Contents
- Introduction
- Basics: What is animal-friendly husbandry? Social behavior, resting behavior, food intake, drinking behavior, locomotion, comfort behavior, sexual behavior, mother-child behavior and calf behavior, calf suckling behavior, climatic requirements
- Ammonia reduction
- Functional areas: Lying area - playpen with lying boxes, lying area - freestall with free lying area, lying area - tethering, floor design of the walking area, walking and feeding aisles, feeding, drinking, treating and separating animals, milking parlor, automatic milking systems, stable climate, light, outdoor area: pasture , Outdoor area: outdoor area or run, stairs and ramps, calf keeping, calf rearing, scratching brushes
- Planning data: freedom of movement and outdoor space, design of the outdoor space, feeding and walkway widths, cubicles and lying areas, tethering, calf keeping, floor design, ammonia reduction, stable climate and lighting, straw requirements, feeding and drinking, feed storage, fertilizer storage
- Planning examples: General information, principles for stable planning, exercise stables, cubicle stables, free lying areas, calf stables - 15 planning examples on 22 pages with plans
- Approval process – process
- Contacts
available from the Austrian Board of Trustees for Agricultural Technology and Land Development (ÖKL) at www.oekl.at.