Rencontre BEA au Salon International de l’Agriculture 2023 : Révision de la réglementation sur le bien-être animal : des initiatives françaises à porter à l’Europe – présentations des intervenants
Published in 2023
Welcome to the scientific and technical resource
platform of the FRCAW
The reference documents on animal welfare available from this hub have been selected by the expert members of the FRCAW steering committee.
The hub provides access to various types of document covering all the sectors and species that fall within the FRCAW's remit:
- scientific documents that have been subject to an independent peer-review process, including expert opinions, articles, longer works, overviews and reviews
- regulatory documents and certifications
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This platform is regularly updated.
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Total: 942 documents on the resource platform
Renouvellement de la convention-cadre du Centre national de référence pour le bien-être animal
Published in 2023
Animal categories: All animals
Keywords: All subjects
A method for calculating the external costs of farm animal welfare based on the Welfare Quality® Protocol
Published in 2023
This article presents a method for estimating the external costs of farm animal welfare, to help decision-making in the development and adoption of more welfare-friendly production systems. It includes the calculation of a relationship between the animal welfare score and the costs of animal welfare measures on the farm. It has been tested and validated on a dairy cattle farm, a pig farm and a poultry farm.
Document types : Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Key word: Modeling, One Welfare, Societal issues
A six-step process to explore facial expressions performances to detect pain in dairy cows with lipopolysaccharide-induced clinical mastitis
Published in 2023
Study identifying 7 facial action units from the orbital and auricular regions and from the mouth and muzzle for detecting mild pain associated with induced inflammatory mastitis in dairy cows. It uses a six-step process including expression, selectivity, intra- and inter-observer reliability and measurement error (specificity and sensitivity).
Document types : Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements, Pain, Welfare indicators, Human-animal relationships
Advancing the quantitative characterization of farm animal welfare
Published in 2023
Paper developing welfare indicators for use in life cycle assessment (LCA) and different ways of aggregating them, then testing them on British pig farms. It shows that farms in the same LCA class have the same types of quality labels, and that the details of the way in which LCA welfare measures are established have little impact on the classification of farms based on their welfare levels.
Document types : Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords: Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Animal-based measurements, Environment, Welfare indicators, Living environment
Analysis of Various Facial Expressions of Horses as a Welfare Indicator Using Deep Learning
Published in 2023
Article using deep learning to identify various facial expressions that can be used as indicators of well-being in horses. It proposes a model for automatic recognition of facial expressions including eyes, nose and ears to distinguish horses in various situations: at rest, in pain, immediately after exercise and being shod.
Document types : Scientific paper
Animal categories: Equines
Keywords: Animal-based measurement, Castration, Pain, Precision breeding, Welfare indicator, Sterilization
