeer by administration of adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH; intramuscular, 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The risk of injuries is of major concern when keeping horses in groups and there is a need for a system to record external injuries in a standardised and simple way. The objective of this study, therefore, was to develop and validate a system for injury recording in horses and to test its reliability and feasibility under field conditions.
Methods: Injuries were classified into five categories according to severity.