Animal: Pigs

Well-being assessment and management: what approaches for what objectives?

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Intervention support presenting the definition of BEA, indicator measurements and overall assessment of BEA on a farm, use of assessment results/assessment objectives

16 practical information sheets: preventing pain in pigs

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Practical factsheets for :
- learning to carry out tail docking and limit piglet pain
- acting on risk factors for tail biting to limit its occurrence

The RHAPORC method: assessing the factors that modulate the human-animal relationship in order to improve it

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A guide to the sensory and cognitive capacities of pigs and the importance of human-animal relationships in farming. Practical information sheets help to assess the parameters that influence the relationship between pigs and farmers, and identify the factors that need to be improved.

Indicator factsheets

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A set of practical sheets presenting Welfare Quality® Indicators for pigs, covering eight priority areas: rearing, transport, slaughter and killing, birth management and housing, fitness for transport, pig stunning, group housing and mixing, on-farm killing. Used by inspectors, they enable potential or existing welfare problems to be identified, and compliance with European legislation to be verified. For each indicator, an information sheet is drawn up, describing the underlying welfare problem, the legal requirements and a suggested inspection and scoring method.
Some sheets include QR codes redirecting to short videos.