Document type: technical instruction from DGAL/SDSanimal welfare/2023-62 for the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
Author: French Bureau of Livestock Health Risk Prevention
Summary: This note specifies the implementation details for the programme of compulsory health visits in the pig sector (2023-2024 programme). These visits concern all those who own two or more pigs.
Preview: Purpose of the 2023-2024 programme
Visits to pig farms concern matters of animal welfare. It is essential to support farmers in the transition towards compliance with the regulations introduced in recent years, to explain changes and to reduce the number of compliance issues noted during animal protection inspections.
The objectives of the visits are as follows:
- to ensure that the farmer knows the regulations concerning light levels, manipulable materials and watering, and understands what is at stake for their animals;
- to provide them with recommendations tailored to their farm;
- to make them aware of the risk factors in tail docking and the regulations concerning tail docking;
- to inform them of changes to the regulations with regard to designated on-farm animal welfare adivsors and to the routes to bringing an end to the castration of piglets without anaesthetic.
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This publication was the subject of a news item in Le Point Vétérinaire on February 15, 2022 : Visites sanitaires porcines : une nouvelle campagne sur le bien-être animal
