Positions - Farmed Animals

​SPCA opposes the use of electroimmobilisation.

​SPCA advocates that farm dogs must only be kept where a person has the knowledge, ability, and means to provide them with a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and their physical, health and behavioural needs are met for their whole life.

​SPCA opposes the farming of cattle in feedlots.

SPCA advocates that winter grazing of cattle is only undertaken when the welfare of the animals is adequately protected.

​SPCA is concerned about the welfare harms and death of lambs as a result of early lambing that is scheduled to take place during winter or spring, when temperatures may cause thermal stress.

​SPCA supports housing systems that provide chickens with a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and their physical, health, and behavioural needs are met.

​SPCA opposes octopus farming due to welfare concerns and a lack of evidence that intensive farming systems can provide octopuses with a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and their physical, health and behavioural needs are met.

​SPCA acknowledges the importance of shearing for the welfare of sheep and other farmed species selected for fibre production.

​SPCA advocates for farming practices in which animals are kept in stable, long-term social groups throughout their lives whenever possible.

​SPCA advocates that animal welfare is considered as part of the sustainability in farming.