Welfare of Farm Animals

Farm Animal Welfare Committee (2014). Evidence and the Welfare of Farmed Animals Part 1: The Evidence Base: Farm Animal Welfare Committee. Defra Farm Animal Welfare Committee

Science-based assessment of animal welfare: farm animals.

Animal welfare is to do with the feelings experienced by animals: the absence of strong negative feelings, usually called suffering, and (probably) the presence of positive feelings, usually called pleasure. In any assessment of welfare, it is these feelings that should be assessed. Because feelings are subjective, they cannot be investigated directly. However, there are indirect methods by whi...

Intensive Farming and the Welfare of Farm Animals

To live like a pig in an intensive environment Page 4 To live like a pig in a natural environment Page 6 Laying hens Page 8 Meat chickens Page 10 Selective breeding Page 12 Alternatives to factory farming Page 14 Legislation on farm animal welfare Page 16 Feeding the world – environment and resource implications Page 18 Factory farming and rural employment Page 20 Why should we care about farm ...

Welfare monitoring schemes: using research to safeguard welfare of animals on the farm.

There are a number of nonhuman animal welfare monitoring schemes for animals on the farm in Australia and in other countries. Although the majority of such schemes are voluntary rather than legislated, some are nevertheless enforced through a number of customer requirements that industries must meet to gain access to markets. Animal welfare monitoring schemes rely on a number of measures, but t...

Molecular Markers for Fertility in Farm Animals

A genetic marker is a gene or DNA sequence with known localization on a chromosome. It can be de-scribed as a variation that can be measured or detected by a suitable method, and can be used subsequently to detect the presence of a specific genotype. Such variations occurring at chromosomal or DNA level can serve as genetic markers. The progress in development of molecular markers suggests thei...