Animal welfare resources

This guide is for scientists, technicians and teachers who use animals in their work and are responsible for their welfare. It summarises legal requirements and provides a framework of understanding for going beyond the legal minima. The guidelines are designed to help keep researchers and teachers in touch with, and responsive to, society’s rapidly evolving attitudes towards the relationships between people and animals.

Keywords: animal welfare; dairy calf; bobby calf
This research identifies reasons for mortality and morbidity in dairy calves for slaughter (bobby calves), and potential new welfare indicators. Results are based on observations of calves, information from questionnaires given to farmers, transport operators and slaughter plant personnel. The research links calf mortality to on-farm management practices, transport, time in calving season, and slaughter schedule. The results will be used for initiatives to further improve calf welfare.

All transported animals should have a comfortable and safe journey and arrive at their destination in a fit and healthy state. This brochure outlines the actions farmers, transporters, saleyard operators and meat processors need to take to prepare dairy cows for both the journey and the intended destination, and to handle them in a manner that minimises stress and injury.

Animal Welfare good practice guide for the use of animals in research, testing and teaching.

This provides an overview for lay members to give them an understanding of the use of animals in research, testing and testing, the legislation and their role on an animal ethics committee.

This toolkit is for farmer representatives who are asked to become part of an animal welfare response by an industry organisation, Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), or by a farmer requesting support.

The Vet Pak provides detailed information about a veterinarian’s role in an investigation, good practice note-taking and evidence collection, what to expect if an investigation is taken to court etc, as well as some technical information on body condition scoring, humane euthanasia techniques, and post mortem procedures.