Published in 2024
Summary of the different types of enrichment (materials, objects, substrates) that can be given to sows during gestation, and the recommended methods for their provision.
Document Types: Technical review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Housing, Maternity, Behavioural disorders, Education, Welfare indicators
Published in 2024
Results of a survey to gain an understanding of dairy calf farmers' perceptions of the management, behavior and welfare of their animals. Farmers seemed to attach great importance to the welfare of their calves. Those who installed group housing were more interested in the subjective welfare of their calves. Individual perceptions of animal welfare would appear to depend on the respondents' practical experience.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Livestock buildings, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Lactation, Housing, Living environment, One Welfare, Human-animal relationships, livestock farming system
Published in 2024
Results of a survey to identify the obstacles and motivations for French pig farmers to provide free-range access for pigs. Sustainability and the benefits for the health and welfare of animals and farmers are the central concerns of producers considering a change to this system.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Livestock buildings, Education, Housing, Living environment, One Welfare, Human-animal relationships, Livestock farming system, Societal issues
Published in 2024
Technical data sheets published by EURCAW-Poultry-SFA containing the main indicators for the assessment of the state of consciousness of broilers and turkeys, the "iceberg" indicators to assess severe pecking, feather cleanliness, foot pad dermatitis in broilers and leg lesions at slaughter in laying hens.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Aggression, Animal-based measurements, Pain, Education, Euthanasia, Welfare indicators, Mutilation, Vocalisation
Published in 2024
To promote dialogue between livestock farming and society, LIT Ouesterel has been running one project since 2021 and another starting in 2024, intended to encourage livestock farmers to commit themselves to a progress approach. The second seeks to do so via actions at producer organization level.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Monogastrics, Ovines, Porcines, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Societal issues, One Welfare, Livestock farming system
Published in 2024
Article following on from the FRCAW report on the slaughter of farmed fish. Ifremer reviews the capacity of fish to feel pain, their legal status, and appropriate slaughter methods. Making pre-slaughter stunning compulsory in France would require investment and an overhaul of the way businesses organize their work, but other countries such as Norway have already done so.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Brain integration, Euthanasia, Experimentation, Pain, Maltreatment, Stress, Societal issues
Published in 2024
Study by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty's Center for Studies and Forecasting, intended to feed into public policy-making and describing the four main representations of agriculture and farmers seen in French society today: traditional family farming, large-scale industrial farming, farmers under pressure to scale up, and small farms that just scrape a living.The study takes into account three current debates that impact these representations of agriculture: 'agribashing', use of pesticides and animal welfare.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Monogastrics, Ovines, Porcines, Ruminants, Poultry
Keywords:Livestock buildings, Living environment, One Welfare, Livestock farming system
Published in 2024
ChickenTrack 2023 has assessed the commitment of 85 companies to animal welfare on chicken farms, showing an encouraging increase from 39% to 65% of European companies who publicly reported on their work for transition under the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC) in 2023. In France, of the 34 companies assessed, 68% published information on their progress.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Livestock buildings, Enrichment, Identification, Housing, Societal issues
Published in 2024
Scientific study examining the trade-offs between environmental costs (land use, GHG emissions and use of antimicrobials) and animal welfare costs in pig farming systems. Despite the common view that trade-offs are unavoidable, the study suggests that a focus on reducing impacts within existing systems rather than changing farming type offers the best way to avoid these trade-offs and mitigate externality costs.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Antibiotic resistance, Livestock buildings, Societal issues, Environment, Risk management, Living environment, Pollution, Livestock farming system
Published in 2024
Scientific article evaluating the effects of three ad libitum feeding systems on the productivity and welfare of suckling sows. Results show that sows fed ad libitum convert feed more efficiently for better piglet growth without additional weight loss. With these systems, sows spend more time feeding, which would meet the pigs' behavioral need to forage.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Welfare indicators, Behavioural disorders
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