5 Domains Flashcards
Helps the evaluation of animal welfare risks and opportunities for welfare imporvement
Five domains
‘Survival-critical’
Physical/functional domains:
Nutrition
Physical environment
Health
Situational Domain
Behavioral interactions
Factors that enable animals’ access to drink sufficient and good quality water and eat an appropriate quantity and good quality foods
Nutrition
Factors that enable comfort through appropriate temperature, substrate, space, air, odor, noise, and predictability
Physical environment
More freedom to express normal behavior but prone to under diagnosed diseases
Outdoor management systems
Provision of space and suitable resources, that allows normal species-typical behaviors to be expressed
Physical environment
To meet animals’ behavioral needs, whilst preserving the positive benefits of shelter and protection
Physical environment
Factors that promote good health through a good fitness level and the absence of disease and injuries
Health
Crude indicator of health and welfare
Morbidity and mortality
MORE SENSITIVE INDICATORS OF HEALTH
Body condition score
Body temperature
Presence of lesions or parasite
Cleanliness
Changes in behavior
MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES THAT CAN CAUSE PAIN COMMONLY PERFORMED IN FARM ANIMALS
Castration
Removal of horns and extra teats of cattle
Trimming beak tips and claws of poultry
Tail docking in cattle, sheep, and pigs
Factors that provide interactions with the environment, with varied and novel environmental challenges, with availability of engaging choices, through sensory stimulation, exploration, and foraging
Behavioral interactions
