ANIPLAN

Development and testing of animal based parameters for evaluation of animal health and welfare (WP3)

This work package is built up on the following activities:

1. Adaptation of existing animal-based health and welfare parameters, e.g. on the basis of the results from WelfareQuality and other existing assessment protocols.     
2. Development of a calf welfare plan. The development takes primarily place in Norway and will be used in other countries to the extent that it is possible in their time planning.  

We plan to assess animal health and welfare on 10-20 farms/country in Norway, Denmark, Austria, UK, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and give immediate feedback to farmers, which in some cases also include filling in the results to a database on-farm. 

The results of these assessments will be used in WP2 (be implemented as an evaluation tool for animal health and welfare planning), WP4 (included in discussions in farmer groups or health advisory systems) and WP5 (epidemiological analyses of herd results).