Document type: Factsheet/Booklet/Guide

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.

Taking care of your driving dog

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3 pages. Food and health (prevention and treatment)

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.

Debarking young cattle efficiently, easily and without doubt

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6 pages. Anatomical reminders, the 7 steps to successful thermal debudding, understanding and managing the pain of debarking, organizing for debarking.

For healthy suckling calves - Adapting rearing practices and building design

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 2-page technical advice sheet in the Livestock Farmers collection. Technical advice is provided for each phase: - before calving, calving, calf early life, and later growth - devided into two areas of action - animal husbandry and building lay-out and equipment. The sheet also includes a practical case study, and looks at accommodation for sick animals.

Danone Animal welfare program - a practical guide for producers

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98 pages. Set of technical data sheets on the following topics: handling, human-animal relationships; calf management and grouping; calf pain and disbudding; mastitis; lameness; comfort, bedding and cubicles; watering; grazing; temperature management; transport; downer cows.

Préparation complète des broutards : Un levier pour diminuer la fréquence des maladies respiratoires ?

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Technical factsheet setting out an experimental protocol to prepare grazers, the measurable technical benefits, particularly in terms of health, reduction of stress, and weight gain, and the opinions of those working in the sector.

Le comportement des taurillons en engraissement – comprendre les animaux pour gérer leur bien-être

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Practical factsheet based on a summary of the literature and produced as part of the CASDAR BeBop project on the physiological and behavioural needs of fattening bullocks.

The breeder as guarantor of animal welfare

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4 pages. Implementation of an animal welfare progress tool in the poultry and rabbit sectors

EBENE protocol, user guide

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36 pages. Implementation of a practical, shared method for assessing animal welfare in the poultry and rabbit sectors