creators_name: Henriksen, Britt I. F.
creators_name: Grøva, Lise
creators_name: Kielland, Camilla
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2006-05-09
lastmod: 2009-09-09 13:40:09
metadata_visibility: show
title: Organic Cow Comfort
- an advisorytool to secure animal welfare on organic dairy farms in Norway 


ispublished: pub
subjects: 7animalhealth
full_text_status: public
abstract: 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.  



date: 2006
date_type: published
refereed: never
citation: 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. Joint Organic Congress, Odense, Denmark, May 30-31, 2006.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/8252/1/Abstract_Britt_Henriksen%2C_Organic_congress_06.doc