Published in 2020
A guide containing recommendations to pig farmers to ensure animal welfare needs are met. These are not statutory requirements, but if there is evidence that the farmer has not followed the recommendations in the guide, this can be used against him in court.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Livestock buildings, Societal issues, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Housing
Published in 2020
Tips for the preparation and capture of broilers before transport to the abattoir.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Pain, Risk management, Stress
Published in 2019
Guide setting out all current scientific recommendations relating to the welfare of horses that can be followed by all keepers of horses.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords : Human-animal relationships
Published in 2015
Protocol for assessing the welfare of donkeys on farms using environmental and animal indicators
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Welfare indicators, Housing, Human-animal relationships
Published in 2016
Preview: “The content of the AVMA Guidelines for the Humane Slaughter of Animals (Guidelines) reflects the AVMA’s on-going commitment to ensure that the treatment of animals during every stage of life, including during the induction of death, is as humane and respectful as possible. While much remains to be learned about animal pain and consciousness and new evidence and technological innovation may lead to the adoption of more humane techniques, this edition of the Guidelines relies on the scientific evidence currently available."
Document Types: Good practice guide
Keywords: Risk management
Published in 2015
Good practice methods for the waterbath slaughter of poultry
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Risk management
Published in 2019
This 12-page leaflet summarises the main principles to follow in order to improve the welfare of horses.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Anxiety, Learning, Training, Housing, Living environment, Fear, Human-animal relationships, Stress
Published in 2019
Now that animal welfarek trimming has been called into question in the European Union, farmers must plan for a shift in the medium term to egg production from untrimmed hens. This guide sets out the different actions that can be carried out as part of a whole-animal approach to farming in order to limit the risk of severe pecking in pullets and laying hens.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment
Published in 2018
This Guide to Good Practice is intended to improve animal welfare during transport by providing practical tools to meet regulatory requirements while suggesting improvements in practice that go beyond the legislation.
The practices in this guide are based on scientific knowledge and publications and on experience and information gathered from stakeholders. No distinction is made between different types of knowledge producer unless this is considered necessary for a better understanding or verification of the source. Its contents may be used to develop company-specific guidelines or Standard Operating Procedures for transporters or other stakeholders, or as a reference source for practical transport management that respects animal welfare.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Transport
Published in 2018
Rearing: the guide includes reports of on-farm experiments to limit the occurrence of boar taint or to achieve 100% immuno-vaccination in males.
Abattoirs: the survey of methods to detect carcasses with boar taint indicates that the majority of supply chains involved use the "human nose" method, following rigorous protocols. Danish scientists report that an objective technique for quantifying malodorous molecules is being developed in an abattoir.
Curing: alternative uses for the small percentage of carcasses with boar taint are set out.
Changing practices: Last, examples of supply chains that have wholly or partially ceased surgical castration highlight the key role of retail sales personnel in promoting product chains that follow the specifications and in making consumers aware of them.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Societal issues, Risk management, Mutilation, Carcass quality, Processing
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