Frequenza Delle Curve DI Lattazione Standard e Atipiche Per Latte, Grasso, Proteine e Lattosio in Bovine DI Razza Bianca Val Padana (original) (raw)

Variazioni Stagionali DI Indicatori DI Benessere in Allevamenti Lombardi DI Bovine Da Latte in Aree DI Pianura, Collinari e Pedemontane

2012

Seasonal variations of some welfare indicators in dairy farms located in plain, hilly and piedmont areas in Lumbardy - One of the main priorities of the agricultural EU policies is to set up valid, reliable and feasible indicators for on-farm welfare assessment. The EU Welfare Quality® project has developed a set of valid and feasible indicators, that have also been tested for inter-observer repeatability. For those indicators, repeatability between different times of survey has already been tested, but always within limited time spans; therefore, we have no information about their long-term repeatability, e.g. in extremely different seasonal conditions. We can hypothesize that more or less marked seasonal variations can occur, depending on farms' geographical location. In order to verify this hypothesis, we collected some welfare indicators, derived from the Welfare Quality ® protocol, in 22 dairy farms located in plain, hilly and piedmont areas in Lumbardy, both in summer and ...