Published in 2021
A scientific review examining the effects of housing systems on pig behaviour and performance. Free-range housing solves the behavioural problems encountered for pigs raised indoors, but is associated with a more frequent occurrence of injuries and of some elbow and hock lesions.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Housing, Breeding and rearing systems,Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
A scientific review of the use of data-based variables to detect animal welfare violations on farms, highlighting the fact that some of these variables are related to animal-based welfare measures. It recommends that the variables should be harmonised in light of the data they use, and that preference should be given to those that reflect the multidimensional nature of animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Precision farming, Welfare indicator, Breeding and rearing systems
Published in 2021
Scientific review of policies on animal health showing that they combine what are sometimes contradictory goals of public health, agricultural economics, international trade and animal welfare, and that this subject is now treated as a biosecurity matter and a global public good, with the emergence of the One Health concept.
Document Types: Scientific review
Keywords:Societal issues, Risk management, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2021
A scientific review of the contextual factors (human behaviour and types of intervention), that may affect the welfare of dogs during animal-assisted therapies. It makes recommendations to better identify and rectify situations where the welfare of dogs is compromised during these interventions.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Canine
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2021
A scientific review of the role of veterinarians in addressing animal welfare. While the veterinary profession initially considered welfare from the perspective of health and nutrition, it is now considering it in a more holistic way, taking into account the animal's feelings and perceptions of its environment. Much is expected of the veterinary profession, which is ideally placed to improve the consideration taken of animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Keywords: Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2021
Scientific review of the state of knowledge relating specifically to the welfare conditions immediately before slaughter of Italian heavy pigs, which are used for AOP products and therefore kept longer than is the average in other countries, a practice that generates particular physiological and behavioural needs.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Stress, Breeding and rearing system
Published in 2021
Article demonstrating that the French organic label guarantees higher animal welfare standards than conventional farming, providing access to outdoors, banning cage rearing and tethered systems, allowing only exceptional authorisation of non-medical surgical interventions, and requiring more frequent checks and compulsory stunning before slaughter. However, the legislation on transport and slaughter is still inadequate, even in the case of organic farming.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Housing, Living environment, Mutilations, Breeding and rearing systems, Transport,Societal issues
Published in 2021
News item presenting the results of scientific work commissioned by the Global Animal Partnership to understand and measure the welfare levels of broiler chickens. This work has resulted in a list of breeds that have high genetic welfare levels and are therefore recommended for welfare-friendly breeding.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Stress, Breeding and rearing systems
Published in 2021
The CIWF's first ChickenTrack 2021 report, an EggTrack-based tool to track the progress of major food companies that have signed up to the Better Chicken Commitment to improve broiler welfare in, for example, the reduction of stocking densities, environmental enrichment, and the raising of slower-growing strains.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Housing, Human-animal relationships, Societal issues
Published in 2021
Scientific review noting a growing interest among scientists in Oceania, Latin America and Asia in the welfare issues for pregnant sows, as well as the emergence of new research topics in recent years, including group sow management and environmental enrichment.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Enrichment, Housing, Living environment,Societal issues
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