Category Archives: Welfare

Ministers discussed a recommended a mandatory standard for maximum time of feed for bobby calves at the 21^st Primary Industries Ministerial Council meeting in October 2011, but could not reach agreement.

In 2009 the Primary Industries Ministerial Council endorsed … Read more

Julie Fiedler, Executive Officer of Horse SA, has been awarded a full scholarship to participate in the Governor’s Leadership Foundation program in South Australia. For many years, Julie has been the mainstay of Horse SA, also making significant contributions to the … Read more

Following significant delays, the development processes for the Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for cattle and sheep have recommenced with a successful meeting of the writing groups last week.  Further consultations and revision will now take place, leading to … Read more

AHA has advised stakeholders that with recent Primary Industries Standing Committee support of all resolutions from the livestock welfare workshop held on 8-9 March, it is expected that the cattle and sheep welfare standards development projects will shortly be able … Read more

Animal Health Australia CEO, Dr Mike Bond, and Welfare Manager, Dr Kevin de Witte, participated in a three-day workshop held recently in Sydney, which brought together representatives of  Australian, state and territory governments, industry, animal welfare organisations and other groups … Read more

A training facilitator’s guide for Livestock Handling Training, developed by Tocal College for the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy (AAWS), has recently been piloted. To ‘paddock test’ the facilitator’s guide, two Livestock Handling courses were run at Tocal and Yanco in … Read more