Schale Patrick, Schmitt Armin O, Dänicke Sven, Kluess Jeannette, Grümpel-Schlüter Angelika, Arkenau Engel F
Institute of Agricultural Technology, Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Bundesallee 47, 38116 Braunschweig, Germany.
Department of Animal Sciences, Breeding Informatics, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Margarethe von Wrangell-Weg 7, 37075 Göttingen, Germany.
Animals (Basel). 2022 Nov 29;12(23):3337. doi: 10.3390/ani12233337.
In the course of social criticism of fattening pig farming, an animal welfare programme called "Initiative Animal Welfare" (ITW) was founded to increase animal welfare in pig farming in Germany. Furthermore, there is a legal obligation to record animal welfare parameters as a self-monitoring measure. The "German Association for Technology and Structures in Agriculture" published a guideline on the applicable animal welfare criteria. This guide formed the basis of this study's data collection. The aim was to apply the animal welfare parameters on farms by comparing the results between farms participating in ITW with those not participating. A cumulative score was calculated by evaluating the collected data. In addition, the relative risk was calculated in order to estimate the risk of finding a negative expression of a parameter. Our data show that ITW farms did not perform significantly better than the farms without ITW in terms of both the cumulative score and the relative risk. Overall, it must be considered that in both farm variants the occurrence of negative evaluations was very rare and the visited farms thus certainly can be considered to be well-managed farms. Climate parameters were recorded in each compartment and showed no significant differences in most cases.
在对育肥猪养殖的社会批评过程中，德国成立了一个名为“动物福利倡议”（ITW）的动物福利项目，以提高养猪业的动物福利。此外，作为一项自我监测措施，记录动物福利参数存在法律义务。“德国农业技术与结构协会”发布了一份关于适用动物福利标准的指南。本指南构成了本研究数据收集的基础。目的是通过比较参与ITW的农场与未参与农场的结果，将动物福利参数应用于农场。通过评估收集到的数据计算累积得分。此外，计算相对风险以估计发现参数负面表达的风险。我们的数据表明，在累积得分和相对风险方面，ITW农场的表现并不明显优于未参与ITW的农场。总体而言，必须考虑到，在两种农场类型中，负面评价的出现都非常罕见，因此所走访的农场肯定可被视为管理良好的农场。在每个隔间记录了气候参数，在大多数情况下没有显著差异。
