Animal Welfare Flashcards
Compare intensive farming with free range farming.
Intensive is less ethical than free-range due to poorer animal welfare.
Characteristics of intensive farming?
- more cost-effective
- poor animal welfare conditions
Characteristics of free-range farming?
- requires more land
- more labour intensive
- better quality of life
- sold for more
Long-term effects of good animal welfare?
Unstressed animals:
- grow more
- breed more successfully
- higher quality of products
Four behavioural indicators of poor animal welfare?
- stereotypy
- misdirected behaviour
- failure in sexual or parental behaviour
- altered levels of activity
What is stereotypy?
Repetitive behaviour - includes pacing, shaking and rocking from side to side.
What is misdirected behaviour?
Inappropriate direction of attention to itself or others and surroundings - includes chickens plucking feathers when stressed.
What is failure in sexual and parental behaviour?
Sexual - includes failure to breed successfully.
Parental - often occurs when young are removed too early and don’t know how to bring up their own offspring.
What are altered levels in activity?
Displaying hysteria (hyper aggression) or apathy (excessive sleeping).
How can you improve poor animal welfare?
- socialisation with their own kind
- foraging; looking for food
- making enclosures like their natural habitat
- space for natural exercise.
