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Welfare
13 October 2023
This report from the Pig Health and Welfare Council (PHWC) recounts the activities of the council during 2021 and 2022.
12 January 2026
It is essential that youngstock housing provides for calves' needs, ensuring health and performance are optimised and regulations complied with. This page discusses how layout and construction can be used to the affect.
6 October 2023
Feeding is one of the main tasks of calf husbandry, and it requires a lot of money, time and effort. Designing your housing to make feeding easier will greatly benefit you and your team
30 October 2023
Well-designed cattle handling facilities make handling more efficient and help reduce stress and injuries.
23 June 2023
Researchers have applied some of the principles applied to mastitis cases and this time looked at including claw horn lesion data into statistical models to see what we can learn
23 June 2023
Sarah Smith of George Farm Vets tells us about the new Lantra-approved programme that aims to unite farm vets and hoof trimmers to improve mobility
23 June 2023
We talk to George Jones of Priory Vets in Cardigan, west Wales, about the steps that led to them offering a full foot trimming service for cows
9 May 2023
Jennifer Newman, AHDB's Animal Health & Welfare Scientist, has won the Animal Health, Agriculture and Food Supply category at the Antibiotic Guardian awards ceremony in London this week.
24 April 2023
Access to historical Real Welfare reports will cease on 19 May 2023
7 April 2025
Researchers from the universities of Liverpool and Bern (Switzerland) have used economic and population data from Defra, AHDB and AgroVision to answer this question.
13 March 2024
Advice on how best to help your sheep survive the cold weather.
2 January 2024
Whilst cost is a growing factor in driving consumers to look at their dairy consumption, reputational factors such as health and animal welfare are much more influential.