Good animal husbandry
Meat & Livestock Australia August 16, 2023
Good animal husbandry
Practising good animal husbandry ensures that the basic needs of animals are met and is essential for maintaining acceptable animal welfare standards.
Good animal husbandry must ensure:
- a level of nutrition adequate to sustain good health and welfare
- access to sufficient water of suitable quality and quantity to meet physiological needs
- social contact with other livestock of the same species
- sufficient space to stand, lie and stretch limbs, adequate opportunity to move freely and exhibit normal patterns of behaviour
- the facilities, equipment, husbandry and handling procedures used minimise the stress to livestock
- the risk of pain, injury or disease is minimised
- provision of appropriate treatment including euthanasia if necessary
- provision of reasonable precautions against extremes of weather or natural disasters