11 December 2025
The Selection Guide is online! ...
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Selection of the most appropriate depopulation method for the welfare of poultry
Published on
11/12/2025
The Selection Guide is online!
This selection guide has been developed for competent authorities, but it is available to any interested party. It is structured as a hierarchy of decision trees designed to determine whether a given depopulation method can be used while ensuring poultry welfare.
Have a look here.
For more information visit our sub-page here.
3 New Q2Es on Broiler Cannibalism
Published on
08/12/2025
Three new 'Question to EURCAWs' (Q2Es) hve been published on Broiler Cannibalism:
- Q2E-2025-006: Broiler Cannibalism Causative Factors availalbe here: https://zenodo.org/records/17484921;
- Q2E-2025-006: Broiler Cannibalism Prevention availalbe here: https://zenodo.org/records/17485033.;
- Q2E-2025-007: Broiler Cannibalism Emergency Measures availalbe here: https://zenodo.org/records/17856303.
To see more, take a look at and at...
Knowledge pill: How long can they stand?
Published on
05/12/2025
How long can broilers stand?
We have created our first Knowledge Pill about determining the walking ability in broilers using the latency-to-lie test.
Walking ability is a relevant animal-based indicator of #welfare in broilers, and the latency-to-lie test is an alternative method to the traditional gait scoring assessment.
Do you want to know more? See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRzrWv29CcQ
New review
Published on
03/11/2025
Our recently published review in English about rabbits describes environmental enrichments in farmed rabbits.
This review aims to provide a comprehensive synthesis of recent findings on environmental enrichment for breeding does and growing rabbits, focusing on the main categories of enrichment including social, sensory, physical, occupational and nutritional types, and their documented effects on animal welfare, integrating behavioural, physiological, and...
New Iceberg indicator factsheet
Published on
26/09/2025
Our recently published factsheet in English about rabbits, describes heat stress in farmed rabbits.
On top of direct welfare indicators that can be used to assess it, the use of resource and management-based indicators is suggested and described.
For more information see the rabbits on-farm welfare webpage.
A new Q2E is online!
Published on
19/09/2025
A new 'Question to EURCAW' (Q2E) has been published on “Culling individuals”.
To see more, take a look at https://zenodo.org/records/17157586 and at our Question to EURCAW's subpage!
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...