Published in 2025
Guide published by the Spanish aquaculture industry, describing the good practices to ensure rainbow trout welfare. It proposes specific indicators appropriate to each farming phase, while emphasizing the importance of training, sustainability and a stronger legal framework.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Fish
Published in 2024
Case study on how Norwegian producer Norsk Kylling has adapted its chicken production to comply with the European Chicken Commitment (ECC) criteria, combining profitability, animal welfare and sustainability. The measures described include lower stocking densities, slower-growing breeds and more humane slaughter methods.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Livestock buildings, Societal issues, Environment, Housing, Living environment, One Welfare, Carcass quality, livestock farming systemTransport
Published in 2024
The document describes the four strategic axes of the industry plan: guaranteeing France's food sovereignty, meeting societal sustainability challenges (including animal welfare), strengthening links between all participants in the industry, and promoting innovation to enhance the adaptability of the various links in the food chain.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Environment, One Welfare, 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 2023
Update of a guide originally published in 2012 by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on the laws and regulations protecting farm animals at shows and markets, with particular reference to compliance rules for pens, cages and hutches.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Animal trade, Housing, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Societal issues
Published in 2023
Update of the guide originally published in 2012 by the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), on how to manage the health and welfare of poultry during transport, at market and at slaughter
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Transport
Published in 2023
Guide from the Aquaculture Advisory Council offering recommendations for all those involved in the sector, but also for the European Commission and Member States.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2015
Practical guide to European transport regulations, infringements and penalties by species, and various associated official documents. Containing numerous diagrams and illustrations.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Transport
Published in 2023
Fact sheet describing commercially-available "welfare-friendly" stunning and slaughtering equipment for some of the most common farmed species in aquaculture, explaining how the equipment works, emphasizing the importance of proper calibration, and of its context of use.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Stress
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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