Contents
- Introduction
- Fundamentals: What constitutes animal-friendly husbandry? Social behavior, resting behavior, feeding, drinking behavior, locomotion, comfort behavior, sexual behavior, mother-child behavior and calf behavior, calf suckling behavior, climatic requirements
- Ammonia reduction
- Functional areas: Lying area – loose housing with cubicles, Lying area – loose housing with open lying area, Lying area – tie-stall housing, Floor design of the walking area, Walking and feeding passages, Feeding, Watering, Treating and separating animals, Milking parlor, Automatic milking systems, Barn climate, Lighting, Outdoor area: Pasture, Outdoor area: Outdoor area or run, Stairs and ramps, Calf housing, Heifer rearing, Scratching brushes
- Planning data: Freedom of movement and outdoor area, design of the outdoor area, feeding and walking area widths, cubicles and lying areas, tie-stall housing, calf housing, floor design, ammonia reduction, barn climate and lighting, straw requirements, feeding and drinking, feed storage, manure storage
- Planning examples: General information, principles for barn planning, free-range barns, cubicle barns, open lying areas, calf barns - 15 planning examples on 22 pages with plans
- Approval process – procedure
- Contacts
The brochure is available from the Austrian Board of Trustees for Agricultural Engineering and Rural Development (ÖKL) at www.oekl.at.