Electrical waterbath stunning of poultry
Published in 2015
Good practice methods for the waterbath slaughter of poultry
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Risk management
Animal category: Poultry
Recommendations to limit the risk of severe pecking in laying hens
Published in 2019
Now that animal welfarek trimming has been called into question in the European Union, farmers must plan for a shift in the medium term to egg production from untrimmed hens. This guide sets out the different actions that can be carried out as part of a whole-animal approach to farming in order to limit the risk of severe pecking in pullets and laying hens.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment
Animal Transport Guides Project Consortium (2017-rev1 May 2018). "Guide to Good Practice for Poultry Transport"
Published in 2018
This Guide to Good Practice is intended to improve animal welfare during transport by providing practical tools to meet regulatory requirements while suggesting improvements in practice that go beyond the legislation.
The practices in this guide are based on scientific knowledge and publications and on experience and information gathered from stakeholders. No distinction is made between different types of knowledge producer unless this is considered necessary for a better understanding or verification of the source. Its contents may be used to develop company-specific guidelines or Standard Operating Procedures for transporters or other stakeholders, or as a reference source for practical transport management that respects animal welfare.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Transport
The use of animal-based measures to assess welfare of broilers
Published in 2012
Preview: “Animal-based measures (ABM) can be used effectively in the on-farm evaluation of broiler welfare in relation to laws, codes of practice, quality assurance schemes, management and also partly for ante-mortem inspection. Some ABM can also be taken post-mortem at the slaughterhouse. Non-animal-based measures can be used when the association between them and the welfare outcome is strong and when they are more efficient than ABM as a means to safeguard welfare. They can also be useful predictors of welfare in broilers. The choice of animal-based measures will depend upon the specific objectives of the assessment. The full list is comparable to a „toolbox‟, from which the appropriate set of measures can be selected.”
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Welfare indicators
The Welfare of Chickens Kept for Meat Production (Broilers)
Published in 2000
Report on the welfare of broiler chickens, with particular reference to genetics, space allowances and health problems encountered in production (particularly in fast-growing strains)
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Stress, Pain, Enrichment, Living environment
AWIN Welfare assessment protocol for Turkeys
Published in 2015
Assessment of turkey welfare using the transect method
Document Types: Technical work
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords : Animal-based measurements, Pain, Welfare indicators
Recommendations concerning changes to the rules on animal welfare in abattoirs and compliance monitoring
Published in 2019
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Monogastrics, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Restraint equipment, Carcass quality, Human-animal relationships
Effects of environmental complexity on welfare indicators of fast-growing broiler chickens
Published in 2019
The study aims to investigate the effects of different types of environmental complexity on leg health and welfare indicators for fast-growing chickens housed in accordance with mainstream European legislation.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Pain, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Stress, Livestock farming system
Welfare implications of changes in production systems for laying hens
Published in 2006
Assessment of the welfare of laying hens in different production systems. Tool for assessing the welfare of hens.
Document Types: Scientific work
Welfare Quality® assessment protocol for poultry
Published in 2009
The document sets out the indicators used to assess the welfare of poultry (broiler and laying hens), including the rearing and abattoir phases. The chosen indicators concern the resources available to the animal (housing, activities), measurements taken from the animal, and a qualitative evaluation. The document explains registration procedures, qualitative and frequency scoring methods, and the aggregation of criteria from four of the five domains of welfare: nutrition, environment, health and appropriate behaviours.
Document Types: Technical work
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Animal-based measurements, Anxiety, Livestock buildings, Pain, Enrichment, Environment, Welfare indicators, Housing, Restraint equipment, Living environment, Mutilation, Fear, Human-animal relationships, Stress
