NEW: AVEC Turkey Management Best Practices 2024

AVEC, representing the European Poultry Meat Sector acknowledge that good turkey farming practices and turkey house management are vital for turkey health and welfare. Turkeys are sentient
beings and should be treated with respect.

AVEC agrees with the One Health approach where the health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interconnected. Good farm-management practices are an essential aspect of jigsaw to ensure the health and well-being of all the interconnected elements.

Good turkey house management practices include:

• Appropriate training of staff.
• Care for animal health and welfare aspects.
• Bio-security measures, daily checks and maintenance of the technical facilities.
• Recording, monitoring and evaluation of the findings.
• The health and welfare of the turkeys are the results of a combination of interactions between good turkey housing practices, the equipment, the building, monitoring and stocking density.

Turkeys are kept in houses where the following elements are provided:

• Appropriate nutrition
• Freedom of movement
• Physical comfort and the need to engage in normal behaviour
• Progress or advance in feed, housing, equipment, medicines and genetic research should be considered to improve the conditions during rearing.

Download the full AVEC Turkey Management Best Practices 2024 here.