Equine influenza
Published in 2023
WHOA web page with the updated WHOA Equine Standard on equine influenza
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords:Risk management, Transport
Keywords: Risk management
Welfare of ducks, geese and quail on farm
Published in 2023
Scientific opinion identifying the most common farming systems in the European Union for each species and category of animal. It describes and assesses the welfare consequences for each species of the following factors: restriction of movement, injury, group stress, inability to adopt comfort behavior, inability to adopt exploratory or foraging behavior and inability to express maternal behavior. It provides recommendations on how to predict negative welfare consequences using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements,Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Consciousness, Pain, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system
Welfare of dairy cows
Published in 2023
EFSA opinion identifying the main types of housing for dairy cows in Europe and, for each, the main strengths, weaknesses and risks likely to reduce animal welfare. It examines five specific negative welfare consequences: locomotor disorders, mastitis, restricted movement and resting problems, inability to adopt comfort behavior and metabolic disorders. It also analyzes a set of farm characteristics that could be used to classify the level of welfare on farms.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements,Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Consciousness, Pain, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system
Assemblée nationale : réponse écrite à la question n° 5241 : Chats errants
Published in 2023
Answer to a question concerning the delay in implementing the measures provided for by the French law passed in November 30, 2021 on the management of stray cats, in particular the failure to publish reports on the costed assessment of need or the estimated cost of capture and sterilization, to formulate recommendations, or to implement the trial provided for in Article 12 of the law.
Document Types: Technical work
Animal categories: Felines
Keywords: Adoption,Abandonment, Castration, One Welfare, Identification, Mistreatment, Risk management, Population management, Societal issues, Sterilization
Impact of water stress on adaptation and performance of sheep and goats in dryland regions under climate change scenarios: a systematic review
Published in 2023
Scientific article demonstrating that, despite changes affecting their physiology, blood, biochemistry and water and food consumption behaviors, sheep and goats can adapt to higher salinity levels in their drinking water in arid environments. Better adaptation is to be observed in local breeds, which prove to be more resilient.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories:Goats, Sheep
Keywords:Animal adaptation to its environment, Environment, Risk management, Resilience, Robustness, Stress, Societal issues
Animal welfare and effects of per-female stress on male and cattle reproduction - A review
Published in 2023
Scientific review setting out to identify, synthesize and discuss recent studies on the effects of heat stress on cattle reproduction. It seeks to identify and encourage possible strategies to mitigate the negative effects of heat stress on cattle reproduction.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Risk management, Housing, Living environment, Stress
Welfare of calves
Published in 2023
EFSA opinion identifying fifteen highly relevant negative welfare consequences, the most common being respiratory disorders, inability to engage in exploratory or foraging behavior, gastroenteric disorders and group stress. It recommends a space provision of at least 3m2 per calf, keeping the calf with its mother for a minimum of 24 hours, after which calves should be kept in stable groups and soft bedding should be provided.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal adaptation, Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system, Societal issues
Welfare of laying hens on farm
Published in 2023
EFSA opinion identifying the most important factors impacting on the welfare of laying hens: bone lesions, group stress, inability to avoid unwanted sexual behavior, inability to engage in comfort behavior, inability to engage in exploratory or foraging behavior, isolation stress, predation stress, resting problems, movement restriction, skin disorders, soft tissue lesions and integument lesions. It proposes animal-based measures to assess them, and sets out the risks related to different farming systems. Measures to prevent risks and mitigate welfare consequences are proposed. Recommendations are made to address specific welfare issues for laying hens.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Consciousness, Enrichment, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Mutilation, Stress, Livestock farming system, Societal issues, Pain
Welfare of broilers on farm
Published in 2023
EFSA opinion that identifies 19 major welfare consequences for broilers, animal-based measures to assess them, risks related to different farming systems and animal-based measures to assess them. Measures to prevent risks and mitigate welfare consequences are proposed. Recommendations are made to address specific welfare issues for broilers. Indicators for monitoring the welfare of broilers at slaughter are proposed.
Document Types: Opinions
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Animal-based measurements, Consciousness, Enrichment, Risk management, Welfare indicators, Housing, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Mutilation, Stress, Livestock farming system, Societal issues, Pain
Visites sanitaires obligatoires dans la filière porcine : lancement de la campagne 2023-2024
Published in 2023
Technical Instruction giving details on the implementation of the 2023-24 on-farm visit programme for pig welfare. The visits are intended to check that farmers are familiar with the relevant regulations, to give them advice tailored to their farms, to make them aware of the risks involved in tail docking and to remind them of the regulations concerning tail docking, on-farm welfare advisors and the cessation of castration of piglets without anaesthetic.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Working animals, Animal mediation, Enrichment, Risk management, Mutilation, Human-animal relationships, Pain,, Stress, Welfare indicators
