The content will introduce the course participant to the following topics:
- Animal welfare and ethics; the ‘isms’, the different stakeholders, measuring vs. assessing animal welfare.
- Definition of animal welfare; the different approaches ‘nature’, ‘biological functioning’, ‘emotions’.
- Different goals, different methods: General guidelines, Decisions support for the farmer, Certification/classification.
- Hands on on-farm welfare assessment in sow or cow herd.
- Aggregation of animal welfare indicators / Animal welfare index.
- Communicating animal welfare.
- Validating animal welfare assessment systems.