Welfare Assessment in Calves Fattened According to the "Outdoor Veal Calf" Concept and in Conventional Veal Fattening Operations in Switzerland.

abomasal ulcers animal welfare antimicrobial use housing pneumonia treatment incidence veal industry

Journal

Animals : an open access journal from MDPI
ISSN: 2076-2615
Titre abrégé: Animals (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101635614

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
05 Oct 2020
Historique:
received: 29 08 2020
revised: 29 09 2020
accepted: 01 10 2020
entrez: 8 10 2020
pubmed: 9 10 2020
medline: 9 10 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The "outdoor veal calf" system was developed to encounter the demand for a veal fattening system that allows for reducing antimicrobial use without impairing animal welfare. Management improvements including direct purchase, short transportation, vaccination, three-week quarantine in individual hutches, and open-air housing in small groups in a roofed, straw-bedded paddock with a group hutch were implemented in a prospective intervention study (1905 calves, 19 intervention and 19 control farms, over one year): antimicrobial use was five times lower in "outdoor veal" farms compared to control farms (

Identifiants

pubmed: 33027959
pii: ani10101810
doi: 10.3390/ani10101810
pmc: PMC7599509
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Subventions

Organisme : Swiss National Science Foundation
ID : 407240_167083
Pays : Switzerland

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Auteurs

Lara Moser (L)

Clinic for Ruminants, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.

Jens Becker (J)

Clinic for Ruminants, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.

Gertraud Schüpbach-Regula (G)

Veterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.

Sarah Kiener (S)

Clinic for Ruminants, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.

Sereina Grieder (S)

Ethology and Animal Welfare Unit, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), 8053 Zurich, Switzerland.

Nina Keil (N)

Centre for Proper Housing of Ruminants and Pigs, Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office, Agroscope, 8356 Tänikon, Switzerland.

Edna Hillmann (E)

Ethology and Animal Welfare Unit, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), 8053 Zurich, Switzerland.
Animal Husbandry Division, Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany.

Adrian Steiner (A)

Clinic for Ruminants, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.

Mireille Meylan (M)

Clinic for Ruminants, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Bern, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.

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