Why workshops work: Examining the efficacy of training trainers to train goats.

ABSTRACT: Experimental procedures involving farm animals are often associated with stress due to restraining. Stress can be reduced through use of positive reinforcement training, which then serves as refinement according to the 3Rs principles. Trainer skills, however, may influence the feasibility and success of animal training. The potential influence of trainer skills as well as the education of animal trainers are rarely described in literature but are necessary information for the implementation of positive reinforcement training as a refinement measure. To investigate the effect of educational programmes on animal trainers, we compared the training success of two groups of participants in training goats to elicit a behaviour that would allow simulated venipuncture. One group was educated in a

SUBMITTER: Meier J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10955182 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature