Animal breeding and welfare
• The aim in the animal husbundry; to increase income from animals.
For this ???????
• Breed or hybrid
• Environmental conditions
• Ration
• Intensive system
• Extensive system
• Beak trimming
• Forced molting………
• Most of the problems related to welfare in livestock breeding are
related to the environment. Intensive systems are often unsuitable for meeting the behavioral needs of animals. In this case, abnormal
behavior may develop.
• For example ???
• In addition, some management errors in intensive systems also adversely affect animal welfare.
• For example, keeping cattle and sheep on muddy wet ground for a long time causes foot problems.
How do we explain the situation of animals that do not have a significant welfare problem?
What is the relationship among high stocking density, economic productivity and animal welfare?
What parameters are evaluated to obtain an index value for welfare?