animal welfareanimal well-beingdairy cattleThe concepts of animal welfare and well-being in farm animals gain societally and politically in importance. A basic consensus in the understanding of animal welfare may be seen both in Germany and internationally, in politics as well as in science: ...
The Animal Welfare series has been designed to help contribute towards a culture of respect for animals and their welfare by producing academic texts addressing how best to provide for the welfare of the animal species that are managed and cared for by humans. Books in the series do not provid...
Health and Welfare in Danish Dairy Cattle in the Transition to Organic Production: Problems, Priorities and Perspectives During the past few years,organic dairy farming has grown dramatically inDenmark. Consequently, an increasing number ofpeople are encountering this method ... M Vaarst,L Alban,L...
The continuing success of the dairy industry depends upon public perception of the products. If products and production methods were perceived to be bad in respect of human health, the welfare of the animals or the impact of the environment, sales could be severely affected. Animal welfare is ...
welfareandthelivingenvironmentofdairycattle.Allmilk industriesarebasedonmilkfromcows.Therefore,inorderto obtain healthy cows and nutritious milk and milk products, first of all, we should improve the living conditions and environment of cows, and take good care of cows, not press too ...
Lameness is a severe welfare problem and a production-limiting disease in dairy farming. The objectives of this study were to determine prevalence of lameness and investigate cow- and herd-level factors associated with lameness in dairy cows housed in freestall barns in 3 Canadian provinces. A pu...
The aim of the paper is to familiarize veterinarians with a farm animals welfare assessment methodology which is applied in the European Union. Animal welfare assessment methodology presented in this paper refers to dairy cows, beef cattle, sows with piglets, fattening pigs, laying h...
The EFSA has already published advice on the use of animal-based measures in assessing the welfare of dairy cattle and pigs (VR, February 4, 2012, vol 170, p 112). However, it says, some issues arose in producing that advice when a risk assessment approach was combined with a welfare ...
We performed a welfare assessment of Japanese dairy farms using the ANI scoring system. On 25 farms, 36 dairy herds were assessed using the ANI35L/2000-cattle survey. On 10 dairy farms, 16 herds were housed in free-stall barns. The other 20 herds of 15...
Some breeding technology applications are claimed to improve animal welfare: this includes potential applications of genomics and genome editing to improve