Abstract
Animal welfare of an individual is defined by [1] as its state as regards its attempts to cope with its environment. Effects on welfare which can be described include those of disease, injury, starvation, housing conditions, veterinary treatment etc [2]. Referring to Broom, animal health could thus be an effect of animal welfare. But as far as I can see, animal health can also be regarded on as a matter per se, with or without effects on animal welfare. Since animal welfare is discussed by Karl Erik Hammarberg, I intend to speak mostly of sheep and goat health.
Highlights
There are different ways to assemble data in order to get a picture of animal health: registrations made by the farmer, veterinary treatments, lamb growth, milk production, meat inspections, carcass weights and conformations
Veterinary treatments Practitioners send registrations from the farm visits to a central database, including diagnoses, treatments, vaccinations, blood-sampling etc. These registrations do not include whether the animal is organically or conventionally reared, preclude the possibility to compare veterinary treatments in different types of production
Up till there have been four projects run by Swedish Animal Health Service with funds from Swedish National Board of Agriculture: three on internal parasites in organic sheep flocks and one on health problems
Summary
There are different ways to assemble data in order to get a picture of animal health: registrations made by the farmer, veterinary treatments, lamb growth, milk production, meat inspections, carcass weights and conformations. Key words Data collection, health registrations, veterinary treatments, lamb growth, milk production, meat inspections, carcass weights and conformations, projects, flock visits, future measurements. KRAVor Demeter-certified products are allowed to be sold as organically produced.) 8 200 sheep flocks with 194 000 winter fed ewes are officially registered in Sweden (SCB 2000).
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