%0 Conference Paper
%A Henriksen, Britt I. F.
%A Grøva, Lise
%A Kielland, Camilla
%D 2006
%F orgprints:8252
%T Organic Cow Comfort  - an advisorytool to secure animal welfare on organic dairy farms in Norway     
%U http://orgprints.org/8252/
%X 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.