Animal welfare: Guiding principles of animal welfare (OIE)
- Five freedoms (free from hunger, malnutrition, fear, physical/thermal discomfort and pain/injury/disease)
- 3R (reduction, refinement and replacement)
- Ethical responsibility and wellbeing of people
- Good welfare = good production
- Dont sell pets to people under 16
Animal welfare: Lisbon treaty
In formulating and implementing the Union’s agriculture, fisheries, transport, internal market, research and technological development and space policies, the Union and the Member States shall, since animals are sentient beings, pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals, while respecting the legislative or administrative provisions and customs of the Member States relating in particular to religious rites, cultural traditions and regional heritage.”
Animal welfare: Killing of animals
- Acceptable reasons are the following: especially food production, fur production, population control, incurable disease, injury, risk of infection, pest control, prevention of an otherwise unavoidable attack, and scientific research.
- Killed after stunning. The obligation of stunning does not apply to invertebrate animals, to poultry and rabbits slaughtered for home consumption
Animal welfare: Criminal offences
- A criminal offense is committed with intent if the person mean to cause harm.
- An act of crime is committed by criminal negligence where the person knowingly avoids the duties of the animal
Animal welfare: Keeping of dangerous animals/dogs
- Need special permission
- “Dangerous” is defined by the authorities
- Dog fights are also illegal
Protection of pet animals: Killing
The chosen method, except in an emergency, shall either:
o Cause immediate loss of consciousness and death, or
o Begin with the induction of deep general anaesthesia
Protection of pet animals: Special surgeries
Alteration of looks is prohibited, except for castration and maintenance of breed characteristics
Protection of pet animals: Euthanasia
The termination of life of the animal can be initiated by its owner, the notary, or the regional authority of the state responsible for nature preservation.
Experimental: Which animals
Live non-human vertebrae animals and live cephalopods
Experimental: Establishments
- Breeding establishment: establishment where animals are propagated and reared with a view to their use in experiments
- Supplying establishment: establishment where animals are not propagated but kept temporarily with a view to their use in experiments
- User establishment: establishment where animals are used for experiments
Experimental: Dont use lab animals for ..
No license may be granted for experiments proposed for the purposes of manufacture of cosmetics, tobacco, other consumer goods, weapons and their components, and ammunition
Experimental: Lisence
- In the absence of an occasional license, only animals specifically bred for experimental purposes may be used in animal experiments.
- The animal health authority may give license for the use in animal experiments of farm and companion animals, and animals from the wild
Non-human primates and stray/ferals shall not be used
Experimental: Licensing
The animal welfare authority is responsible for:
o The licensing of animal experiments (projects),
o The registration of those authorised to carry out animal experiments (establishments).
Local animal experimentation committee must be created
Experimental: Local animal experimentation committee duties
o The preparation of the animal experimentation regulation (ethical codex)
o The control of observance of the animal experimentation regulation
o The professional-ethical supervision of the animal experimentation of the
institution
o Organisation of education and training of those authorised to carry out animal
experiments
- Entitled to immediately cancel the experiment with simultaneous notification of the animal welfare authority (in Hungary, it’s the county!)
Animal keeping: What is considered large scale?
- 30 horses or, 50 cattle or, 200 sheep, goats or, 100 swine;
- 2000 broiler poultry or, 500 full-grown poultry (gallinaceaus, waterfowl, turkey etc.) or, 50 ostriches or, 50 does and their progenies
Animal keeping: Large scale holdings
o Risk of transmitting diseases is higher o Treatment corridor o Cleansing and disinfection o Controlled entrances o Black-and-white system o Dissection room o Storage of carcasses and animal waste o Buildings approached from the outside: in the line of the fence
Animal keeping: Smale scale holdings
- Backyard farms
- Room for changing, washing and disinf.
- In epidemic danger: Prevent wild animals to enter
- Control feedstuff regularly
- Prohibited substances
- Drinking water quality
The animal health req. for pasturing
- Removal of parasites, stagnant waters, regulation of water ways, toxic plants, plant protection treatment (withdrawal period)
- Trespassing is prohibited
- Heavy metals: tests (if 500m distance)
- Treatment of liquid manure
- Burial of carcasses is prohibited
- Ruminants: healthy and free from warble (Hypoderma spp.) and liver-fluke (Fasciola
hepatica) - Other parasitic-infection: at least 14 days after effective treatment (test)
- Anthrax, clostridial diseases: vaccination (min. 2w-max. 6m earlier)
- Dogs: vaccinated against rabies and deworming
Animal fairs, animal markets and animal exhibitions
- Authorization of the veterinary authority
- Animal passport and individual identification
- Cattle, buffaloes, horses, donkeys and mules: individual examination
- Other animals: observation
- Dogs: compulsory vaccinations, identification
- Territory: dry soil, easily reached on public roads, water supply
- Fences and the entrance, water-proof pavement
- Different species of animals are separated
- Veterinary examination prior to their admission to the market-place
- Cleaning and disinfection of the market place
- Strict rules for using for pasturing after the event
- Fulfilment of conditions: responsible: person authorized to organize the market
Protection of farm animals: Council directives
- Council Directive 98/58/EC on the protection of animals kept for farming purposes
- Council Directive 2008/120/EC on the protection of pigs
- Council Directive 2008/119/EC on the protection of calves
- Council Directive 1999/74/EC on the protection of laying hens
- Council Directive 2007/43/EC on the protection of broilers
Protection of pigs: General
- Good training
- Unobstructed floor
- Clean and harmless
- Daily inspection
- Back-up for artificial ventilation
- Obs, noise level
- Min. 8 hr of min 40 lux a day
- Toys
Protection of pigs: Boars
Pens - allow the boar to turn around and to hear, smell and see other pigs and
to provide for clean resting area; min.: 6m2/boar or 10m2/boar
Protection of pigs: Sows and gilts
- Kept in groups 4 wks after the service and 1 week before the farrowing
- Tethering is prohibited
- Cleaning and th against parasites before placed in farrowing crates
- Nesting material
- Protection of piglets incrates
Protection of pigs: Piglets
- Safe place of suckling
- Avoid fighting
- Before d7: Tail docking and tooth clipping
- Nose ringing in outdoor systems
- Weaning not less than 4 wks
