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Animal Welfare at slaughter and killing for disease control for poultry - eLearning module

This eLearning course is aimed at allowing participants to improve their knowledge and skills in:

• Main references to the legislative requirements for poultry.
• Scientific basis for proper stunning and slaughter of poultry (basic animal behaviour and basic anatomy); Main stunning and slaughter techniques applied in slaughterhouses.
• Development of standard operating procedures and monitoring of their application.
• Animal welfare indicators: practical examples in slaughterhouses and problem raised by the risk of electro-immobilisation in poultry and the use of high frequency currents.
• Main legislative requirements on animal welfare during killing for disease control purposes.
• Main stunning and killing techniques for poultry.
• Development of action plans for depopulation.