3157: Udder health concepts that comply with organic principles - how to reduce therapies?
(2004) Udder health concepts that comply with organic principles - how to reduce therapies?, in Hovi, Malla; Sundrum, Albert and Padel, Susanne, Eds. Organic livestock farming: potential and limitations of husbandry practice to secure animal health and welfare and food quality. Proceedings of the 2nd SAFO Workshop 25-27 March 2004, Witzenhausen, Germany; University of Reading, page pp. 71-75. SAFO Sustaining Animal Health and Food Safety in Organic Farming. A European Commission funded Concerted Action Project.
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Summary
Both the consumers and the legislators expect products from healthy organic livestock. Consequently, keeping farm animals healthy has the highest priority in veterinary work on organic farms. Different Swiss FiBL projects on bovine mastitis in recent years were aimed at health concepts that comply with organic livestock production principles. This paper summarises some of the work carried out.
| Document Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | somatic cell counts, clinical mastitis, Komplementärmedizin, Eutergesundheit, Mastitis |
| Subject Areas: | Animal husbandry > Production systems > Dairy cattle Food systems > Food security, food quality and human health Animal husbandry > Health and welfare |
| Research affiliation: | Switzerland > FiBL > Animal Health |
| Orgprints ID Number: | 3157 |
| Contact: | Walkenhorst, Michael |
| Deposited On: | 06 September 2004 |
| EPrint Type: | Book chapter |
| Published?: | Published |
| Online at: | http://www.safonetwork.org/publications/wp2pub/2_SAFO_pro.pdf |
| Peer Review Status: | Not peer-reviewed |
| Related Links: | http://www.fibl.org/forschung/tiergesundheit/index.php |
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