Introduction and monitoring of an animal welfare survey (application of the KAT tool) on pilot laying hen farms ("Pilot KAT tool" project)
Project Leader: Prof. Dr. Knierim, Ute; Gieseke, Daniel
Project participants: Keppler, Christiane
Project description:
The aim of the project is to introduce a regular, systematic animal welfare survey (on-farm self-monitoring) on 50 KAT livestock farms and to accompany the surveys scientifically. For this purpose, various training materials for online and face-to-face training courses will be created based on the modified KAT form "Herd assessment", training courses will be held and an online test will be designed to compare the agreement between auditors/test farms and experts. Following the practical application of the animal welfare self-assessment, test farms and auditors will be surveyed with regard to the practical suitability of the animal welfare survey with the KAT tool and the training materials for online and face-to-face training will be modified if necessary.