Organic livestock husbandry and breeding

Bernhard Horning, University of Applied Sciences, Germany 

Publications about organic animal husbandry in peer-reviewed journals are relatively scarce. According to Nicholas ef al. (2004), from 472 refereed publications identified in 1981 to 2000, only 9% were on animal related topics. Lund and Algers (2001) found only 22 papers about health and welfare in the ten years from 1991. Furthermore, sample sizes included were often relatively small and comparisons with conventional farms have not always been done according to these authors. 

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