8252: Organic Cow Comfort - an advisorytool to secure animal welfare on organic dairy farms in Norway
(2006) Organic Cow Comfort - an advisorytool to secure animal welfare on organic dairy farms in Norway . Paper presented at Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006..
Full text available as: |
Summary
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.
| Document Language: | English |
|---|---|
| Subject Areas: | Animal husbandry > Health and welfare |
| Research affiliation: | International Conferences > Joint Organic Congress 2006 > Theme 8: Animal health and disease handling |
| Total budget (Euro): | 0 |
| Orgprints ID Number: | 8252 |
| Contact: | Vaarst, Mette |
| Deposited On: | 09 May 2006 |
| EPrint Type: | Submit a paper or a poster to a conference |
| Published?: | Published |
| Type of presentation: | Poster |
| Peer Review Status: | Not peer-reviewed |
Archive Staff Only: edit this record
