Using Expert Elicitation for ranking hazards, promoters and animal-based measures for on-farm welfare assessment of indoor reared beef cattle: an Italian experience

Practical Application of the Five Domains Animal Welfare Framework for Supply Food Animal Chain Managers

“…They identify most important welfare problems. One example that has been determined by experts is lameness (difficulty walking) [ 20 ]. In the broiler poultry industry, the author is currently working with a buyer who is in the process of adopting three major key welfare indicators for broiler chickens.…”

“…The original Welfare Quality protocols were too time consuming for use in many commercial systems. Shorter versions that use the key indicator concept are being developed for indoor beef cattle and have already been implemented for dairy cattle [ 20 , 21 ].…”

Application of the ClassyFarm checklist as measurement tool to evaluate the welfare of cattle kept in tie-stalls in Aosta valley

“…For the first time, information about biosecurity, animal welfare, animal nutrition, antimicrobials usage and resistance, health and productions parameters, along to injuries found at the slaughterhouse are collected and elaborated in a unique tool to obtain the risk categorization. Focusing on animal welfare, expert knowledge elicitations (EKE) have been used to obtain checklists [7], [8] for most of the farmed animal species and for different breeding systems, in order to support official controls, collect data, promote the implementation of welfare and biosecurity levels, and provide consumers the information required. EKE provided items to be included in the different checklists based on a modified Delphi technique.…”

Enhancing farm-level economics and animal welfare through sensor-based animal health management

“…Using elicited expert knowledge is a suitable alternative when empirical evidence is limited (EFSA, 2014). We used ACA as an elicitation method instead of the Delphi method proposed by the European Food Safety Authorisation (2014) that is often used in animal welfare related research (Bertocchi et al, 2018;Bruijnis et al, 2012;Lorenzi et al, 2022;Nielsen et al, 2021;Rioja-Lang et al, 2020) because ACA is advantageous over the Delphi method. ACA is a paired-comparison elicitation method that allows for the degree of SOM welfare impairment on multiple welfare indicators to be assessed relative to each other instead of independently like in the Delphi method.…”

“…The Delphi method is a commonly used expert knowledge elicitation method in animal welfare related studies (Bertocchi et al, 2018;Lorenzi et al, 2022;Rioja-Lang et al, 2020). Bruijnis et al (2012) and Nielsen et al (2021) used derivations of the Delphi method in their health disorder welfare impact assessments for swine and dairy cows.…”