Organic Cow Comfort - an advisorytool to secure animal welfare on organic dairy farms in Norway Britt I. F.HenriksenauthorLiseGrøvaauthorCamillaKiellandauthorOrganic 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. Health and welfare2006Conference paper, poster, etc.