Published in 2025
Guide published by the Spanish aquaculture industry, describing the good practices to ensure rainbow trout welfare. It proposes specific indicators appropriate to each farming phase, while emphasizing the importance of training, sustainability and a stronger legal framework.
Document Types: Good practice guide
Animal categories: Fish
Published in 2024
Review examining the factors influencing the welfare of yellow mealworms in farming, such as abiotic conditions, nutrition, intra/interspecific interactions and slaughter methods. Practical recommendations and research directions are suggested that would improve and anticipate welfare issues in this rapidly expanding sector.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Insects
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Euthanasia, Welfare indicators, Living environment, Stress
Published in 2024
Results of a survey carried out in Brittany on free-range sow management practices in the insemination period identifying three main strategies: LIBIA (confinement from weaning until completion of insemination, then group housing), LIBSEVIA (group housing from weaning, temporary confinement for insemination period, followed by rapid release), and LIBSEV (group housing of sows from weaning with temporary confinement for each AI). Each method has its advantages, necessary precautions and points to watch out for.
Document types: Technical Paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Livestock buildings, Housing, Restraint equipment, Maternity, One Welfare
Published in 2024
Study examining the social dynamics of gilts through pregnancy in an outdoor system, analyzing their feeding and social behaviors, and the effects of these dynamics on the group and their offspring. Results show links between social rank, salivary cortisol levels and piglet weight, highlighting the importance of integrating social behavior into management and genetic selection practices to improve pig welfare.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Aggression, Aggressivity, Welfare indicators, Lactation, Maternity, Personality, Prenatal issues, Socialization
Published in 2024
Review of the development and management of large litters in pig farming.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Porcines
Keywords:Lactation, Maternity, Evolutionary processes
Published in 2024
Study showing that mechanical brushes are used differently by dairy cows at different stages of lactation, improving body cleanliness and milk production, particularly in multiparous cows.
Document Types: Scientific paper
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords: Animal-based measurements,Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Enrichment, Lactation, Housing
Published in 2024
Sitrep on technological advances in precision farming (sensors and AI), now essential tools to monitor herd health and detect anomalies at an early stage.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines
Keywords:Animal-based measurements, Precision farmingWelfare indicators, livestock farming systemBehavioural disorders
Published in 2024
Literature review on ostrich welfare using text mining and thematic analysis for 122 articles published between 1983 and 2023. The main topics identified were health and management, feeding, reproductive welfare, egg production and welfare during transport. Despite an increase in research since 1994, further studies are needed to better protect ostrich welfare.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal Categories:Birds (excluding poultry)
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Housing, Living environment, Transport, Welfare indicators
Published in 2024
Scientific synthesis highlighting the anatomical and physiological alterations undergone by high-production livestock, leading to an imbalance between their natural capacities and the demands of industrial production. It calls for an ethical approach to animal welfare, focusing on their physiological limits, for more sustainable and respectful production.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories: Bovines, Caprines, Ovines, Porcines, Poultry
Keywords:Adaptation of the animal to the environment, Societal issues, Evolutionary processes, Resilience, Robustness
Published in 2024
Summary article describing environmental stress and its negative impacts on rabbit welfare and productivity, causing disease and problem behavior. Environmental enrichment helps reduce this stress by meeting the natural behavioral needs of rabbits, thereby improving their welfare and performance.
Document Types: Scientific review
Animal categories:Monogastric
Keywords:Adaptation of the environment to the animal, Aggression, Aggressiveness, Animal-based measurements, Enrichment, Welfare indicators, Housing, Stress, Behavioural disorders
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