Farmer perspectives on welfare outcome assessment: learnings from four farm assurance scheme consultation exercises
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, dairy, farm assurance schemes, farmer perspectives, laying hens, outcome-based measures
2018
Animal welfare initiatives improve feather cover of cage-free laying hens in the UK
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, farm assurance, feather loss, hen, industry, policy
2016
Standardising the assessment of environmental enrichment and tail-docking legal requirements for finishing pigs in Europe
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, enrichment, inspector, legislation, pig, tail docking
2016
Best practice framework for animal welfare certification schemes
Publication/Journal: Trends in Food Science & Technology
Keywords: animal welfare certification, best practices
2014
Implementing Welfare Quality® in UK assurance schemes: evaluating the challenges
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, dairy cow, focus group, on-farm assessment, score aggregation, welfare quality®
2014
Economic, education, encouragement and enforcement influences within farm assurance schemes
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, economic, education, encouragement, enforcement, farm assurance
2012
Welfare outcomes assessment in laying hen farm assurance schemes
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, farm assurance, feather loss, laying hen, sampling, welfare outcomes
2012
A pilot investigation of Farm Assurance assessors’ attitude to farm animal welfare as a confounding factor to training in pig welfare outcome measures
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, attitude to animals, farm assurance, inter-observer reliability, pig, welfare outcome
2011
A pilot investigation of possible positive system descriptors in finishing pigs
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, farm assurance, farming system, husbandry, pig, welfare outcomes
2011
Welfare science into practice: a successful case example of working with industry
Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare
Keywords: animal welfare, farm assurance, industry, pigs, research, science
2011