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| Vaarst, Mette; Winckler, Christoph; Roderick, Stephen; Smolders, Gidi; Ivemeyer, Silvia; Brinkmann, Jan; Mejdell, Cecilie; Whistance, Lindsay; Nicholas, Pip; Walkenhorst, Michael; Leeb, Christine; March, Solveig; Henriksen, Britt I. F.; Stöger, Elisabeth; Gratzer, Elisabeth; Hansen, Berit; Huber, Johann. |
| Continuous development is needed within the farm to reach the goal of good animal health and welfare in organic livestock farming. The very different conditions between countries call for models that are relevant for different farming types and can be integrated into local practice and be relevant for each type of farming context. This article reviews frameworks, principles and practices for animal health and welfare planning which are relevant for organic livestock farming. This review is based on preliminary analyses carried out within a European project (acronym ANIPLAN) with participants from seven countries. The process begins with gathering knowledge about the current status within a given herd as background for making decisions and planning future... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Dairy cattle Health and welfare Education; Extension and communication. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/19397/1/Vaarst2011_aniplan_AHWP.pdf |
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| Vaarst, Mette; Winckler, Christoph; Leeb, Christine; Gratzer, Elisabeth; Nicholas, Phillipa; Roderick, Stephen; Smolders, Gidi; Walkenhorst, Michael; Brinkmann, Jan; March, Solveig; Ströger, Elisabeth; Lund, Vonne; Henriksen, Britt I. F.; Hansen, Berit; Neale, Madeleine; Huber, Johann; Whistance, Lindsay; Hofer, T.; Huber, H.; Kilchsperger, Rahel; Ivemeyer, Silvia. |
| Workshop ANIPLAN, May 11th-14th, 2009, Reichenau, Payerbach Reichenau, Austria. Programme and presentations. |
| Tipo: Other |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general; Health and welfare. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18397/1/18397.pdf |
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| Leeb, Christine; Gratzer, Elisabeth; Huber, Johann; Stöger, Elisabeth; Winckler, Christoph; Brinkmann, Jan; March, Solveig; Walkenhorst, Michael; Ivemeyer, Silvia; Smolders, Gidi; Mejdell, Cecilie; Henriksen, Britt I. F.; Hansen, Berit; Whistance, Lindsay; Vaarst, Mette. |
| This report serves as a deliverable from the ANIPLAN project, with the original title ‘Evaluation report on state of the art regarding animal health and welfare planning in the participating countries’ (Deliverable 5.1). We chose to focus on the farmers’ perspective in each country, and ask the farmers who had participated in our project how they perceived the process of animal health and welfare planning. We did that using a questionnaire which each participant used in an interview with the farmer, asking some specific questions with the aim to evaluate how the farmers had experienced the ANIPLAN approach. We found that this focus was important as a supplement to other outcomes from the project, such as reduction of medicines (Ivemeyer et al., 2011) and... |
| Tipo: Report chapter |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general; Health and welfare. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18407/1/18407.pdf |
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| Whistance, Lindsay; Bennedsgaard, Torben Werner; Vaarst, Mette. |
| In organic farming, the use of antibiotics is restricted to treatment of disease. In the USA, use of antibiotics results in an animal losing its organic status. Consequently, organic dairy farmers may have specific approaches to health management and disease treatment. Qualitative interviews were conducted with farmers and stockpersons on eighteen dairy farms in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and New York State in October 2010. Eight farmers had used antibiotics after conversion on calves and cows. These were isolated cases except for one farmer who consistently treated all calves with Coccidiosis. Antibiotics were missed by one farmer each for lameness and calf disease but otherwise farmers expressed a general satisfaction with alternative treatment plans in... |
| Tipo: Journal paper |
Palavras-chave: Health and welfare. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/20663/3/20663.pdf |
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| Whistance, Lindsay. |
| Faeces plays a prominant role in the transmission of three major diseases in housed cows, namely, lameness, mastitis and Johne’s disease (Amory et al., 2006; Hughes, 1999; Anon., 2002). Cows show no evidence of latrine behaviour and because their eliminative patterns appear to be random, it is assumed that they have little control over it and that they make no attempt to avoid bodily contamination with excreta (e.g., Hafez and Schein, 1962). The cleanliness of housed cattle is therefore considered to be solely a management issue. At pasture, cattle are known to strongly avoid grazing near dung patches where faeces and the surrounding contaminated grass act as reservoirs for parasites (Marten and Donker, 1964a;b). Michel (1955) found bovine grazing to... |
