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"A thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Science." Title from PDF of title page (Georgia Southern University, viewed on June 19, 2010). Bruce A. Schulte, major professor; Lissa M. Leege, J. Michelle Cawthorn, committee members. Electronic version approved: December 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p.76-78).

Orientador: Mateus José Rodrigues Paranhos da Costa / Coorientador: Aline Cristina Sant'Anna / Resumo: O objetivo desta tese foi avaliar os efeitos do acesso de vaqueiros à informação sobre boas práticas de manejo de gado de corte na a qualidade do manejo, o temperamento e o bem-estar dos bovinos. Os objetivos específicos foram: 1) Contribuir para uma maior compreensão da relação entre a interação humano-animal, temperamento, resposta ao estresse e performance reprodutiva de novilhas nelore submetidas ao protocolo de inseminação artificial em tempo fixo; 2) Avaliar o potencial impacto do treinamento de vaqueiros em boas práticas de manejo sobre as atitudes e a qualidade de manejo dos mesmos e o bem-estar do gado; 3) Comparar fazendas onde todos os vaqueiros foram treinados com fazendas onde alguns foram treinados e fazendas onde ninguém foi treinado e; 4) Estudar se a qualidade do manejo do gado deteriora ao longo de um dia de trabalho. Para o primeiro objetivo específico, um total de 571 novilhas foram usadas para avaliar dois indicadores de temperamento (a velocidade de saída - VS e o escore composto de reatividade REA), cinco indicadores de interação humano animal (manejo negativo - MN, acidentes - ACIDENTES, defecação e micção - DEF-MIC, comportamentos indesejados - CI e tempo de entrada - TE) e a sujidade na região perineal - SUJIDADE. Todos esses indicadores foram avaliados no dia d0, d7 e d11 de um protocolo de inseminação a tempo fixo. Adicionalmente, dois indicadores de estresse (cortisol - CORT e relação neutrófilo: linfócito - N:L) foram avaliados em uma sub-amostra... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The objective of this thesis was to assess the effects of the stockpeople access to information about good beef cattle handling practices on the quality of handling, cattle temperament and welfare. The specific objectives were: 1) To further contribute to the understanding of the relationships between human-animal interactions, temperament, stress response, and reproductive performance of Nellore heifers submitted to a FTAI protocol; 2) To evaluate the potential impacts of handling skills training on good practices of cattle handling on stockpeople' attitudes and behavior, and cattle welfare; 3) To compare farms where all stockpeople were trained, to farms where only some where trained, and farms where none where trained and, 4) To study whether the quality of cattle handling deteriorates as the working day time passes. For the first specific objective, a sample of 571 heifers was used to assess two temperament traits (flight speed - FS and the composite reactivity score - RS), five human-animal interaction traits (negative handling - NH, Accidents - ACCIDENT, Defecation-urination - DEF-URI, Undesirable behavior - UB and Entrance time - ET), and perineal region dirtiness - DIRTINESS. All variables were assessed on d0, d7 and d11 of a FTAI protocol. Additionally, two physiological indicators of stress (cortisol - CORT and neutrophil:lymphocyte ratio - N:L) were recorded in a subsample of 99 heifers on d0 and d11. The occurrence of NH was associated with the occurrence of ACCID... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor