This paper describes and compares nine methods of assessing the welfare of farm animals at herd level. A distinction is made between two types of welfare parameter: the environmental and the animal-based. The relative weight of these parameters, together with variation in their measurability, explains many of the differences between the methods with which the paper is concerned. To discuss the ...

Understanding consumers' perceptions of animal welfare is becoming increasingly important to livestock industries as they try to communicate their products. Many questions arise within livestock agriculture when trying to implement production systems that are acceptable socially and financially.

Wild and farmed animals are key elements of natural managed ecosystems that deliver functions such as pollination, pest control nutrient cycling within the broader roles they play in contributing to biodiversity every category ecosystem services. They subjected global changes with a profound impact on range viability animal species, emergence spatial distribution pathogens, land use, services f...

Animal Production Science (continuing Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture) publishes original research into applied agriculture including animal production, animal-plant interactions, pasture and fodder crops, field extension horticulture

one of the most important measures, in order to increase animal products and reduce imports, is the industrialization of animal husbandry units, specially the dairy cattle. the condition of milk production would be improved by this industrialization, which is in the direction of increasing the efficiency of milk production units. the purpose of this study is calculate , the efficiency of the tr...

the final goal of all dairy cow raising systems in the world is to use the available capacities and the cooperation of other sectors in order to solve the problems and issues, such as the limitations in time, man power and financial resources, for providing a complete answer. therefore, the need for optimization of cow raising systems by prioritization of measures and plans is the most obvious ...