| Tipo: Report chapter |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food quality and human health Health and welfare Breeding and genetics Feeding and growth. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/15916/1/15916.pdf |
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| Vaarst, Mette; Roderick, Stephen; Smolders, Gidi; Leeb, Christine; Walkenhorst, Michael; Winckler, Christoph; Gratzer, Elisabeth; Stöger, Elisabeth; Whistance, Lindsay; Brinkmann, Jan; March, Solveig; Ivemeyer, Silvia; Mejdell, Cecilie; Henriksen, Britt I. F.; Nicholas, Phillipa. |
| This report covers the project outcome Deliverable 4.2 ‘Analysis completed after a joint effort to identify possibilities in each country as how to facilitate the best possible dialogue regarding animal health and welfare’ as part of the European CORE Organic project ‘Minimising medicine use in organic dairy herds through animal health and welfare planning.’ The work was intended to understand the processes and was analysed from the perspective of the key animal health and welfare (AHW) planning principles developed as part of the project. The analysis was completed on transcripts of interviews of facilitators and advisors who had participated in the ANIPLAN project, some of them as partners in the project group. If animal health and welfare planning... |
| Tipo: Report chapter |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general; Health and welfare. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18406/1/18406.pdf |
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| Vaarst, Mette; Smolders, Gidi; Henriksen, Britt I. F.; Roderick, Stephen; Leeb, Christine; Walkenhorst, Michael; Winckler, Christoph; Gratzer, Elisabeth; Stöger, Elisabeth; Huber, Johann; Brinkmann, Jan; March, Solveig; Ivemeyer, Silvia; Mejdell, Cecilie; Hansen, Berit; Nicholas, Phillipa; Whistance, Lindsay. |
| This chapter is the report of ANIPLAN’s deliverable 4.1 titled: ‘Evaluation report on the state of the art regarding advisor systems, education of farmers and advisors and farmer groups in the participating countries’. The seven participating countries (UK, Switzerland, Austria, The Netherlands, Norway, Germany and Denmark) had widely different approaches to advisory systems and education. This is important to consider when integrating the outcomes of the ANIPLAN project into the various systems in different countries. |
| Tipo: Report chapter |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general; Health and welfare. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18405/1/18405.pdf |
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| Alfoeldi, Thomas; Gantner, Urs; Vaarst, Mette; Algers, Bo; Nicholas, Phillipa; Gratzer, Elisabeth; Henriksen, Britt I. F.; Mejdell, Cecilie; Hansen, Berit; Whay, Becky; Walkenhorst, Michael; Smolders, Gidi; Ivemeyer, Silvia; Hassing, M.; Roderick, Stephen; Leeb, Christine; Winckler, Christoph; Stöger, Elisabeth; Huber, Johann; Brinkmann, Jan; March, Solveig; Whistance, Lindsay. |
| The process of minimising medicine use through dialogue based animal health and welfare planning. Livestock are important in many organic farming systems, and it is an explicit goal to ensure high levels of animal health and welfare (AHW) through good management. In two previous EU network projects, NAHWOA & SAFO, it was concluded that this is not guaranteed merely by following organic standards. Both networks recommended implementation of individual animal health plans to stimulate organic farmers to improve AHW. These plans should include a systematic evaluation of AHW and be implemented through dialogue with each farmer in order to identify goals and plan improvements. 11 research institutions in 7 European countries have been involved in the... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: "Organics" in general; Health and welfare. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/18404/1/18404.pdf |
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| March, Solveig; Brinkmann, Jan; Winckler, Christoph; Whistance, Lindsay; Roderick, Stephen; Vaarst, Mette; Smolders, Gidi. |
| ’Minimising medicine use in organic dairy herds through animal health and welfare planning’, ANIPLAN, is a CORE-Organic project which was initiated in June 2007. The main aim of the project is to investigate active and well planned animal health and welfare promotion and disease prevention as a means of minimising medicine use in organic dairy herds. This aim will be met through the development of animal health and welfare planning principles for organic dairy farms under diverse conditions based on an evaluation of current experiences. This also includes application of animal health and welfare assessment across Europe. In order to bring this into practice the project also aims at developing guidelines for communication about animal health and welfare... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Dairy cattle; Health and welfare. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://orgprints.org/15692/1/15692.pdf |
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