October 2014

Creating animal welfare assessment method for backyard goat production in the Philippines using stockmanship competence as proxy indicator

Measuring animal welfare is a newly emerging area of research and it requires multi-disciplinary approach to achieve it. Due to the diversity of what constitute the definition of animal welfare, different methods and models have been suggested, and were mostly implemented in semi-intensive and commercial farms in developed countries. There are hardly any studies on animal welfare assessment conducted in backyard...

Author(s): M. J. Alcedo, K. Ito and K. Maeda