Welfare

• Transport of animals
• Car monitoring (GPS)
• Legislation
• Merits of our cars
• Transport cars
• Transportation principles
• Welfare

What is welfare?

The Boby-Fleisch company is one of the few companies providing animal transportation guided by the principles of welfare and well-being of transported animals. These principles include above all:

1. Quenching of hunger and thirst
2. Prevention of emergencies, injuries or illnesses
3. Prevention of fear and stress
4. Creating conditions for natural behavior of animals.

Hinged side lamellas of the cars can be opened or closed according to climatic conditions.

These generally formulated requirements are in practice represented by the following factors: feeding, watering, stalling, temperature, humidity, air circulation etc. Beside these conditions regulating the environment of animals, there is also an important set of principles laid down to prohibit unnecessary arousal or excessive stress, for example transportation of the animals in a way that causes pain, suffering or health impair. The cars of the Boby-Fleisch company allow easy maintenance of all of these principles.

Why is welfare important?

Keeping welfare principles is not a mere accommodation to the legislation requirements, but also contributes to the reduction of animal loss during transportation. It results in the improvement of meat quality.

Water sprinklers are necessary for animal transportation on hot days.

On the contrary, unsuitable conditions of transport (these include also contact with unknown animals) cause anxiety, stress and exhaustion. The result are undesirable deviations during the maturation of meat after slaughter. To put it simply, the influence of stress and exhaustion cause premature degradation of energetic supplies in muscles, which shows in reduced quality of meat.