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Farm Animal Welfare in Organic Production - Dairy Cattle
Animal Welfare Assessment
- Animal Welfare Task Force (AWTF) has provided additional guidance for the optimal welfare of dairy cattle
- Assessment of the welfare of dairy cattle using animal-based measurements
- Give a Cow a Name and She Will Give You More Milk
- New national Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Dairy Cattle (PDF, 1.3 MB)
- Organic dairy farming in Europe
- Outline of cow welfare critical control points for dairies
- Suitability of Purebred and Crossbred Dairy Cows for Organic Systems
Calf Care
- NEW!! Calf welfare in organic herds - Planning for the future (PDF, 2.5 MB)
- The potential of suckling systems in calf rearing in Dutch organic dairy farming: practical implementation and live weight development
- Raising calves on organic dairy farms (PDF, 346 kb)
- Prolonged calving interval and reduced supplementation in an organic dairy herd
- Suckling systems in calf rearing in organic dairy farming in the Netherlands
Disease and Parasite Management
- The ability of the biological control agent Duddingtonia flagrans to reduce the availability of livestock parasites on pasture
- An approach to the study of mastitis control in organic dairy herds in the UK (FAO)
- Biologic and botanical approaches to dairy treatments
- Control of lice and mange mites in cattle
- Different grazing systems and their effect on survival of internal worms of cattle
- Efficacy of homeopathic preparations in the prevention of mastitis in dairy cattle
- Ethnoveterinary medicines used for ruminants in British Columbia, Canada
- Homeopathic mastitis control in Ireland
- Index of Cattle Diseases
- Managing Parasites of Grazing Livestock
- Organic parasite control in cattle (ATTRA)
- Somatic Cell Counts of Dairy Cows following Homeopathic and Antibiotic Mastitis Treatment
- Towards an Organic System for Cattle Fly Control: a Push and a Pull?
- Whacking the hornet nest: Talking about humane cow care is a good thing, isn’t it?
Feed Access
- NEW!! Assessment of welfare and productive performance in dairy cows organically reared in plains or hilly areas
- Cow comfort and stall maintenance
- Heat stress in ruminants
- Planning for reduced stress in the herringbone milking parlour
- Stall dimensions and the prevalence of lameness, injury, and cleanliness on 317 tie-stall dairy farms in Ontario (OMAFRA) (PDF, 793 kb)
- A review of welfare in cattle, sheep and pig lairages, with emphasis on stocking rates, ventilation and noise
Lameness
- The Effects of Lameness on Social and Individual Behavior of Dairy Cows
- Identifying lameness in dairy cattle
Pain Management
- Pain management in livestock husbandry: Disbudding and dehorning
- Reducing pain due to caustic paste dehorning
Slaughter