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Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 8 (NaTiMon)
Project
Project code: 28N1800031
Contract period: 01.06.2020
- 14.12.2021
Budget: 285,501 Euro
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Keywords: poultry, husbandry techniques, indicators, monitoring, animal health, animal welfare, stable climate, cattle, pigs, stable building, sheep, goat
Farm Animal Welfare is a controversial topic of growing public interest. At the same time, there is a lack of reliable information on the status quo of the welfare in German farm animals. Data on animal-based indicators for all relevant health areas (eg. lameness, injuries), animal behaviour and affectives states, resource-based indicators (eg. space allowance, feeing place, housing system) as well as management-based indicators (eg. feeding regime, duration of suckling period, outdoor access) are scarce and not collected systematically. Data that could be used to assess animal welfare are collected regularly (eg. meat inspection, milk recording scheme, antibiotic consumption), however, their use is limited due to: - data not collected in a standardized manner - data available only for specific types of production - there is no legal basis for using data of eg. the animal trading databas (HIT) for the purpose of animal welfare assessment The aim of this project is to lay the foundations for a regular, indicator-based report on the welfare status of the most important small ruminant species in Germany, i.e. sheep and goats, and its evolution over time. This welfare monitoring will take into account several dimensions of animal welfare in the relevant life stages (husbandry, transport, slaughter). The following work packages will be included: 1. Evaluation of existing information on a science-based preselection of potential welfare indicators, development of a synopsis 2. Stakeholder analysis, selection of indicators with involvement of stakeholders 3. Field-tests of suitability of indicators (survey on farms, transport, slaughterhouses), determination of data-collection costs if possible 4. Data-processing for the animal welfare monitoring (incl. monitoring report) and assessment of the respective costs, if possible. 5. Publication of a proto-type for an animal welfare monitoring report (print and online) 6. Development of policy recommendations for the implementation of regular animal welfare monitoring The following events are planned to be conducted: - project meetings at least twice a year - information exchange with ongoing welfare projects and industry nationally as well as in the neighbouring countries: one event - closing event together with the NaTiMon project
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal Husbandry
- Agricultural Technology Animal Production
- Animal health
- Special animal species
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Associated projects: NaTiMon
- Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 3
- Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 4
- Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 7
- Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 6
- Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 5
