Implementing effective animal-based measurements for assessing animal welfare on farms and slaughter plants.
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Abstract This chapter describes how to write clear animal welfare standards and guidelines that will be interpreted the same way by different people; the difference between animal-based outcome measures and input resource-based standards; how to determine the most important core criteria or critical points to prevent abuse or neglect; easy-to-use measures for assessing body condition, lameness, injuries, condition of haircoat/feathers, animal handling, hygiene, heat and cold stress and the presence of abnormal behaviour and how to set up effective animal welfare auditing programmes.
2020 ◽
Vol 10
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pp. 44-67
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2011 ◽
Vol 8
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pp. 588-599
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2016 ◽
Vol 49
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pp. 153
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