Livestock husbandry

Part II provides detailed information on the main quality and safety issues related to the production of organic livestock foods. This includes three chapters (Chapters 7 to 9) which review the effect of livestock husbandry on nutritional and sensory quality of livestock foods including milk and dairy products (Chapter 7), poultry (Chapter 8) and pork (Chapter 9). It also includes four chapters (Chapters 10 to 13) which review the strategies used to minimise microbiological risks and antibiotic and veterinary medicine use in livestock production systems including safety of ruminants (Chapter 10), mastitis treatment in organic dairy production systems (Chapter 11), internal parasites (Chapter 12) and pigs and poultry (Chapter 13). 

Organic livestock husbandry - does a satisfactory concept exist ... 

Livestock husbandry is not explicitly addressed in the historical concepts of organic farming. Livestock provided manure and was therefore an important link in the crop and soil fertility chain. Livestock played a major role on its own only in biodynamic farming, especially cattle whose organs are described as important catalysts of processes and transmitters of cosmic energies (Steiner, 1929). Nonetheless, even the pioneers of biodynamic farming did not consider livestock husbandry from an ethical or animal welfare point of view. 

Organic livestock husbandry methods and the microbiological safety of ruminant production systems... 

Prevention of disease through appropriate livestock husbandry (including feeding regimes) (see also Chapter 10)... 

Livestock husbandry systems which fulfil the animals welfare requirements... 

Loss of dry season gardening, livestock husbandry capability and groundwater recharge and discharge due to degradation of floodplain wetlands. 

Sustainable production of oils and fats starts from sustainable crop plantations and livestock husbandry. Based on Good International Industry Practice (GIIP) as technical reference, Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Guidelines for crop plantation and crop production regulate environmental... 

Disinfectants and sanitizers are used not only in the medical facilities, but also in households, livestock husbandry, foods industry, and public utilities such as tattoo studios, pedicure, solaria and swimming pools. 

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