16 September 2025
Maintaining high-quality litter (meaning dry and friable) is a primary...
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Indicator factsheet about Litter quality visual assessment in broiler sheds
Published on
16/09/2025
Maintaining high-quality litter (meaning dry and friable) is a primary objective in the management of poultry houses, as poor-quality litter could have significant consequences on the health and welfare of birds.
The assessment of litter quality can be done through various instrumental methods requiring time for analyses and/or specific costly equipment. In contrast, visual assessment can be conducted without any instruments, is instantaneous, and easily feasible.
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A new Master’s programme in Animal Welfare Assessment
Published on
16/09/2025
Aarhus University in Denmark has launched a new Master’s programme in Animal Welfare Assessment. The target audience is primarily for animal welfare inspectors employed by competent authorities.
“The Master in Animal Welfare Assessment has been established to provide further education for professionals who, directly or indirectly, work with animal welfare in their daily activities. The programme originates from the EU Animal Welfare Strategy (2012-2015), which assesses...
EURCAW-Poultry-SFA’s tenth scientific article
Published on
05/06/2025
The Centre is celebrating the publication of its tenth scientific article as a result of the work carried out in Activity 3 in 2023-2024.
The aim of this study was to study the impacts of a covered veranda on broiler chicken welfare.
This article named "Positive impacts of a covered veranda on broiler chicken welfare" has been published in Poultry Science and is available here.
4 EURCAWs meeting - Heraklion 13-14 May
Published on
28/04/2025
From 13-14 May, EURCAW Aqua hosted the annual meeting of the 4 EURCAWs in Heraklion. More than 40 professionals from all four EURCAWs (EURCAW Aqua, EURCAW Ruminants & Equines, EURCAW-Pigs, and EURCAW-Poultry-SFA) gathered to exchange knowledge, strengthen collaboration, and discuss future directions. A World Café to discuss topics such as how to improve the format of factsheets, quality assurance during the peer-review process, training initiatives and the community of practice was...
EURCAW-Poultry-SFA’s ninth scientific article
Published on
18/02/2025
The Centre is celebrating the publication of its ninth scientific article as a result of the work carried out in Activity 3 in 2023-2024.
The aim of this study was to study the relevant indicators of consciousness after head-only electrical stunning in rabbits in commercial conditions.
This article named "Relevant Indicators of Consciousness After Head-Only Electrical Stunning in Rabbits, Stunning Efficiency, and Risk Factors in Commercial Conditions"...
Infographics on pullets' outdoor and litter access
Published on
03/02/2025
The EURCAW-Poultry-SFA is proud of presenting you its two latest infographics, issued respectively from two Q2E answers, realized in collaboration with La Chaire bien-être animal:
Outdoor access for pullets (available in ENG and FR)
Pullets access to litter for dustbathing (available in EN and FR)
You can have access to the Q2E answers following the links below:
Answer-Q2E-Poultry-SFA-2021-001
Answer_Q2E-Poultry-SFA-2022-008
EURCAW-Poultry-SFA’s eighth scientific article
Published on
09/12/2024
The Centre is celebrating the publication of its eighth scientific article as a result of the work carried out in Activity 3 in 2023-2024.
The aim of this study was to assess the performance of latency-to-lie tests without the addition of water, making them more practical for use on farm.
This article named "Research Note: Testing the validity of latency-to-lie tests without water for objective on-farm assessment of walking ability of broiler chickens" has...
EURCAW Aqua website now available
Published on
21/11/2024
EURCAW Aquatic Animals has their website up and running.
Like the other EURCAWs, Aqua will be posting all of their publications, news and training on their website.
To access the website, visit https://www.eurcaw-aqua.eu/
NordCAW Conference 2024 on Poultry Welfare
Published on
20/11/2024
On November,13th 2024, Anja B. Riber participated in the NordCAW Poultry Welfare Conference 2024, at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala, Sweden.
Her oral communication was entitled "What’s on the European poultry welfare agenda". The talk addressed specific poultry welfare topics that are currently of interest to many EU stakeholders, including growth rate of broilers, on-farm hatching; male layer chicks, keel bone fracture, end-of...
EURCAW-POULTRY-SFA'S SEVENTH SCIENTIFIC ARTICLE
Published on
07/11/2024
The Centre is celebrating the publication of its seventh scientific article as a result of the work carried out in Activity 3 in 2023-2024.
This study evaluated the validity, inter-assessor reliability and intra-assessor repeatability of three visual scoring systems for litter quality, one known as the Welfare Quality Assessment Protocol© and two complementary systems for friability and humidity developed by the ClassyFarm initiative.
This article named...