Published in 2013
Highly detailed guide to all euthanisation methods for all species (domestic carnivores, livestock and laboratory animals)
Document Types: Technical work
Keywords: Consciousness, Pain, Experimentation
Published in 2016
Description of the different methods of slaughter with recommendations concerning animal welfare
Document Types: Technical work
Keywords: Consciousness, Pain, Experimentation
Published in 2009
This document sets out the indicators used to assess welfare in pig production (breeding sows, growing pigs), 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: Porcines
Keywords: Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Animal-based measurements, Anxiety, Livestock buildings, Pain, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Housing, Restraint equipment, Living environment, Mutilation, Fear, Human-animal relationships, Stress
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
Published in 2009
Document Types: Scientific review
Keywords: Consciousness, Pain
Published in 2017
Document Types: Scientific review
Keywords: Consciousness, Metacognition
Published in 2007
The article addresses the issue of moral concern for domestic animals and for animal welfare defined as freedom from mortality and morbidity, freedom from stress, and the animal's freedom to express the natural behaviour of its species. While the first two definitions can lead to a failure to consider the animal in all its aspects, the third has the advantage of achieving this, taking into account the needs and social behaviours of livestock.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Keywords: Consciousness, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2004
Animal welfare is today an unavoidable part of the political, economic and social landscape of animal production, found in regulations, technical standards, ethical requirements, economic injunctions, etc. This book, through the selection of over a hundred separately authored texts accompanied by commentaries, provides the necessary tools to understand and analyse the origins of the issue of animal welfare, the stakes involved, and possible ways to solve the problems raised. The originality of this book lies in the fact that it selects a group of authors with contrasting opinions, but also in the fact that it draws on a wide range of disciplines: zootechnics, psychology, sociology, philosophy, ethology, history, economics, etc. Organised in four parts, it deals with the history of animal husbandry, sets out the scientific issues relating to welfare and the question of working animals, examines the living conditions of working animals and, last, considers the question of sustainable animal husbandry.
Document Types: Scientific work
Animal categories: Monogastrics, Ruminants
Keywords: Societal issues, Livestock farming system
Published in 2015
Whether it is a question of their status or their welfare, animals find themselves firmly at the centre of major contemporary debates. In this book, the authors address the ethics of human/animal relations in animal husbandry, discussing livestock animals within their economic context of production.
Document Types: Scientific work
Keywords: Biodiversity, Wildlife population dynamics, Societal issues, Experimentation, Livestock farming system
Published in 2016
This e-learning module providing a concise summary of the scientific evidence that underpins EU legislation on pig enrichment and harvesting has been produced in seven languages, with the aim of improving consistency in professional judgements regarding legal compliance on farms. The mark profiles indicated that the roles of the participants had an impact on their scores but that the training led to overall improvement in: (i) their ability to identify enrichments which, due to their type or use by pigs, may be insufficient to ensure compliance; (ii) their knowledge of risk factors for tail biting; and (iii) their recognition of when tail docking occurs.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation
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