Monday, 15 May 2017

Welfare Indicators of Milking Sheep and Goats in Commercial Farms in Spain

The objective of this work was to evaluate a system for assessing the welfare of milking sheep and goats in practical farm conditions.

The system uses indicators of environmental, management and facilities related welfare. In order to evaluate the animal welfare, 12 indicators ranked in 3 groups were defined.
Commercial Farms in Spain

Environment Animal Welfare (EAW, n = 4) (temperature, airflow, ventilation and ammonia load) Management Animal Welfare (MAW, n = 5) (animal load, bedding, comfort, stress and cleanness of animals) and Facilities Animal Welfare (FAW, n = 3) (feeders of concentrate, feeders of forage and watering).

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