Published in 2023
Guide d’indicateurs clés de bien-être basés sur les résultats chez la poule pondeuse et la dinde.
Document Types: Guides to Good Practice
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Carcass quality, Carcassindicator, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Livestock systems, Transport, Welfare indicator
Published in 2023
Key welfare indicators on results for broilers.
Document Types: Guides to Good Practice
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Carcass quality, Carcassindicator, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Livestock systems, Transport, Welfare indicator
Published in 2023
Review of current animal transport practices in the European Union and possible actions to improve the account taken of the welfare of transported animals.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Transport
Published in 2023
Answer to a question concerning the fact that the Greek border of Kakavia continues to be used as an exit point for live animals from the European Union (EU) even though it is not recognized as such, and asking whether any sanctions have been taken by the EU against Greece.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues, Transport
Published in 2023
Scientific literature review of publications that consider the impact of livestock systems on both the environment and animal welfare. It shows that environmental impact assessment using life cycle assessment (LCA) has a much more consistent, standardized and thorough methodology than animal welfare assessments. It concludes that research is needed to integrate animal welfare assessment into LCA.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Fish, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Environment, Welfare indicators, Modeling, One Welfare
Published in 2023
Scientific review proposing a new conceptual framework it calls the circular welfare economy (CWE), intended to facilitate the transition to sustainable agriculture. The CWE applies the notion of circularity to welfare, defined as the quality of life as it is perceived by the individual animal itself. It also considers human integrity, defined as openness and honesty, to be a prerequisite for sustainability.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Fish, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Environment, One Welfare, Human-animal relationships,Societal issues
Published in 2023
Summary of the official inspections carried out in the Member States in 2021 to assess the protection of hen welfare. It proposes avenues for improvement and identifies good practices for dissemination. It shows that the protection of the welfare of laying hens varies from one Member State to another, risking the creation of unfair competition for producers within the EU. It reveals that official inspections of pullet farms and hatcheries are far less frequent and consistent than those of laying hen farms.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues, Breeding and rearing systems
Published in 2023
Report summarizing the main welfare problems faced by broilers, fish, pigs, dairy cows and rabbits in intensive farming and the main shortcomings of current European legislation in this respect.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Fish, Pigs, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Pain, Societal issues, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock systems
Published in 2023
Leaflet for the use of private chicken owners in Switzerland. It provides information on the regulations, and on hens' physiological and behavioral needs in terms of improving their health and welfare.
Document Types: Guides to Good Practice
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Welfare indicators
Published in 2023
Article describing how a method was developed to assess health and welfare on individual Swiss livestock farms using information from agricultural databases and supervised machine learning. This method made it possible to score the animal health and welfar management performance of farms in a way comparable to on-farm assessment by trained staff.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Livestock system, Welfare indicator
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