Discipline: Veterinary

IPWA Key Welfare Indicators Reference Guide - Turkeys

IPWA

Published in 2023

Results-based key welfare indicator guide for turkeys

Document Types: Good practice guide

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Carcass quality, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Livestock farming system, Transport

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IPWA Key Welfare Indicators Reference Guide - Layer Chicken

IPWA

Published in 2023

Guide d’indicateurs clés de bien-être basés sur les résultats chez la poule pondeuse et la dinde.

Document Types: Good practice guide

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Carcass quality, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Livestock farming system, Transport

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IPWA Key Welfare Indicators Reference Guide - Broiler Chicken

IPWA

Published in 2023

Key welfare indicators on results for broilers.

Document Types: Good practice guide

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Carcass quality, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Livestock farming system, Transport

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Social behaviors as welfare indicators in teleost fish

Luciano Cavallino, Laura Rincón, María Florencia Scaia

Published in 2023

Scientific review summarizing how cortisol and reproductive steroids regulate social behaviors in teleost fish, and how different aspects of social behavior can be used as indicators of welfare based on species-specific characteristics.

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Fish

Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Welfare indicators, Stress

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Influences of human contact following milk-feeding on nonnutritive oral behavior and rest of individual and pair-housed dairy calves during weaning

S.B. Doyle, E.K. Miller-Cushon

Published in 2023

Scientific article investigating the interactive effects of shared housing and human contact after the feeding of milk to weaning calves. It shows that human contact reduced pen-directed sucking in individually housed calves, highlighting the role of restrictive environments in the expression of these behaviors in conventionally housed dairy calves.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Enrichment, Housing, Human-animal relationships,Societal issues

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Impact of water stress on adaptation and performance of sheep and goats in dryland regions under climate change scenarios: a systematic review

Diriba Tulu, Sileshi Gadissa, Feyisa Hundessa

Published in 2023

Scientific article demonstrating that, despite changes affecting their physiology, blood, biochemistry and  water and food consumption behaviors, sheep and goats can adapt to higher salinity levels in their drinking water in arid environments. Better adaptation is to be observed in local breeds, which prove to be more resilient.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories:Goats, Sheep

Keywords:Animal adaptation to its environment, Environment, Risk management, Resilience, Robustness, Stress, Societal issues

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Pratique d’élevage : les lactations longues chez la chèvre

Marion Weisslinger

Published in 2023

Dossier setting out the advantages and disadvantages of long lactation periods in goats and with reports from two farmers who follow this practice. 

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Caprines

Keywords: Lactation, Human-animal relationships,Societal issues

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Transportof Live Animals in the EU: challenges and opportunities 

European Court of Auditors

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

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European Parliament: Written answer to question E-000214/23: Animal welfare controls at EU exit points

Question: Thomas Waitz (Greens/EFA). Answer: Ms Kyriakides on behalf of the European Commission

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

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Effects of improved early-life conditions on health, welfare, and performance of pigs raised on a conventional farm

S. Gavaud, K. Haurogné, A. Buchet, I. Garcia Vinado, M. Allard, A. Lehébel, M. Leblanc-Maridor, J.M. Bach, C. Belloc, B. Lieubeau, J. Hervé

Published in 2023

Scientific paper to examine the effects of the complete elimination of painful procedures and of reducing weaning stressors in the living conditions of piglets on a commercial farm. This form of management resulted in improved innate immunity at weaning, fewer and less severe body lesions but more tail lesions than in the control pigs.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords:Aggression, Aggressiveness, Castration, Mutilation, Weaning, Socialization, Sterilization, Stress

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