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SPCA supports housing systems that provide ducks and geese with a Good Life where they experience positive welfare and their physical, health and behavioural needs are met. For ducks and geese, this includes access to water to satisfy their water-related needs.

SPCA advocates that the need for electric prodding devices can be eliminated with appropriate handling and husbandry techniques and improved equipment and facilities.

SPCA advocates for farming systems that provide farmed animals with opportunities for positive mental experiences. This includes positive behavioural interactions and the ability to make choices, such as between indoor and outdoor access.

SPCA supports a move towards a farrowing system that protects the welfare of both the sow and the piglets.
SPCA opposes the use of farrowing crates, including temporary crating systems.

SPCA advocates that farming systems meet the species-specific and life-stage specific physical, health, and behavioural needs of farmed fish.

SPCA opposes the selection of animals for accelerated growth rates and other enhanced production traits where this may result in the inhibition of normal activity, cause metabolic or skeletal defects, chronic lameness and pain, increased mortality or other welfare problems.

SPCA values New Zealand’s unique ecosystems and the welfare of all animals that call these places home. We advocate that animal welfare is critical to ensuring conservation goals and that all conservation activities include an animal welfare assessment.

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

SPCA advocates that wild, aquatic crustaceans, including crayfish, crabs, and lobsters, caught for food must be treated humanely at all times.

SPCA advocates for the use of methods of population control that minimise the negative welfare harms caused to targeted and non-targeted animals.