Discipline: Veterinary

Responsive approaches for improving inspection processes

EURCAW-Pigs

Published in 2022

Summary of approaches that veterinary inspectors can use to improve communication during livestock welfare inspections, including paired inspections, participatory group training, training on maintaining motivation, and in delivering bad news. 

Document Types: Scientific review

Animal categories: Porcines

Keywords: Welfare indicators

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Preslaughter handling and slaughter of meat animals

Luigi Faucitano

Published in 2022

Announcement of a book on the slaughter preparation and slaughter of animals for human consumption. After a general chapter on welfare assessment using animal-based indicators, individual chapters are devoted to different species: cattle, fish, horses, pigs, poultry, sheep and non-traditional slaughter species. The book ends with a chapter on mobile slaughter.

Document Types: Scientific work

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Restraint equipment, Human-animal relationships, Weaning, Transport

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Comparing the pathology of equine stereotypical behaviours to obsessive-compulsive and related disorder in humans: An exploratory Delphi study

Stephanie Megan Plato

Published in 2022

Scientific paper using a Delphi method to compare equine stereotypic behaviour (ESC) and human OCD looking at neurological, etiological and behavioural aspects, causal factors and welfare effects. It identifies the advantages and disadvantages of having ESCs recognised as OCDs.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Equines

Keywords:Anxiety, Enrichment, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Welfare indicators

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European Parliament: Written answer to Question E-005354/21: Animal welfare checks at EU exit points

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

Published in 2022

Written answer to a question on the exits of live animals from the EU occurring in Kakavia, Greece, without any animal welfare controls, in contravention of the EU regulations on EU exit points.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords: Societal issues, Transport

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European Parliament resolution of 16 February 2022 on the Implementation Report on On-Farm Animal Welfare

European Parliament

Published in 2022

Text of the resolution adopted by the European Parliament to support animal welfare on farms. It will serve as the basis for the development of new EU rules in this area.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Societal issues, Livestock farming system, Stress, Welfare indicators

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French Assemblée Nationale: Written answer to question n°36062: Conditions d'Abattage

Answer to a question on the Government's position on the ban on the slaughter of farm animals without prior stunning for religious reasons.

Published in 2022

Answer to a question on the Government's position on the ban on the slaughter of farm animals without prior stunning for religious reasons.

Document types: Regulation/Certification

Animal categories:Cattle, Goats, Sheep, Poultry

Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Stress

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Investigating the cecal microbiota in broiler poultry farms and its potential relationships with animal welfare

Lisa Di Marcantonio, Francesca Marotta, Michele Podaliri Vulpiani, Quixi Sonntag, Luigi Iannetti, Anna Janowicz, Gabriella Di Serafino, Elisabetta Di Giannatale, Giuliano Garofolo

Published in 2022

Scientific paper demonstrating that the composition and diversity of the caecal microbiota of broilers vary according to their levels of welfare and the presence or absence of Campylobacter in their microbiota.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Poultry

Keywords:Animal-based measures, Microbiota, Welfare indicators

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Ending routine farm antibiotic use in Europe through improving animal health and welfare

Cóilín Nunan

Published in 2022

Report recommending ten farming practices to achieve a significant reduction in the use of antibiotics on European farms while improving animal health and welfare.

Document Types: Opinions

Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry

Keywords:Antibiotic resistance

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Parangonnage européen sur le bien-être animal et la lutte contre la maltraitance animale

Loïc Evain, Marie-Frédérique Parant

Published in 2022

Results of a CGAAER survey in 11 Member States and 5 third countries on their position on animal welfare (AW), covering topics such as an end to cage farming, painful practices, animal welfare labelling, transport and slaughter, competition from third countries with less strict AW standards, the fight against the abandonment of domestic carnivores, and rules specific to Equidae. Its purpose is to assist the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food in developing the new French animal welfare strategy.

Document Types: Scientific review

Keywords:Societal issues, Mutilation, Transport, Welfare indicators

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Animal Welfare and Parasite Infections in Organic and Conventional Dairy Farms: A Comparative Pilot Study in Central Italy

Matteo Chincarini, Lydia Lanzoni, Jorgelina Di Pasquale, Simone Morelli, Giorgio Vignola, Barbara Paoletti, Angela Di Cesare

Published in 2022

Scientific paper comparing the animal welfare and parasite loads in dairy cows between groups reared organically and conventionally,  finding no significant differences for either criterion, despite the fact that organic farms carried out no treatments for parasites.

Document Types: Scientific paper

Animal categories: Bovines

Keywords: Livestock farming system

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