Eight new initiatives within Welfare Quality®

As a result of many suggestions of stakeholders as well as the outcome of the first Conference in 2005

eight new initiatives have started in 2007 within the Welfare Quality®project.

These eight initiatives are:

· On-farm Economic Implications of Improved Animal Welfare;

· Field assessment of a ‘tail-chew’ test to predict tail-biting on pig farms;

· Development of a monitoring system for dairy calves and rearing heifers;

· Monitoring broiler welfare parameters at slaughter using video imaging;

· Development of a prototype training package for farmers to improve their human-farm animals relationship;

· The information requirement on welfare products at food service outlets;

· On-farm monitoring of buffalo welfare;

· A European Animal Welfare Platform.