Animal Welfare Basics
This is the animal’s emotional and physical ability to cope with the conditions in which it lives.
What is animal welfare?
This school focuses on the physical health, growth, and development of the animal.
What is health and functioning?
This freedom ensures access to food and water.
What is freedom from thirst, hunger, and malnutrition?
This is the personal space around an animal that determines movement.
What is a flight zone?
This law limits livestock hauling to 28 hours.
What is the 28-Hour Law?
Animal agriculture ensures this for a growing population.
What is a sustainable food supply?
This school focuses on the animal functioning naturally in its environment.
What is natural living?
This freedom ensures proper housing and environment.
What is freedom from discomfort?
Cattle move in the ______ direction of the handler.
What is the opposite direction?
After 28 hours, animals must rest for at least this long.
What is five hours?
Animal welfare is important because it leads to healthier products and this.
What is safe food / food safety?
This school focuses on the animal’s mental state and emotions.
What is affective state?
Calling a veterinarian when animals are sick supports this freedom.
What is freedom from pain, injury, or disease?
These two lines help determine cattle movement.
What are the shoulder line and backbone line?
During the five-hour rest, animals must receive these two things.
What are food and water?
Welfare issues often happen because of these two things.
What are misconceptions and undereducation?
This school would address fear, stress, and distress.
What is affective state?
Keeping sheep in a herd supports this freedom.
What is freedom to express normal behavior?
Name two safe handling practices.
What are talking quietly, staying calm, working in pairs, planning an escape route, wearing protective gear, following biosecurity, etc.?
Sheep and goats need about this many square feet per animal during hauling.
What is 3-4 square feet?
This describes allowing animals to participate in natural behaviors and have positive physical and emotional states.
What is quality of life?
These three schools overlap like this type of diagram.
What is a Venn diagram?
Moving quietly around poultry supports this freedom.
What is freedom from fear and distress?
If you stand on the left side of a cow and move toward its head, it will move this direction.
What is to the right?
Pigs need about this many square feet per market-weight pig.
What is 5-6 square feet?