Investigation of the cruelty in newborn calf management of dairy herds in Sicily: some legal considerations

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Investigation of the cruelty in newborn calf management of dairy herds in Sicily: some legal considerations

Original language description

The process of improvement of livestock production aims to maximize a farm's profits. In the rearing of high milk production dairy cows the increasing incidence of production costs on income has led farmers to make some changes in herd management. The importance of fertility characteristics in dairy cattle influences the farming typology. Milk production depends on an efficient frequency of births. In addition, an efficient reproduction program allows for greater choice among productive characteristics able to ensure higher genetic progress (increase of the intensity of selection) for the selected characteristics. The key activity of a dairy cattle farm is, therefore, calving, which both produces a new calf and enables the cow to enter in the milk production chain. Indeed, on these farms, the cow acquires greater economic importance for the farmer with the birth of a female calf. The birth of male calves is a disadvantage on dairy farms, and represents an economic loss for the farmer. For these reasons, the farmer does not register the male calf after the birth and frequently he kills or abandons it. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the existence of such injurious management towards male calves investigating some dairy cattle farms in the Ragusa province (Sicily, Italy) and carry out some legislative considerations.

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

GJ - Diseases and animal vermin, veterinary medicine

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Ochrana zvířat a welfare 2016

ISBN

978-80-7305-780-0

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Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

279-285

Publisher name

Veterinární a farmaceutická univerzita Brno

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Brno

Event date

Oct 6, 2016

Type of event by nationality

CST - Celostátní akce

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