2023-11-17 19:01:38
The Colombian Agricultural Institute (ICA), advances in animal welfare and carried out version 2.0 of the methodologies for evaluating animal welfare conditions in equidae, pigs, sheep, goats, bovines and buffaloes, backyard birds and animals. aquatic animals, in which he included chapter II, which talks regarding the evaluation of the well-being of backyard animals in Colombia.
The World Organization for Animal Health (WHO) has defined animal welfare as the physical and mental state of animals in relation to the conditions in which they live and die, and under this definition it is important to know that the physical and mental health of animals, includes aspects as diverse as physical or thermal comfort, absence of hunger, thirst or illness, the ability to express behaviors important to their species, among others.
In this context, the ICA has been promoting animal welfare in primary production, considering the evaluation of the welfare conditions of the animals of the different species of economic interest in the country to be of great importance.
In compliance with article 4 of Resolutions 136 and 253 of 2020 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, “By which the manual of animal welfare conditions specific to each of the species of production in the agricultural sector is adopted for the species equidae, swine, sheep, goats, bovines and buffaloes, poultry and aquatic animals”, which are already in force, and in which this article indicates that the ICA will design and implement a methodology for the evaluation of the conditions of animal welfare that contains measurable indicators and their assessment.
The construction of these animal welfare evaluation methodologies for the mentioned species responds to the basic principles of repeatability, ease and contains measurable indicators, which make it possible to obtain an objective diagnosis regarding welfare.
For this methodology, the validation stage was carried out in different departments such as Atlántico, Antioquia, Córdoba, Cundinamarca, Meta, Nariño, Quindío and Risaralda, where it was evident that it is possible to evaluate the well-being of backyard animals.
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