The key indicators of stockpersonship and their relationship with independent behavioural observations and supervisor assessments of stockpeople

摘要

Stockpeople arc a vital component of animal production systems (English etal. 1992) but despite this recognised importance in regard to animal welfare, very few animal welfare audits assess stockpersonship. The aims of this study were to identify thekey indicators of stockpersonship, establish the validity of these measures by correlating them with stockperson behaviour and supervisor assessments of the stockperson and to establish the reliability of these measures using (i) Cronbach's alpha coefficient to establish internal consistency and (ii) tcst-rctest correlations to establish the repeatability of these measures.