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:Consciousness, Pain, Societal issues, Living environment, Livestock farming system, Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
Thematic dossier from the Coopérative Agricole, based on three fundamental principles: improving understanding of animal welfare, putting it into practice in a practical and pragmatic way in France and its territories, and providing a sustainable picture of the pride the agricultural professions take in their work. The dossier emphasises the close links between the welfare of animals and of those who work with them and highlights the benefits of the approaches it describes.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Societal issues, Human-animal relationships, Livestock farming system, 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, Livestock farming system
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, Livestock farming system,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, Livestock farming system
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 measurements, Livestock farming system, Welfare indicators
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 measurements, Livestock farming system, Welfare indicators
Published in 2021
Technical paper setting out the advantages and disadvantages of the two main techniques for socialising piglets housed indoors: one allows piglets to move freely between farrowing pens but not dams, and the other allows dams and piglets to interact freely. The outcomes of early socialisation are not only behavioural (more play, less aggression) but also physiological, with lower metabolic energy levels that could explain reductions in stress and aggression.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Pain, Mutilation, Weaning, Stress, Livestock farming system
Published in 2021
Scientific review of the effect of music on the emotional state of animals. It recommends that available information on the sensory systems and behaviours of each species should be taken into account so that music can be selected in light of the desired emotional response from the animal, thereby improving its well-being.
Document Types: Scientific review
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Enrichment, Living environment, Livestock farming system
Published in 2021
Scientific paper to evaluate the relationship between levels of animal welfare and the use of antimicrobials in Italian dairy farms. No relationship could be found between these two factors. The use of category B antimicrobials and of intramammary treatments in dry cows were linked to levels of staff training.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Antibiotic resistance, Environment, Livestock farming system, Societal issues
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