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Draft Scientific Report on the practise of harvesting feathers from live geese for down production

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Table of Contents
Background as provided by the Commission
Terms of Reference as provided by the Commission
Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Figures
Assessment
1. Introduction
2. Scientific information
2.1. Distinction between plucking and harvesting
2.2. Physiology of moulting in geese
2.3. Welfare aspects of keeping geese for down and meat production
2.3.1. Needs of geese and welfare indicators
2.3.2. Assessment of pain during feather harvesting in geese
2.3.4. Assessment of stress during feather harvesting in geese
3. Conditions under which the practise of harvesting feathers from ...
3.1. Overview of goose husbandry and utilization
3.1.1. The effect of domestication and selection of geese on feathe...
3.2. Scenario of geese production in commercial practice
3.2.1. Environmental and personal conditions
3.2.2. Preparation of geese for harvesting
3.2.3. Organisation of harvesting
3.2.4. Housing and managing geese after the harvesting
3.3. Quality Assurance in feather harvesting
4. References
5. Appendices
5.1 Appendix 1. Annex 5 of Decree 32/1999 on the plucking of geese
5.2 Appendix 2. Feathers taken at different times of development un...
5.3 Appendix 3. Feathers production data