transport

Eyes on Animals was invited by the EU Commission to present our findings on chicken-welfare problems during transport, and possible solutions, at their Congress held in Dublin today. The focus of the meeting was to show enforcement successes and failures of the EC legislation protecting animals during transport. We showed photos and short videos illustrating how the design … [Read more...] about Eyes on Animals speaks about chicken welfare at EU Congress in Dublin

In the evening a team from Animal Welfare Foundation and Eyes on Animals spotted several chicken trucks at a farm in Brabant. They were from a company that is known to bring spent hens and old-breeding birds for slaughter to Poland. As these birds are usually in a fragile condition, and the loading and transport of poultry is difficult to do without causing … [Read more...] about 14-15.05.2013 Trailing Van der Berg chicken truck from Holland to Polish slaughterhouse

Since publishing our report "Cracks in the Crate", summarizing the routine violations taking place during the transport of poultry, a few people from the chicken industry in The Netherlands and Belgium expressed interest in improving the situation. Today we invited them to meet with us and a plastic company that produces poultry crates to brainstorm about how we could … [Read more...] about Brainstorming with chicken industry: welfare-friendlier transport crates

Tonight the EonA/AWF inspectors followed a long distance cattle truck from Bulgaria with the final destination Croatia. The truck stopped at the BIP (border inspection post) of Kalotina. On the truck there where 80 young bulls of different weight categories. Some compartments of the truck were clearly overcrowded. There was also not enough bedding, this was especially … [Read more...] about Trailing Bulgarian cattle truck to Serbian border

Inspectors from AWF and EonA flew to Bulgaria yesterday. Considering that we will soon be giving a two-day training to the Bulgarian police and official veterinarians, we needed to check out the most current conditions for animals in transit there. Our team arrived early at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey this morning, to check on 5 trucks with Austrian pregnant … [Read more...] about Inspection of cattle trucks at Bulgarian/Turkey border

Our team visited Svilengard control post, where many EU exporters and transporters claimed to have rested their EU animals in the past before crossing over into Turkey. In truth, this was not the case. During our earlier inspections at this border, EonA and AWF continued to see animals and trucks in filthy condition, it was clear the animals had regularly been … [Read more...] about Inspection of Svilengrad control post, Bulgaria

Tonight a team was on the road in the Netherlands to conduct random inspections of chicken trucks. We spotted three empty poultry trucks from the Belgian company Wilki, parked at a Dutch laying hen farm near Lunteren. We know Wilki very well, having complained about the condition of their crates last year, many of which were broken and risking caving in under the weight … [Read more...] about Inspection of loading and transport of laying hens, NL

Today Eyes on Animals and a livestock chauffeur with 33 years experience met with the authorities from the Dutch Ministry of Economics and the nVWA (Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority) to again stress the importance of livestock trucks being built to allow access to the animals during transport. After releasing our report in … [Read more...] about Meeting with Dutch Ministry: Importance of access during transport

Today Eyes on Animals met with 3 people from the Dutch poultry industry. One representing NoviPluim (Broiler Breeders), one representing the Dutch Association of Poultry Producers (Bond van Pluimvee) and one was a transporter and trader of broiler breeders and slaughter hens. The aim of the meeting was to make sure the Dutch poultry industry knew of the problems … [Read more...] about Meeting with Dutch chicken industry to improve welfare during transport

  Today Eyes on Animals was invited to visit Companjen, a bodyshop that renovates and trades livestock trucks. The reason for our visit is because we are concerned that more and more livestock trucks in use by Dutch companies do not provide access to all the animals during transport. Either there are no doors on the sides, or the doors are far too … [Read more...] about Visit to Companjen livestock truck bodyshop