Author:
Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines

Date of Publication:
January 2017

Publication:
Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines

Excerpt:
From an animal welfare perspective, this process will cover all welfare aspects for sheep. The draft standards and guidelines for sheep currently include chapters on:

• Responsibilities
• Feed and water
• Risk management of extreme weather, natural disasters, disease, injury and predation
• Facilities and equipment
• Handling and husbandry
• Tail docking and castration
• Mulesing
• Breeding management
• Intensive sheep production systems
• Humane killing

Read the rest of the article: http://www.animalwelfarestandards.net.au/sheep/background/