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Questions to EURCAW (Q2E)
Scientific and technical assistance
The centre has been created in the context of the regulation 2017/625 about official controls (art. 95) to support the European Commission and member states in the applications of legislation regarding poultry and other small farm animals’ welfare.
The Centre offers scientific and technical assistance to Competent Authorities (CA), National Reference Centre (NRC), other Supporting Bodies (SB), from the EU Member States and the European Commission, regarding all aspects of welfare legislation implementation. The Centre is covering hatchery, farming, transportation and killing outside of risk assessment and risk management areas.
EURCAWs and EU Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare
Competent Authorities, inspectors and policy workers from EU Member States can ask EURCAW-Poultry-SFA scientific and technical questions they may have regarding poultry and small farmed animals’ welfare. The other EURCAWs provide a similar service for their species: Pigs, Aqua, and Ruminants and Equines.
These ‘Questions to EURCAW’ (Q2Es) are regularly submitted and answers are published online. Unfortunately, sometimes the research literature is unclear or even lacking on some important questions. In those cases, “further research is necessary”.
The four EURCAWs have been invited by the EU Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare (link) to submit urgent research needs. The Partnership is currently revising its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), and will consider new important topics.
Fingers crossed that these questions from MS officials will be answered in the future, through sound science!
Workshop EURCAW novel ‘welfare inspection support tool’
On December 15th, 2025, the four EURCAWs organized an online workshop entitled EURCAW novel ‘welfare inspection support tool’ for the EU Animal Welfare Member State official inspectors/officials. A total of 13 participants attended the workshop. Excluding EURCAW members, 8 participants from 8 EU Member States were present.
The workshop used a co-design process to ensure that the tool addressed the established needs of official inspectors, as an end-user. Three key elements were explored through the co-design process:
- The primary purposes for using the inspection tool.
- The types of content official inspectors expect to access through the tool.
- The technical and technological features that should be incorporated into the tool.
Selection of the most appropriate depopulation method for the welfare of poultry
The Selection Guide is online!
This selection guide has been developed for competent authorities, but it is available to any interested party. It is structured as a hierarchy of decision trees designed to determine whether a given depopulation method can be used while ensuring poultry welfare.
Have a look here.
For more information visit our sub-page here.
3 New Q2Es on Broiler Cannibalism
Three new 'Question to EURCAWs' (Q2Es) hve been published on Broiler Cannibalism:
- Q2E-2025-006: Broiler Cannibalism Causative Factors availalbe here: https://zenodo.org/records/17484921;
- Q2E-2025-006: Broiler Cannibalism Prevention availalbe here: https://zenodo.org/records/17485033.;
- Q2E-2025-007: Broiler Cannibalism Emergency Measures availalbe here: https://zenodo.org/records/17856303.
To see more, take a look at and at our Question to EURCAW's subpage!
Knowledge pill: How long can they stand?
Determining the walking ability in broilers using the latency-to-lie test
How long can broilers stand?
We have created our first Knowledge Pill about determining the walking ability in broilers using the latency-to-lie test.
Walking ability is a relevant animal-based indicator of #welfare in broilers, and the latency-to-lie test is an alternative method to the traditional gait scoring assessment.
Do you want to know more? See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRzrWv29CcQ