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Welfare Assessment of Farms Animals

The European Welfare Quality® project developed standardized ways of assessing animal welfare and a standardized way of integrating this information to enable farms and slaughterhouses to be assigned to one of four categories (from poor, to good animal welfare).
One of the innovations of the Welfare Quality® animal welfare assessment system is that it focuses more on animal-based measures (e.g. directly related to animal body condition, health aspects, injuries, behaviour, etc.). Existing approaches largely concentrate on design or management-based characteristics (e.g. size of cage or pen, flooring specifications etc.) Of course, this does not mean that resource-based or management-based factors are ignored in Welfare Quality®; and many of these are important features of the system. A particular attraction of using animal-based measures is that they show the ‘outcome’ of the interaction between the animal and its environment (housing design and management) and this combined outcome is assessed by the Welfare Quality® assessment system.

Within the Welfare Quality® project, these assessment protocols have been developed through the collaboration of a large number of research groups and institutes. Read more...

To more about basic principles underlying the Welfare Quality® scoring system click here.

The protocols can be downloaded from The Welfare Quality Network website.
http://www.welfarequality.net/en-us/news/assessment-protocols.


The Welfare Quality Network focuses on scientific exchange and activities to contribute to the further development of the Welfare Quality® animal welfare assessment systems. The Welfare Quality Network also aims to provide relevant knowledge and services to support actors in animal production chains who would like to implement or use the Welfare Quality® animal welfare assessment systems.