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

On a dairy farm, welfare is a main issue. An increase in welfare is correlated with a higher milk yield (Van Eerdenburg et al., 2013). Measuring welfare in an overall, objective, way has been the subject of discussion for a long period of time and still is. The Welfare Quality welfare assessment protocol® (WQ) was published in 2009 and should solve this issue. However, the protocol is quite intensive and it takes a long time (up to a day) to assess a farm. Several other protocols haven been designed and published that do not require a full day for a single farm and these have been compared with WQ.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Benelux ISAE meeting 2014
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 8 Oct 2014

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