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Guidelines
of the IGN
Guidelines of the IGN (PDF-Document)
25 years of IGN - its origins,
achievments and future prospects (PDF-Document)
Objectives and
foundation of IGN
The International Society of Livestock Husbandry (IGN)
promotes the proper housing, breeding, nutrition and treatment of farm animals
on a scientific basis. Wide-ranging scientific knowledge is used to find
sustainable long-term solutions that facilitate proper animal husbandry.
Livestock farmers and animal welfare regulations must take the species-specific
needs of farm animals into account. IGN vigorously promotes this cause.
IGN was founded in 1978 by Swiss and German scientists at the instigation and
with the support of Dr. h.c. Felix Wankel.
Animal husbandry and animal
welfare
On a national and international level IGN provides an impetus for the
formulation of legislation and regulations facilitating proper animal husbandry
and contemporary, scientifically based animal welfare. Where such decrees
already exist, it works to enforce them.
Animal husbandry,
ethology and veterinary medicine
Within the research framework appropriate scientific approaches can
be used to draw conclusions on diminished animal well-being using behavioural
indicators, parameters of veterinary medicine and clinical physiology. IGN
fosters efforts which place a high value on ethological, physiological and
clinical arguments in the formulation and enforcement of animal welfare
legislation. It supports both basic and applied research.
Animal husbandry and
ecology
Animal husbandry in the agricultural sphere should also take
farm animal ecology into consideration. Proper animal husbandry, feeding and
care must not be developed independently of environmentally relevant
requirements. The development of proper animal housing systems should be
accompanied by an ecological reorientation of agriculture. IGN supports the
efforts of politicians, associations and private individuals to bring this
about.
Animal nutrition and
animal breeding
The well-being, health, behaviour and life of animals can be
adversely affected by feedstuffs inappropriate to the requirements of a
particular species and by improvements to the efficiency of livestock production
through breeding, bio-engineering, genetic engineering and associated measures
which ignore the needs of the animals. IGN wants feeding and breeding to take
account of animals' species-specific needs.
Members and working
method of IGN
IGN members are specialists from various fields involved in animal
husbandry, mainly scientists and experts in ethology, agrarian sciences,
veterinary science, ethics, philosophy, animal welfare, jurisprudence and
government.
IGN disseminates information on issues relating to proper animal husbandry
using specialist conferences, workshops, publications, advisory opinions, its
website and its quarterly newsletter, "Nutztierhaltung". The
newsletter mainly features abstracts of scientific publications in various
fields of animal husbandry. IGN is open to collaboration with organisations and
institutions whose goals include proper and ecological animal husbandry.
Guidelines of the IGN (PDF-Document)
25 years of IGN - its origins,
achievments and future prospects (PDF-Document)
Proceedings of the workshop on
the topic of "Suffering" (PDF-Document)
Proceedings of the workshop on
"Ethological and neurophysiological criteria for suffering with
special reference to the domestic pig" (PDF-Document)
Report on welfare of laying hens
(edited by the IGN and the University of Kassel)
Abstract
(PDF-Document)
Proceedings of the
workshop on "Group housing of dry sows" (PDF-Document)
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