Report on Priorities in Animal Welfare Research and Development |
Common terms and phrases
abattoir alternative husbandry systems animal husbandry Animal Welfare Council applied in practice Appropriate housing systems Assessment AVOIDANCE OF MUTILATIONS broiler and laying cage system castration cattle chronic discomfort comfort and behaviour conventional husbandry corticosteroid debeaking distress dry SOWS eg artificial rearing eg skeletal ethological Evaluation Farm Animal Welfare farm species FAWC five freedoms flooring and bedding GPD QL 55 High priority Appropriate hormones husbandry by research Improved methods improved understanding indices of welfare infectious and non-infectious Lameness laying hens metabolic disease minimise Moderate priority Neonatal mortality obvious stressors physiological indices piglets from birth poor welfare poultry pre-slaughter handling preferred environments Priorities Board priority Appropriate housing priority areas rearing of piglets recognise reduce relating to animal Research and Development Respiratory disease skeletal disorders slaughter procedures sows and piglets stresses Stunning and slaughter stunning methods system for laying techniques for harvesting tendon thermal transport welfare and disease welfare eg welfare problems