Welfare Science

Animal Welfare Indicators Dashboard Development

Welfare indicators dashboards aggregate data from multiple sources to provide real-time insights into welfare outcomes across production systems.

Key Facts

Welfare indicators include mortality rates, lameness scoring, and behaviour sampling
Digital dashboards allow farm managers to track welfare trends across time
Benchmarking against industry peers motivates welfare improvement
Automated sensors can provide continuous welfare-related data streams
Research is validating which indicators best predict overall welfare state

Welfare Considerations

Welfare dashboards make invisible problems visible, enabling timely intervention. Widespread adoption across the livestock industry could prevent millions of instances of animal suffering each year.

What You Can Do

Support development and adoption of farm welfare monitoring technology
Advocate for welfare dashboard use as part of farm assurance programmes
Engage with precision livestock farming innovation as a welfare improvement tool
Support funding for welfare indicator validation research
Encourage retailers to use supplier welfare dashboard data in procurement