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Contents

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.