A Prototype Tool to Enable Farmers to Measure and Improve the Welfare Performance of the Farm Animal Enterprise: The Unified Field Index
Schemes for the assessment of farm animal welfare and assurance of welfare standards have proliferated in recent years. An acknowledged short-coming has been the lack of impact of these schemes on the welfare standards achieved on farm due in part to sociological factors concerning their implementat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2014-07-01
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| Series: | Animals |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/4/3/446 |