%0 Journal Article %T Bienestar y reproducci¨®n animal %A C¨®rdova-Izquierdo %A Alejandro %J REDVET %D 2008 %I Veterinaria Organizaci¨®n %X It can be defined Animal welfare (AW), as the stage of complete physical and mental health of the animals where is in complete harmony with their atmosphere. The correct well-being should fulfill appropriate requirements as: I manage, food and transport, treatment, prevention of illnesses, appropriate facilities for their development and their comfort. The general objective of the BW, is to avoid the pain or unnecessary suffering above all and to force as much to the proprietors as to the caretakers of animals, torespect minimum requirements of welfare. In this work, aspects related with the strss are approached - answer of the animals in the face of any factor of the environment - that rebound with the welfare and reproductive acting of the domestic mammals in the Units of Animal Production (UAP). %K Reproduction %K animal welfare %K units of animal production. %U http://www.veterinaria.org/revistas/redvet/n121208/121216.pdf