After more than a year of 'tough dialogue' with the poultry industry, EonA finally succeeded: Rondeel – an egg producing company – has decided that they are going to develop a new way of catching based on the EonA Dutch method we have been teaching (keeping birds upright instead of grabbing them by their legs and stuffing them into crates while upside down). Their decision … [Read more...] about Rondeel is moving towards a more humane catching method!
animal welfare trainings
Practical-training of Official Road Inspectors (ITD) in Opole region, Poland
Today we joined ITD inspectors on the road to implement yesterday’s theory in practice. Two livestock trucks are randomly pulled off the road to be checked. One is a national pig transport and the other a national cattle transport. We are pleased to see that there was only one minor welfare concern in the pig transport (one divider was not solid to the ground), while the … [Read more...] about Practical-training of Official Road Inspectors (ITD) in Opole region, Poland
Training of Official Road Inspectors and veterinarians in Opole, Poland
Today Eyes on Animals and AWF|TSB gave a training course on Regulation (EC) 1/2005 to a group of 40 Official Road Inspectors (ITD) and government veterinarians from the Opole region in Poland. We witness some lively discussions and sense some frustration in cases where law is not perfect enough to really protect animals. We appreciate such discussions a lot, even if there … [Read more...] about Training of Official Road Inspectors and veterinarians in Opole, Poland
Practical training of Road Inspection Officers in Kozieglowy
TSB|AWF and Eyes on Animal representatives join Road Inspection Officers (ITD) again to inspect animal transports going along a busy road going north-east. Two cattle transports are stopped. We are pleased to see that one transport had everything right: both the animals and documents. We only had some concerns about too much space for two bulls in a big compartment. The … [Read more...] about Practical training of Road Inspection Officers in Kozieglowy
Practical training of Road Inspection Officers in Zernica, Poland
TSB|AWF and Eyes on Animal representatives join Road Inspection Officers (ITD) to inspect animal transport during the night. 5 livestock trucks were stopped, all got warnings or fines up to PLN 1000 (Eur 250). The findings included very poor conditions with rusty floors and missing partitions in pig trucks, and bad curtains and broken crates in poultry transport, resulting … [Read more...] about Practical training of Road Inspection Officers in Zernica, Poland
Animal welfare course and EonA Dutch catching of Rondeel chickens with catchers from Den Ouden Oirschot
On Monday evening - for the first time in The Netherlands – the company “Rondeel” chose to catch and load an entire flock of their 3500 birds with us using the much more humane “EonA Dutch method”. Normally, chickens are grabbed by their legs (3-5 per hand) and then stuffed headfirst into transport crates. With the EonA Dutch method, the chickens are picked up a maximum of … [Read more...] about Animal welfare course and EonA Dutch catching of Rondeel chickens with catchers from Den Ouden Oirschot
Training of Road Police and Veterinarians, Gdansk (Poland) – Theory part
Today we gave the theoretical part of a training course on the Directive EC 1/2005 on animal-protection during transport to a large and diverse group of ITD road inspectors, highway police and official veterinarians from the regions around Gdansk. The group is very interested and asks many questions. We are happy to see active participation of representatives of different … [Read more...] about Training of Road Police and Veterinarians, Gdansk (Poland) – Theory part
Training of Road Police in Olsztyn, Poland – practical part
Today we joined the ITD inspectors to perform the practical part of our training-courses on the EU directive about the protection of animals during transport. The ITD team split up, each car going in different directions in search of livestock trucks to escort them to the control point we have set up. This way, even though in this area there is not that much circulation of … [Read more...] about Training of Road Police in Olsztyn, Poland – practical part
Training of road police (ITD) in Olsztyn, Poland – Theory
Olsztyn has a group of 30 ITD (Road Inspection) inspectors and two policemen attending our training course on the EC 1/2005 directive covering the protection of animals during transport. Today we cover the theory and the importance of unannounced checks on the road of livestock trucks passing by their region. The attendants are enthusiastic for tomorrow's practical … [Read more...] about Training of road police (ITD) in Olsztyn, Poland – Theory
Animal Welfare Course for 24 catchers of Van den Broek
Last Thursday (October 27th 2016) Eyes on Animals - with support of the Dierenbescherming - presented an animal welfare course to 24 bird catchers of Van den Broek. Van den Broek is one of the largest poultry companies in the Netherlands and we encounter them regularly during our inspections. Van den Broek responded positively to our request to attend a course and as many … [Read more...] about Animal Welfare Course for 24 catchers of Van den Broek
