Cow environment
Best practice farms optimise the quality and performance of their cows by providing a clean, safe and enriched environment which supports optimal health, welfare and human- animal interactions.
Managing the dry period
Best practice farms promote optimal preparation of cows for calving by adjustment of the diet, treatment of underlying problems, and habituating the animals to post-calving conditions.
Sensory and feeding enrichment
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Cow calving care
Best practice farms achieve healthy, natural calving of their cows by selecting bulls for calving ease, careful management of pregnant animals, close monitoring at calving time to allow timely and effective interventions when needed and interactions with their calves (licking,…
Cow behaviour
Best practice farms have confident cows who express a range of positive natural behaviours by providing an enriched indoor & outdoor environment with kind, animal-centred human-animal interactions.
Council Directive 2008/119/EC of 18 December 2008 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves
This Directive lays down the minimum standards for the protection of calves confined for rearing and fattening.
Council Directive 98/58/EC of 20 July 1998 concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes
This Directive lays down minimum standards for the protection of animals bred or kept for farming purposes.
Farrowing housing and management
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Group-housing and mixing of sows
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Climate control and space allowance
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