Published in 2025
Article covering critical areas of transport that veterinarians must consider when striving to maintain and improve the welfare of ruminants.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Ruminants
Published in 2025
Synthesis from EURCAW Ruminants & Equines on the provision of access to pasture, which encourages the expression of natural behaviors and improves the health and well-being of ruminants and equines, notably through enhanced locomotion, enriched social interactions and good quality feed. However, it is not without some risks (animals can suffer from nutritional deficiencies, thermal stress, and locomotory and health disorders such as parasitism), calling for the appropriate management of resources, the environment and animal health.
Document Types: Technical review
Published in 2024
Analysis of the impact of R&D work carried out over the last thirty years on the pre-slaughter animal welfare of ruminants.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Ruminants
Keywords: Carcass quality, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Livestock buildings, Education, Euthanasia, One Welfare, Livestock farming system, Transport, Societal issues
Published in 2024
Multi-criteria study of behavioral observations, hormonal monitoring and decubitus rates as a means to assess giraffe welfare, comparing summer outdoor habitats and winter indoor quarters at several zoological institutions. The results suggest that housing giraffes indoors does not compromise their welfare, since positive effects were observed in both indoor and outdoor surroundings.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Wildlife, Ruminants
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Livestock buildings, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment
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
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
Synthesis of concepts and methods for assessing animal welfare through the study of behavior, illustrated by work on certain "neglected" species (buffalo, camels, donkeys, mules and lumpfish). The authors conclude that there is an extreme lack of balance in the species generally studied in research on animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Cattle, Camelids, Equines, Fish, Ruminants
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Working animals, Welfare indicators, Animal mediation, Behavioural disorders
Published in 2024
Answer to a question from an MEP asking the European Commission about its position on a proposal to boost small local abattoirs by stopping the long-distance transport of live animals and replacing it with the transport of meat.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Animal trade, Carcass quality, Transport
Published in 2024
Answer to a question on how long it has taken the Commission and EFSA to prepare the revision of European legislation concerning the "End the Cage Age", a revision which was not fully completed in the end.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Equines, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Livestock buildings, Housing, Societal issues, Restraint equipment, livestock farming system
