Canadian horse welfare code up for comment
Public comment is beingness invited on a draft Code of Practice for the Care together with Handling of Equines inwards Canada.
Submissions on the code, proposed past times the National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) are opened upward until Feb 14, 2013. All stakeholders are encouraged to supply input to ensure that the Code reflects a mutual agreement of equine tending expectations together with recommended practices inwards Canada.
A Scientists’ Committee study summarizing query on priority welfare topics for equines tin hold out constitute online with the draft Code. This peer-reviewed study aided the discussions of the Code Development Committee every bit they prepared the draft Code of Practice.
“I’m proud of the collaborative endeavour commission members cause got shown since nosotros began our move inwards early on 2011,” said Jack de Wit, Director with the Equine Canada Board of Directors together with Chair of the Code Development Committee.
“The adjacent pace is opening the draft Code to input from the public. With the public’s aid nosotros volition cause got a Code that is goodness for owners together with the animals inwards their care.”
Dr Bettina Bobsien, Canadian Federation of Humane Societies illustration on the Code Development Committee, said the code provided an chance to advance the welfare of equines across a various industry. “It is of import that this Code reverberate the best practices available for the welfare of horses, donkeys together with mules,” she said.
Anyone tin supply comments together with suggestions on the Code; all submissions must hold out made through the online system.
The equine Code revision is led past times an 18-person Code Development Committee, which includes participants from across Canada representing the variety of the industry. Members include Equus caballus owners, caregivers, animate beingness welfare together with enforcement representatives, researchers, veterinarians together with authorities representatives. The Scientists’ Committee includes researchers with expertise inwards equine behaviour, wellness together with welfare. The concluding equine Code of Practice volition hold out released inwards June 2013.
The equine Code is 1 of 8 Codes of Practice currently nether revision every bit work of a multi-year NFACC project. Codes of Practice serve every bit our national agreement of animate beingness tending requirements together with recommended practices. It is of import Codes hold out scientifically informed, practical together with reverberate societal expectations for responsible farm animate beingness care. The Codes embrace housing, feed together with water, handling, euthanasia, carry together with other of import administration practices.
The code tin hold out viewed at nfacc.ca/codes-of-practice/equine.
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