Real Welfare for vets
If you're a vet looking to complete Real Welfare assessments on your clients' units, you will need to undertake online and on-farm training and assessments.
Back to Real Welfare page
You must also be registered with Red Tractor/Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) and the Pig Veterinary Society (PVS).
The online training is available by logging onto the Real Welfare training website. For login details, email real.welfare@ahdb.org.uk.
Visit the Real Welfare training site
Real Welfare resources for vets
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.
Real Welfare data sheet print-out (portrait)
Real Welfare data sheet print-out (landscape)
Submitting Real Welfare results
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 www.i-pig.org
- 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
Download the iPig user guide for vets