Published in 2021
Article setting out the main findings of the German government's 2021 report on nutrition in Germany. German citizens are eating less meat and taking greater account of the welfare of farm animals.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues, Environment, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2021
Paper proposing a simplified version of the Welfare Quality assessment protocol for dairy cows for routine use.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Livestock farming system, Welfare indicators
Published in 2019
Study to determine empirically the acceptance levels and evaluation of animal welfare in dairy production by German consumers.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2020
Preview: “The aim of this review was to describe recent changes and expected developments in housing systems for dairy cows. These new developments should create an appropriate production environment for modern high-producing dairy cows and stimulate dairy farming-related developments in management, agro-technology, and equipment.”
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Housing, Living environment, Livestock farming system
Published in 2020
Preview: “Oral stereotypies are often performed by cattle as a behavioral coping mechanism. Non-nutritive oral behaviors in cattle may be caused by limited access to roughage. Non-nutritive oral behaviors may be a behavioral signal of a welfare concern in cattle, but may also be a useful behavioral proxy for rumen status.”
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Anxiety, Enrichment, Stress, Psychiatric disorder
Published in 2020
Study of the mobility behaviour of cows on pasture using an accelerometer for the early detection of lameness.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Pain, Precision farming, Welfare indicators
Published in 2020
8th annual report on political commitment, performance and provision of information relating to animal welfare in 150 international agri-food companies.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2019
A review of traditional and new precautionary methods currently used in livestock farming, of their success and of the future of this field in the new era of digital agriculture.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Precision farming, Modelling, Livestock farming system
Published in 2020
Preview: “Locomotion scoring is time consuming and is not commonly completed on farms. Farmers also underestimate their herds' lameness prevalence, a knowledge gap that impedes lameness management. Automation of lameness detection could address this knowledge gap and facilitate improved lameness management. The literature pertinent to adding lameness detection to accelerometers is reviewed in this paper.”
Document Types: Scientific review
Category of animals: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Modelling, Livestock farming system
Published in 2020
Inventory of the sources of stress and pain associated with the stunning and killing of cattle in France, with and without stunning.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Brain integration, Cognitive processes
