Published in 2021
Scientific review of the various precision farming systems that can be used to manage the needs, health and monitoring of grazing livestock, allowing any threat to care plans or welfare to be quickly remedied.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Livestock farming system
Published in 2021
Technical paper discussing the importance of heat stress in poultry farming, its impact on laying hens, and strategies to combat heat stress.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Poultry
Keywords:Stress, Livestock farming system
Published in 2021
Scientific review on the benefits of combining ergonomics with applied ethology to study the links between animal welfare and the welfare of the livestock farmer. It proposes a new way of looking at the human-animal relationship in animal husbandry taking core concepts from both disciplines.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships, Stress, Livestock farming system
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
Systematic review of the scientific literature showing that the effect on overall welfare of environmental enrichment for farmed fish depends mainly on the type of enrichment, the taxon of the fish, and the welfare category.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Fish
Keywords:Enrichment, Living environment, Livestock farming system, Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
A scientific review of the use of data-based variables to detect animal welfare violations on farms, highlighting the fact that some of these variables are related to animal-based welfare measures. It recommends that the variables should be harmonised in light of the data they use, and that preference should be given to those that reflect the multidimensional nature of animal welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Precision farming, Welfare indicators, Livestock farming system
Published in 2021
Scientific article demonstrating that it is possible to improve some welfare conditions of fattening pigs in conventional farming through simple measures such as reducing stocking density and providing straw or hay as enrichment material.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Enrichment, Living environment, Stress, Livestock farming system
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
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