UK supermarket launches app to track animal welfare on farm UK food retailer, Waitrose, is rolling out a new mobile application that will help it assess and begin to understand the welfare of its farm animals.
The supermarket chain hopes the app will help it lead further improvements to animal welfare standards across the UK.
Developed by animal behavioral scientists at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and licensed by Waitrose for trial and development for two years, the
application is designed to help field teams better understand, recognize and record emotionally expressive behavior that - in part - contributes to an animal’s quality of life.
App-y animals: Farmers use smartphones to keep track of livestock emotions 08/02/2021, 12:04 am
App allows farmers to describe positive and negative emotions seen in their animals, in a bid to ensure they are living an enriching life (Waitrose/PA)
Farmers are turning to technology to keep track of their livestock’s emotional state in a bid to improve animal welfare standards.
An app is being trialed which allows people to log emotionally expressive behaviour exhibited by dairy cows, veal calves, pigs, laying hens, broiler chickens and ducks.
The aim is to ensure animals enjoy a good and enriching life.
Farmers and field staff are presented with a list of about 20 key descriptive terms tailored to each species, which are a mix of positive and negative emotions.
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