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Record W4249489433 · doi:10.1079/9781780643212.0228

Sheep transport.

2014· book-chapter· en· W4249489433 on OpenAlexaff
M.S. Cockram

Bibliographic record

VenueCABI eBooks · 2014
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicMeat and Animal Product Quality
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Prince Edward Island
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRoad transportStockingAnimal welfareAnimal husbandryAnimal scienceEngineeringBiologyTransport engineeringEcology

Abstract

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Various aspects of sheep transport are discussed. There is much concern about the correct stocking density of a vehicle to provide an acceptable level of animal welfare. If sheep are stocked too tightly on a vehicle, a fallen animal may have difficulty getting up. Sheep prefer to brace themselves against the motion of the vehicle by spreading their legs instead of leaning on each other. Driving events, such as acceleration, braking, stopping, cornering, uneven road surfaces and gear changes, are the cause of 22% of loss of balance incidents. The chapter also presents information on stress in relation to transport, the effect of temperature on respiration rate (thermoregulation), feed and water deprivation and time on the vehicle. There is an important species difference between sheep and cattle. When sheep get off a vehicle, they will eat before they will drink, and rest stops must be long enough for sheep to eat and then to drink. If the quality of the journey is good and care is taken to select only sheep that are fit, it is possible to transport certain types of sheep over long distances without the sheep experiencing major welfare problems.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.094
Threshold uncertainty score0.315

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0940.054

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.213
Teacher spread0.170 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2014
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