Housing calves in small groups of 2 7 calves pre weaning has welfare benefits compared to both individual housing and housing in larger groups. Individual housing in the milk feeding period is stressful for calves because it prevents social behaviour and restricts calves movement. Housing calves in groups larger than 7 calves is associated increased incidence of respiratory disease.
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Resilience For Dairy
This factsheet explains how bringing a team of farmer, vet, feed and farm advisors together is sharing different sources of knowledge together, making the Multi Actor Farm Health approach an effective approach to improve biosecurity on poultry farms
An infographic providing a compact overview on Polish company approach to recycle organic waste and by-products.
This factsheet presents the biosecurity audit tool Biocheck Ugent, that can give a biosecurity scoring in poultry farms to measure biosecurity level.