Organized by EURCAW-Poultry-SFA.

The webinar was held via Teams.

Target audience: Official inspectors from the Competent Authorities of the EU MSs

Attendance through invitation only.

The PDF of the presentation is available here.

The webinar recording is available here. 

Description:

Directive 98/58/EC concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes requires that Member States ensure that animals are kept under conditions respecting their physiological and ethological needs. Several indicators could be used to assess the welfare of turkeys on farms and will be presented during this webinar.

The aim of the webinar is to review the most valid and feasible indicators and their methods of assessment, with a focus on Animal Based Indicators. 

The webinar was attended by 138 people (189 registered), from 17 EU Member States:

Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,  Malta, The Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden.

Schedule:

10:00-10:15: Introduction and presentation of the Center – L.Vinco

10:15-11:00: Presentation of the assessment of welfare in turkeys on-farm using the most relevant indicators and their methods – F. Mocz, L.Vinco.

11:00-12:00: Questions/Discussion with the audience

This webinar has been organized within the sub-activity 4.2: Develop course material for specific topics, of the working program 2023-2024.