Published in 2024
Summary document for official welfare inspectors describing cooling technologies for pigs and their surroundings in farm buildings.
Document Types: Technical review
Animal categories: Porcines
Key word:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Livestock buildings, Education, Enrichment, Housing, Living environment
Published in 2024
Summary of the different types of enrichment (materials, objects, substrates) that can be given to sows during gestation, and the recommended methods for their provision.
Document Types: Technical review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Housing, Maternity, Behavioural disorders, Education, Welfare indicators
Published in 2024
In this article, the Director of OABA (Œuvre d'Assistance aux Bêtes d'Abattoirs) explains why the number of abandoned animals (goats, horses and cattle) taken in by the association has risen in recent years.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Abandonment, Adoption
Published in 2024
Results of a survey to identify the obstacles and motivations for French pig farmers to provide free-range access for pigs. Sustainability and the benefits for the health and welfare of animals and farmers are the central concerns of producers considering a change to this system.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Livestock buildings, Education, Housing, Living environment, One Welfare, Human-animal relationships, Livestock farming system, Societal issues
Published in 2024
To promote dialogue between livestock farming and society, LIT Ouesterel has been running one project since 2021 and another starting in 2024, intended to encourage livestock farmers to commit themselves to a progress approach. The second seeks to do so via actions at producer organization level.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Monogastrics, Ovines, Porcines, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Societal issues, One Welfare, Livestock farming system
Published in 2024
Study by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty's Center for Studies and Forecasting, intended to feed into public policy-making and describing the four main representations of agriculture and farmers seen in French society today: traditional family farming, large-scale industrial farming, farmers under pressure to scale up, and small farms that just scrape a living.The study takes into account three current debates that impact these representations of agriculture: 'agribashing', use of pesticides and animal welfare.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Monogastrics, Ovines, Porcines, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Livestock buildings, Living environment, One Welfare, Livestock farming system
Published in 2024
Scientific study examining the trade-offs between environmental costs (land use, GHG emissions and use of antimicrobials) and animal welfare costs in pig farming systems. Despite the common view that trade-offs are unavoidable, the study suggests that a focus on reducing impacts within existing systems rather than changing farming type offers the best way to avoid these trade-offs and mitigate externality costs.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Antibiotic resistance, Livestock buildings, Societal issues, Environment, Risk management, Living environment, Pollution, Livestock farming system
Published in 2024
Scientific article evaluating the effects of three ad libitum feeding systems on the productivity and welfare of suckling sows. Results show that sows fed ad libitum convert feed more efficiently for better piglet growth without additional weight loss. With these systems, sows spend more time feeding, which would meet the pigs' behavioral need to forage.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Welfare indicators, Behavioural disorders
Published in 2024
Response from the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to an MP's question on the EU's commitment to ban cage farming.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Pigs, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Livestock buildings, Housing, Restraint equipment
Published in 2024
Article on a summary report published by EURCAW-Pigs showing that sows are the pig category most affected by transport. The three risks specific to sows are: sensitivity to heat stress, a lack of transport suitability that is strongly connected to the poor general health of a large proportion of cull sows compared with average finisher sows, and the tendency of sows to fight when mixed with unfamiliar conspecifics.
Document Types: Technical review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Aggression, Aggressiveness, Animal trade, End of life, Welfare indicators, Robustness, Stress, Transport, Behavioural disorders, Aging
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