Practices are the specific procedures applied to animals within industry systems – physical, chemical, behavioural, or procedural interventions used across breeding, confinement, feeding, transport, and slaughter.
The records below document what each practice is, how it’s performed, which industries and species it applies to, and its documented effects.
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48 practices
Animal Experimentation
Research Procedures • Processing
OpenArtificial Insemination
Breeding & Reproduction • Genetic Selection
OpenBeak Trimming
Mutilation & Body Alteration • Production
OpenBlood Harvesting
Extraction & Harvesting • Production
OpenCaging
Confinement & Housing • Production
OpenCaptive Display
Performance & Display • Production
OpenCastration
Mutilation & Body Alteration • Birth & Early Life
OpenConditioning & Training
Performance & Display • Production
OpenDeclawing
Mutilation & Body Alteration • Birth & Early Life
OpenDehorning and Disbudding
Mutilation & Body Alteration • Birth & Early Life
OpenDepopulation
Killing & Disposal • Production
OpenEgg Collection
Extraction & Harvesting • Production
OpenEmbryo Transfer
Breeding & Reproduction • Genetic Selection
OpenEnvironmental Deprivation
Handling & Behavioural Control • Production
OpenEyestalk Ablation
Mutilation & Body Alteration • Reproduction
OpenFeather Harvesting
Extraction & Harvesting • Production
OpenFeedlot Housing
Confinement & Housing • Production
OpenFleece Harvesting
Extraction & Harvesting • Production
OpenForced Feeding
Feeding & Growth Manipulation • Production
OpenForced Mating
Breeding & Reproduction • Reproduction
OpenGrowth Acceleration
Feeding & Growth Manipulation • Production
OpenHatchery Incubation
Early Life & Separation • Birth & Early Life
OpenHoney Harvesting
Extraction & Harvesting • Production
OpenIdentification Marking
Mutilation & Body Alteration • Production
OpenIntensive Confinement
Confinement & Housing • Production
OpenLighting Control
Feeding & Growth Manipulation • Production
OpenLive Export
Transport & Trade • Transport
OpenLive Transport
Transport & Trade • Transport
OpenMale Offspring Killing
Killing & Disposal • End of Life
OpenMilk Extraction
Extraction & Harvesting • Production
OpenMulesing
Mutilation & Body Alteration • Birth & Early Life
OpenOn-Farm Slaughter
Killing & Disposal • Transport
OpenPhysical Restraint
Handling & Behavioural Control • Production
OpenPremature Weaning and Separation
Early Life & Separation • Birth & Early Life
OpenReproductive Cycle Manipulation
Breeding & Reproduction • Genetic Selection
OpenRestricted Feeding
Feeding & Growth Manipulation • Production
OpenSelective Breeding
Breeding & Reproduction • Genetic Selection
OpenSelective Culling
Killing & Disposal • Production
OpenSilk Extraction
Extraction & Harvesting • End of Life
OpenSlaughter
Killing & Disposal • End of Life
OpenSocial Isolation
Handling & Behavioural Control • Production
OpenTail Docking
Mutilation & Body Alteration • Birth & Early Life
OpenTeeth Clipping
Mutilation & Body Alteration • Birth & Early Life
OpenTethering and Stalling
Confinement & Housing • Production
OpenToe Trimming
Mutilation & Body Alteration • Production
OpenVaccine and Pharmaceutical Production
Research Procedures • Production
OpenVeal Production
Confinement & Housing • End of Life
OpenVivisection
Research Procedures • End of Life
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