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: Guides to Good Practice
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Equines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Transport
Published in 2023
Study on the welfare of the main fish species farmed in the European Union. It includes the state of knowledge of fish welfare and identifies gaps, the needs of fish, and farming methods that cause problems in fish welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Livestock systems, Stress, Welfare indicators
Published in 2023
Scientific review of transport and slaughter procedures in Europe since the European regulations on animal transport and welfare came into force in 2009. It identifies the factors affecting animal welfare during these two phases of a farmed animal's life.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Anxiety, Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Transport
Published in 2023
Answer to a question on whether the government will support an end to cage farming as part of the revision of European regulations, and whether it intends to raise its ambitions at European level in order to play a leading role in promoting better animal welfare standards and improving European farming methods.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories:Cattle, Pigs, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Living environment, Societal issues, Stress, Farming system
Published in 2023
Scientific review providing a critical analysis of the main approaches to zoo animal welfare assessment and describing the most relevant animal-based welfare indicators for zoo animals, with a particular focus on behavioral and physiological indicators.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Wildlife
Keywords:Animal adaptation to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Societal issues, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Stress
Published in 2023
Scientific review of different social management strategies in dairy calf rearing taking account of three animal welfare domains: biological functioning and animal health, affective states or cognitive judgment, and natural way of life. The main problems identified concern social housing with conspecifics, separation from the mother, and human-animal interactions. The authors stress the need to standardize good socialization practices for dairy calves.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal adaptation to environment, Enrichment, Housing, Maternal, Human-animal relationships, Socialization, Stress
Published in 2023
Scientific review of alternative piglet management strategies to reduce weaning stress. These include the pre-weaning grouping of piglets from different litters and intermittent suckling. Their effects on post-weaning pig behavior, performance, mortality, gastrointestinal function and immunocompetence are described.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Aggression, Aggressivity, Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Housing, Weaning, Stress
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: Guides to Good Practice
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Awareness, Pain, Societal issues, Stress
Published in 2023
Systematic literature review using 8 previously validated animal sentience criteria to assess whether 6 insect orders are capable of feeling pain. Adult Diptera and Blattodea meet 6 of the 8 criteria, constituting "strong evidence for pain", while the adults and some juveniles from the other orders tested meet 3-4 criteria, constituting "substantial evidence for pain".
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Insects
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Brain integration, Pain, Welfare indicators, Stress
Published in 2023
Scientific article defining pain, differentiating it from nociception, and recalling work that has led to the conclusion that most of the 6 largest insect orders are very likely capable of feeling pain. It concludes that this fact should be taken into account by entomologists, and suggests extending the 3Rs rule (replace, reduce, refine) to insect research.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Insects
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Brain integration, Pain, Welfare indicators, Stress
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