transport

Eyes on Animals inspectors met with Veetrans. Veetrans is a quality assurance program set up for livestock transport companies to join that agree to abide by stricter animal welfare rules during transport. Eyes on Animals commends the people behind Veetrans for taking this initiative and is an example of industry itself trying to make improvements. Many companies are still … [Read more...] about Meeting with Veetrans

One of the surviving chicks, roughly a dozen died from the accident. While parked at a highway rest stop, Eyes on Animals investigators spot a truck with new-born "broiler" chicks loaded in cages. There are a dozen dead chicks and the cages are not stacked up properly but appear to have fallen. The driver explains to us that he forgot to attach a belt around … [Read more...] about Inspection of a livestock truck with new-born chicks

Eyes on Animals inspector checking that the piglets were indeed able to get up.   Eyes on Animals trailed a Polish livestock truck transporting Dutch piglets from The Netherlands towards Poland. On board, certain compartments were extremely crowded, while one was left half-empty. The piglets in this low-density compartment were trembling and acting lethargic. We … [Read more...] about Inspection of a Polish truck transporting Dutch piglets

Acceptable loading density and thick bedding Eyes on Animals trailed a livestock truck from the Dutch company Vaex from The Netherlands heading to Croatia. Recently Vaex had its licence to transport live animals removed by the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture due to repeated violations to the EU animal protection during transport legislation, so we asked the police in … [Read more...] about Inspection of a pig livestock truck from the Dutch company Vaex