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
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
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
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
Published in 2023
Answer to a question about the responsibility of the European Commission regarding the mistreatment of wild animals in circuses and whether it intends to intervene to push for a ban on their use in the last 4 European countries that still allow it, namely Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords: Behavioural disorders, Human-animal relationships, Ill treatment,Societal issues
Published in 2023
Scientific literature review of publications that consider the impact of livestock systems on both the environment and animal welfare. It shows that environmental impact assessment using life cycle assessment (LCA) has a much more consistent, standardized and thorough methodology than animal welfare assessments. It concludes that research is needed to integrate animal welfare assessment into LCA.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Fish, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Environment, Welfare indicators, Modelling, One Welfare
Published in 2023
Scientific review proposing a new conceptual framework it calls the circular welfare economy (CWE), intended to facilitate the transition to sustainable agriculture. The CWE applies the notion of circularity to welfare, defined as the quality of life as it is perceived by the individual animal itself. It also considers human integrity, defined as openness and honesty, to be a prerequisite for sustainability.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Fish, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Environment, One Welfare, Human-animal relationships,Societal issues
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
Published in 2023
Scientific review on the use of clove oil as a natural, effective and reversible anaesthetic in decapods, including brown crab and langoustine, which are commercially important in the UK, and whether it can improve the welfare of these animals at the farming and slaughter stages of life.
Document Types: Scientific review
Keywords: Pain, Societal issues
Published in 2023
Summary of the official inspections carried out in the Member States in 2021 to assess the protection of hen welfare. It proposes avenues for improvement and identifies good practices for dissemination. It shows that the protection of the welfare of laying hens varies from one Member State to another, risking the creation of unfair competition for producers within the EU. It reveals that official inspections of pullet farms and hatcheries are far less frequent and consistent than those of laying hen farms.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Societal issues, Livestock farming system
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