Real Welfare for vets

The pork sector council has acted on clear messages from levy payers to amplify our work on marketing, exports and reputation (including educating younger consumers). As a result, we no longer fund or operate the Pig Health Scheme and Real Welfare programmes.

Vets looking to complete Real Welfare assessments on their clients' units had to undertake online and on-farm training and assessments.

They also had to be registered with Red Tractor/Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and the Pig Veterinary Society (PVS).

The online training was available by logging onto the Real Welfare training website. 

You can also download and print paper data sheets (portrait/landscape) for recording Real Welfare assessment measures on farm. You can then upload the data to the database via the web portal.

Using the iPig portal

• The portal is the web-based access point to the Real Welfare (iPig) database
• The portal can be accessed via Pig Hub, where you should register and log in, or access can be gained by going to ipig.ahdb.org.uk/index/login
• Refer to the user guide for more information on using the iPig portal
• Internet access is required
• The portal can be used to submit data to the iPig database and to view benchmarked results

For technical help with the iPig portal, email real.welfare@ahdb.org.uk