Animal Welfare in Practice
How can scientific principles be applied in practice to improve the welfare of animals? Find out more in this Toolbox section. Click on the tool topics below to learn more about environmental enrichment, animal training, and on-farm assessment.
This tool is a concise resource designed to enhance the welfare of mice by employing refined handling methods. Tailored to a broad audience, this resource gives an overview of the scientific evidence demonstrating the welfare benefits of refined handling methods, as well as giving guidance and tips for all those working with or those keeping mice as pets. This tool provides essential knowledge and guidance required for implementing these methods.
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This handling tool is a concise yet comprehensive resource designed to enhance cattle welfare through improved human-animal relationships and understanding of cattle behaviour. Tailored to a broad audience in the livestock industry, it offers practical insights into decoding cattle behaviour and implementing best handling practices. This tool provides essential knowledge and guidance for fostering an adequate and effective interaction with cattle, ultimately promoting their welfare and productivity.
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This animal welfare tool offers effective, practical while low-cost suggestions to enhance the mental well-being of pets in a home environment. It outlines fundamental concepts of food enrichment, providing pet owners with accessible guidance for creating a stimulating environment. It is designed to support pet owners in fostering a happy and mentally healthy atmosphere for their pets at home.
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This video outlines the importance of understanding animal behaviour to promote optimal welfare. It summarises why animals perform behaviour, the difference between reward-based animal training and aversive-based training as well as the risks of not using reward-based training when interacting with animals. It contains information that can be beneficial to anyone caring for any species of animal, whether that be their pets or in the workplace.
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This tool teaches the importance of accounting for circadian rhythms in animal welfare, and how to incorporate circadian rhythms into welfare assessments, particularly for animals in captive environments. It is useful for anyone working within establishments that house animals, from zoos, farms, and research facilities. It gives information to allow an evidence-based approach to designing environments for captive animals, creating baselines in welfare assessments, or simply gaining an understanding of adaptive physiology and behaviour for animal care and conservation.
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This tool summarizes the key concepts that can be applied in a husbandry system to improve goat welfare. The key concepts are presented in coloured blocks, which represent different the different aspects that characterize a potential goat husbandry system: the environment, nutrition, management and health. These concepts can be used by those who are starting to raise goats as an overview of the recommendations to consider for the well-being of their animals, or by those who are already breeders and want to make improvements in their goats’ welfare.
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