Monitoring welfare in practice on Dutch dairy farms.

Frank van Eerdenburg; Jan Hulsen; Bert Snel; Arjan Stegeman

Monitoring welfare in practice on Dutch dairy farms.

Frank van Eerdenburg
, Jan Hulsen
, Bert Snel
, Arjan Stegeman

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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 XIX ANEMBE
Place of Publication	Oviedo, Spain
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 25 Jun 2014
Event	ANEMBE - Oviedo, Spain Duration: 25 Jun 2014 → 27 Jun 2014

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Conference	ANEMBE
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Oviedo
Period	25/06/14 → 27/06/14

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