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Provedor de dados: | 21
País: | Germany
Título: | Organic Cow Comfort  - an advisorytool to secure animal welfare on organic dairy farms in Norway
Autores: | Henriksen, Britt I. F.; Grøva, Lise; Kielland, Camilla.
Data: | 2006
Ano: | 2006
Palavras-chave: | Health and welfare.
Resumo: | Organic Cow Comfort is an advisory tool in animal welfare, developed to secure animal welfare on organic dairy farms in Norway. The farm advisory tool consists of  • A farm visit by a veterinarian and a production advisor both specialized in animal welfare and organic farming  • An evaluation of herd health and welfare through welfare assessment  • Advice on disease prevention and improve-ment of animal welfare  • Follow up visit by an advisor looking at im-plementation of new initiatives  • Counselling meetings with groups of farmer  The evaluation of herd health and welfare is done with the help of checklists where animal based pa-rameters, farm management and operating systems, and human-animal relationship are recorded. A report is prepared after every farm visit with a health and welfare plan where specific measures for improve-ment of animal welfare are outlined.
Tipo: | Conference paper, poster, etc.
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

http://orgprints.org/8252/1/Abstract_Britt_Henriksen%2C_Organic_congress_06.doc

Henriksen, Britt I. F.; Grøva, Lise and Kielland, Camilla (2006) Organic Cow Comfort - an advisorytool to secure animal welfare on organic dairy farms in Norway. Poster at: Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006.

Relação: | http://orgprints.org/8252/
Formato: | other