List of welfare indicators to assess turkeys' welfare on-farm

This deliverable combines a list of welfare indicators and methods of assessment relative to on-farm turkeys’ welfare. As no specific European legislation is yet available, the legal requirements of directive 98/58/EC that apply to turkeys are identified and allocated to four welfare principles: Good Feeding, Good Housing, Good Health, and Appropriate Behaviour. Welfare indicators and their methods of assessment are developed following a review of the existing scientific literature and the checklist and guidelines used by official inspectors in Member States.

Modifications of the transect method definition p 4 were made. The modified part corresponds to: "In addition, Marchewka et al. (2015) compared the performance... "to the end of the paragraph.  

- p12 the second last sentence from the page was removed. "The mean between both values gives the final score of litter quality of this point"