Published in 2021
Practical factsheet based on a summary of the literature and produced as part of the CASDAR BeBop project on the physiological and behavioural needs of fattening bullocks.
Document Types: Technical review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Human-animal relationships, Breeding and rearing system,Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
A scientific review of the different environmental enrichment strategies for farmed fish, their effects on welfare and their practical feasibility on an industrial scale.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Enrichment, Living environment, Breeding and rearing system
Published in 2021
A scientific review of the criteria for identifying and managing low-viability piglets at an early stage to increase their chances of survival, and proposal of measures to be taken in pregnant and lactating sows to reduce the proportion of low viability piglets.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Maternity, Prenatal, Weaning, Breeding and rearing system
Published in 2021
Presentation of the Aquatic Life Institute's 2021 report, highlighting the strong links between improved aquatic animal welfare and sustainable development. The report calls on policy makers to include aquatic animal welfare in their sustainable development policies.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Awareness, Pain, Societal issues, Living environment, Breeding and rearing systems, Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
Thematic dossier produced by the Coopération Agricole and based on three fundamental principles: a better understanding of animal welfare, concrete and pragmatic implementation of the concept across the French regions, and to offer a lasting picture of the pride taken by the agricultural professions in their work. The dossier points to the close links between the welfare of animals and that of the people who are in contact with them, and emphasises the benefits of the approaches it presents.
Document Types: Guides to Good Practice
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Breeding and rearing systems, Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
Scientific paper which estimates the prevalence of brevis fractures in laying hens in Denmark to range between 53 and 100% according to individual flocks in non-cage systems, and between 50 and 98% in cage systems. The major risk factors it identifies are hen size, age at onset of laying and daily egg weight at onset of laying.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Pain, Breeding and rearing systems
Published in 2021
Scientific paper presenting a very large-scale Czech retrospective analysis of traumatic lesions in poultry and rabbits detected post-mortem at abattoirs. It reveals a high incidence of limb lesions in chickens and rabbits, and on the thorax in rabbits, exposing the need for reexamination of rearing conditions, and of housing and/or handling before slaughter in particular, in the Czech Republic.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords: Housing, Living environment, Breeding and rearing systems,Pain
Published in 2021
Scientific paper postulating that welfare is a network system of causal interactions between and within an animal's behavioural, physiological and cognitive components. It proposes a statistical modelling of this network, which links the response variables related to welfare and uses scenarios to test and demonstrate how this approach can be used and the sorts of fresh ideas it can generate.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Keywords: Welfare indicators, Breeding and rearing systems
Published in 2021
Scientific paper describing the protocol to assess the welfare of dairy cattle in loose-housing systems using animal and non-animal based indicators that has been developed by the Italian Reference Centre for animal welfare. It uses the protocol to generate a list of 38 farming practices that will ensure a high level of welfare in dairy cattle.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Livestock system, Welfare indicator
Published in 2021
Scientific paper presenting an adaptation of the QBA qualitative welfare assessment method to farmed salmon and assessing its potential as a tool for monitoring salmon welfare.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Animal-based measurement, Livestock system, Welfare indicator
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