Published in 1976
Dispositions relatives à la protection des animaux de compagnie
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Canines, Felines, Exotic pets
Keywords:Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Welfare indicators
Published in 2014
Order laying down the animal health and protection rules that must be met in activities involving companion animals from domestic species
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Canines, Felines
Keywords:Enrichment, Housing, Living environment, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
Decree clarifying the definition of what constitutes a new or refurbished building, which effectively limits the ban on the keeping of hens in cages to buildings where production capacity is increased.
Document types: Regulation/Certification
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Societal issues, Housing
Published in 2021
Scientific paper showing that a reduction in the period length of sow restraint during lactation reduces stress and improves the welfare of sows and their piglets and improves production with more weaned piglets and higher weights. It therefore improves the economics of pig farming.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Lactation, Housing, Maternity, Living environment, Stress, Livestock farming system,Societal issues
Published in 2021
Scientific review presenting the results of a multi-year study on the capacity of perches containing a cooling circuit to reduce heat stress in laying hens. It demonstrates the effectiveness of this cooling system when combined with an enrichment element in reducing body heat and heat stress in laying hens.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Enrichment, Housing, Livestock farming system
Published in 2021
A scientific review examining the effects of housing systems on pig behaviour and performance. Free-range housing solves the behavioural problems encountered for pigs raised indoors, but is associated with a more frequent occurrence of injuries and of some elbow and hock lesions.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Housing, Livestock farming system,Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
Article demonstrating that the French organic label guarantees higher animal welfare standards than conventional farming, providing access to outdoors, banning cage rearing and tethered systems, allowing only exceptional authorisation of non-medical surgical interventions, and requiring more frequent checks and compulsory stunning before slaughter. However, the legislation on transport and slaughter is still inadequate, even in the case of organic farming.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Housing, Living environment, Mutilation, Livestock farming system, Transport,Societal issues
Published in 2021
The CIWF's first ChickenTrack 2021 report, an EggTrack-based tool to track the progress of major food companies that have signed up to the Better Chicken Commitment to improve broiler welfare in, for example, the reduction of stocking densities, environmental enrichment, and the raising of slower-growing strains.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Housing, Human-animal relationships, Societal issues
Published in 2021
Scientific review noting a growing interest among scientists in Oceania, Latin America and Asia in the welfare issues for pregnant sows, as well as the emergence of new research topics in recent years, including group sow management and environmental enrichment.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords: Enrichment, Housing, Living environment,Societal issues
Published in 2021
Scientific paper describing a framework to assess the welfare of farmed fish, based on 80 indicators grouped into 5 modules: farm management, water quality, fish group behaviour, external appearance and internal appearance of fish. An application has been developed to facilitate its use.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Housing, Stress, Livestock farming system, Welfare indicators
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