The importance
of animal welfare in the animal production industry is growing increasingly,
not only by legal requirements but for its effects on productivity. Only if the
animals are in a proper degree of comfort can be achieved optimal production
levels. However, the assessment of animal welfare in commercial dairy goats andsheep intensive farms is not well defined yet.
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| Milking Sheep and Goats |
Several
procedures to assess the animal welfare have been proposed worldwide. In
addition, according to Dungey, qualitative welfare assessment procedures are
reliable and have been used in sheep. In all cases, indicators should be valid,
reliable, economical and measurable in practical conditions. The aim of this
study is to assess the system proposed by Nanta to measure welfare of sheep and
goat milking flocks, in practical operating conditions. The variations of the parameters
set up, depending on the Spanish region, farm size and level of production have
also studied.
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