3.4 animal welfare

Question 1

Define animal welfare

Answer 1

-providing livestock with good environmental conditions to live

Question 2

What are the 3 factors involved in animal welfare

Answer 2

• cost; using money to give animals improved environmental conditions
• benefits; content animals grow better, breed more successfully and give higher quality products
• ethics; moral values/rules to ensure humans allow animals to live without harm/neglect

Question 3

State the five freedoms

Answer 3

• freedom from hunger and thirst
• freedom from discomfort
• freedom from pain, injury and disease
• freedom to express normal behaviour
• freedom from fear/distress

Question 4

State the features of free range farming

Answer 4

• requires more land
• high levels of labour
• higher quality = higher selling price
• higher costs = lower profit
• animals have higher quality lofe

Question 5

State the features of intensive farming

Answer 5

• small and compact space
• low levels of labour
• low quality = low selling price
• low costs = higher profit
• lower quality life for animal

Question 6

State the 5 behavioural indicators of an animal living in poor conditions

Answer 6

• stereotypy
• misdirected behaviour
• failure in sexual behaviour
• failure in parental behaviour
• altered activity levels

Question 7

Define stereotypy

Answer 7

-when an animal shows repetitive behaviours that display aspects of distress in an enclosure

Question 8

Give examples of stereotypy

Answer 8

• pacing up and down
• biting objects
• excessive grooming

Question 9

Define misdirected behaviour

Answer 9

-where a normal behaviour is directed inappropriately usually onto the animal itself, the surroundings or others

Question 10

Give examples of misdirected behaviour

Answer 10

• birds over plucking their feathers

- gnawing solid objects

Question 11

Define failure in sexual behaviour

Answer 11

-where animals stop under going mating behaviours or stop being physically able

Question 12

Define failure in parental behaviour

Answer 12

-where animals fail to undergo their parental responsibilities

Question 13

Give examples of failure I’m parental behaviour

Answer 13

• abandoning their young

- being aggressive to their young (kill or eat them)

Question 14

Define altered levels of activity

Answer 14

-where animals behaviour are either really low (apathy) or very high (hysteria)

Question 15

Define apathy

Answer 15

-where the animal lies, sits or stands in the same position for prolonged periods of time

Question 16

Define hysteria

Answer 16

-where the animal moves about a lot more Ofer seems to be easily alarmed or in a state of pamic