Overall animal welfare assessment reviewed. Assessment tables and schemes

M.B.M. Bracke, B.M. Spruijt, J.H.M. Metz

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    Abstract

    In the scientific literature several attempts have been made to systematically assess the overall welfare-status of animals in relation to housing and management. This paper reviews assessment tables and schemes that have been constructed to this end. These tables and schemes have a tabular format that allows an assessment of housing systems using a list of welfare-relevant attributes (properties of the housing system). Rather than identifying deficits, the focus of this review is on finding positive recommendations for the purpose of developing a method for overall welfare assessment (OWA) on a scientific basis. The main recommendation is to use the tabular format as representation formalism for OWA. The concept of linked tables provides the key to performing OWA on a scientific basis in an explicit and systematic way.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)293-305
    JournalNetherlands Journal of Agricultural Science
    Volume47
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1999

    Keywords

    • Assessment tables
    • Model

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