The WelFarmers venture is a collaborative initiative aimed toward enhancing the welfare of pigs inside the European Union. Funded by the Horizon Europe Program, the venture has established eight regional networks in Denmark, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Romania, France and Eire. Every community brings collectively pig farmers, advisors, veterinarians and researchers to sort out the challenges posed by the upcoming adjustments within the EU pig welfare laws.
Inside the framework of the venture, every regional community has recognized good practices for 4 key matters:
- Ban of cages
- Pigs with undocked tails
- Avoiding ache in castration
- Area allowance and flooring
The entire record of collected good practices is already out there on the WelFarmers web site.
From this in depth assortment, 5 good practices per subject have been chosen. This choice can be revealed on the venture’s web site, and within the coming days, thematic reviews and abstracts of every greatest apply will likely be made out there. These abstracts embrace a abstract of every chosen good apply, the advantages noticed, sensible implementation particulars, ranges of adoption throughout completely different areas, and boundaries and enablers for implementation.
Within the comings weeks, the three successful good practices for every subject will likely be introduced and shared on the web site.
Stakeholders and professionals throughout the swine sector in Europe are invited to observe the WelFarmers venture through its web site and social media channels, the place common updates, publications and success tales are shared.
July, 2025 – WelFarmers
