Monitoring welfare in practice on Dutch dairy farms

F.J.C.M. van Eerdenburg; J.A. Stegeman; Bert Snel; Jan Hulsen

Monitoring welfare in practice on Dutch dairy farms

F.J.C.M. van Eerdenburg, J.A. Stegeman, Bert Snel, Jan Hulsen

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Abstract

The results of three welfare assessment protocols have been correlated with the Welfare Quality® assessment protocol on 60 dairy farms in the Netherlands. After adaptations to the WQ protocol, an alternative assessment protocol could be constructed of components of the other three. This had a correlation with the adapted WQ of 0.88. Execution of this new welfare monitor takes approximately 1.5 h for a farm with 100 dairy cows. This protocol is now being integrated in the Koekompas (=Cow Compass), a management assistance tool.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the XVII International Congress on Animal Hygiene
Place of Publication	Kosice, Slovakia
Pages	24-25
Number of pages	2
Publication status	Published - 9 Jun 2015

Keywords

animal welfare
assessment
Dairy cattle

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