transport

Today an Eyes on Animals/Animal Welfare Foundation team inspected a Romanian livestock truck, shortly before the Hungarian/Romanian border. On board were young Charolais bulls from France. They are headed to a farm in Timisoara in Romania. The bulls are fit and the condition on the truck is acceptable. The bulls had also been unloaded for 24 hours to be rested and fed … [Read more...] about Inspection of Romanian livestock truck with French bulls on board

During random observations of the highway in Hungary, a team from Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation spotted 3 livestock lorries from the German transport company Hefter drive by. On board were pregnant heifers, loaded on two decks. We trailed the cattle to their destination, a large farm in Romania. The conditions on board were good- plenty of bedding and … [Read more...] about Trailing of German cattle (transported by Hefter company) to farm in Romania

Today the Eyes on Animals/Animal Welfare Foundation team conducted random inspections of livestock trucks passing on the highway in Hungary. Two Romanian-platted trucks stopped and were checked. On one of the trucks were piglets from Germany (850 on board) and were destined for Romania, the other truck had loaded piglets in Herten, Holland (884 piglets on board) and were … [Read more...] about Inspection of 3 pig trucks on the highway in Hungary

Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation are invited to give a talk at the UECBV meeting. We are asked to present the animal-welfare problems we continue to document on animal-transports from the EU to Turkey. The UECBV is the European Union for Livestock and Meat traders, based in Brussels. Members of this union from throughout the EU are present. We make an appeal … [Read more...] about EonA and AWF give a presentation on animal-suffering-during-transport to Turkey at the UECBV meeting

 Today Eyes on Animals met with the Dutch Producers of Poultry and Eggs (PPE) to discuss the problems we have been documenting of poultry transports. We have observed (see photos below) chickens with their heads crushed by the doors of the transport containers, wings trapped in the cage doors, broilers stuck on their backs and not able to turn themselves upright, … [Read more...] about Meeting with Dutch Producers of Poultry and Eggs (PPE)

 Eyes on Animals was invited by the Dutch Animal Police from the East region to give a presentation of our findings during our inspections of livestock-transports and slaughter in the Netherlands and abroad. Approximately 30 officers were present, all with a passion to put an end to violations to animal-welfare. We admire these officers, who, by treating cases of … [Read more...] about Presentation to the Dutch Animal Police

Agrarcoop is one of the largest cattle transport companies in Hungary and they also own a cattle fattening and export station. Unfortunately many of their cattle trucks we checked on at the Bulgarian/Turkey border have had problems- drivers not giving the animals sufficient water or feed, filthy and insufficient bedding, and two of their trucks had poorly designed dividers … [Read more...] about Meeting with Agrarcoop (Hungarian livestock transport company and fattening export cattle farm)

Today a team from Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation dropped by, unannounced, to the Hungarian control post “Vet Express”, located roughly 2km from the Romanian border. Many cattle from, for example, Lithuania, Czech Republic, Slovenia, and Germany are unloaded here during their long journeys to fattening farms and slaughterhouses in Turkey. We observed a … [Read more...] about Visit of Hungarian control post Vet Express and observation of Polish calf-truck

Today a team from Eyes on Animals and Animal Welfare Foundation dropped by, unannounced, to the control post “Global Horse, located in South-East Hungary, near the border with Romania. Many European livestock transports on their way to Turkey stop here to unload and rest the animals. The owner was welcoming to our visit and after a discussion he showed us the stables. … [Read more...] about Visit to Hungarian control post “Global Horse”(HU)

 This summer, Eyes on Animals’ teams decided to inspect animal transport on extremely hot days to see if the animals were suffering from the heat. Our highway inspection consisted of two shipments of chickens and a pig transport truck. In all cases, temperatures inside the transport trucks were too high. Inside the poultry transport the temperature ranged from 33.7 to … [Read more...] about An Animal Transport Inspection on a Hot Summer Day