Farm animal welfare Flashcards
What are the sources of poor welfare?
- Cruelty
- Neglect
- Husbandry systems e.g. intensification, genetics
How can intensification lead to poor animal welfare?
- increased disease
- less individual animal attention
- social/behavioural issues
- reduction in grazing/outdoor production
- confined systems
How does an increasing human population affect the farm animal intensification?
Increased demand for animal protein
- may be unsustainable
- climate change
What are the effects of endemic diseases being too high?
- how to prevent?
- drug resistance
- new emerging diseases
- cost
What do the farm animal welfare committee advise for disease control?
- preventative medicine and health planning
- greater involvement of vets
- disease surveillance
- improve bio-security
How does competition affect international trade?
Drive prices down
- difficult to invest
- cost savings e.g. labour, vets, medicines
What aspects of poor welfare cost the industry money?
- Disease
- poor management
- inefficiency
At how many weeks are layers:
1) Reared?
2) Slaughtered?
1) 18 weeks
2) 60 weeks
What are problems commonly seen in egg laying chickens?
- Brittle bones
- Feather pecking
- Individual inspection
What are the issues surrounding free range/barn layers?
- predation
- group size
- disease control
What are the 3 types of boiler chicken rearing?
- intensive indoors
- less intensive indoors
- free range
How long is a sows pregnancy and how many litters are produced on average per year?
16 weeks
2 per year
How long is a sow allowed to be kept in a farrowing crate following birth?
4-6 weeks
What issues surround the rearing of pigs?
- boredom/frustration
- tail biting
- disease problem
What 3 mutilations can be done to growing pigs?
- tooth clipping
- castrations
- tail docking
