RAHMANN G & GODINHO D (Ed.) (2012): Tackling the Future Challenges of Organic Animal Husbandry. Proceedings of the 2 nd OAHC, Hamburg/Trenthorst, Germany, Sep 12-14, 2012 Content Cattle and climate together 14 ANDRE LEU Animal Husbandry and Climate Change in Organic Production Systems 15 KLAUS STRUBER Using Workhorses in agriculture: Farming of yesterday or of tomorrow?...19 DAGMAR SCHAUB, HANS MARTEN PAULSEN, CLAUS ROSEMANN, BRITTA BLANK, GEROLD RAHMANN Emissions of greenhouse gases from dairy farms - a case study using the German agricultural emission model GAS-EM 22 CHARLES BENBROOK, BRIAN BAKER Shades of green - Global implicatons of choises for dairy systems in the United States 26 MAXIMILIAN SCHULER, HANS MARTEN PAULSEN An LCA based comparison of two different dairy breeds in an organic farm 30 ALLEN G. MATTHEWS, JUAN ALVEZ Sustainability Indicators for Low Carbon Farming 34 ANITA IDEL \ Cows are not climate killers! The undervalued potentials of grass and grazers for nutrition 38 Future markets for organic livestock products 42 SUMER HASIMOGLU Food (meat) consumption and socio-econoic context of EU on PC versus alternative approach - PAHU 43 SOLEDAD ALVAREZ, CARLOS PALACIOS Spanish organic livestock: Evolution from 2001 to 2010 47 FISSEHA KASSAHUN KEBEDE, JURGEN GREILING, MEKONNEN HAILEMARIAM, ABEBE TESSEMA, HIWOT DESTA Dairy value chain analysis in Arsi zone, Ethopia 51 MAHESH CHANDER, RAMSWARUP SINGH RATHORE, REENA MUKHERJEE, SHYAMAL KUMAR MONDAL AND SANJAY KUMAR Road map for organic animal husbandry development in India!, 59 FABIAN CRUZ URIBE, CAROLINA PRIETO Evaluation of livestock production in Colombia and experiences within an organic farm when using an associative model 63 SUBRAHMANYESWARI, B AND MAHESH CHANDER Experienced benefits and risks perceived by organic farmers in conversion to livestock production 67 RODRIGO OLIVARES PINEDA, MANUEL ANGEL GOMEZ CRUZ AND RITA SCHWENTESIUS RINDERMANN Conversion potential of conventional cattle farms to organic production systems in the State of Tabasco, Mexico 70 JASPER LIDWINA HEERKENS, FRANK A TUYTTENS Consumer perception and communication on welfare in organic laying hen farming 75 ELBA RIVERA URBINA, VICTORIA LOPEZ URBINA Animal, husbandry, women, husbands, family 79
Agriculture and Forestry Research, Special Issue No 362 (Braunschweig, 2012) ISSN 0376-0723 Download: www.vti.bund.de/en/startseite/vti-publications/landbauforschung-special-issues.html Organic grazing systems in wet areas 82 OLANITE JIMOH ALAO, DELE PETER ANIWE AND ARIGBEDE OLUWASANMI MOSES Effects of animal manure and harvest interval on the growth, dry matter yield and nutritive quality of three grasses at Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria 83 URBANO G. P. DE ABREU, THIAGO B. DE CARVALHO, GABRIELA G. RIBEIRO, SERGIO DE ZEN, ANDRE S. MORAES, IVENS DOMINGOS Production cost of organic beef cattle production system in Pantanal - Brazil 88 EVA SALOMON, KARL-IVAR KUMM, LENA LIDFORS, KRISTINA LINDGREN, GUNNAR TORSTENSSON A rotational winter grazing system for beef cattle - production costsin relation to animal welfare, working environment and environmental impact 93 OLUSEGUN OLADIPO SANSI, JOLADE SANSI A comparative analysis of the conventional beef export outputs from Subsaharan African countries and beef outputs from organic beef exporting developing countries 97 ERIC ANDREW MEILI Performance and efficiency of organic low input pasture beef production 100 Organic grazing systems in dry areas 102 ILSE KOHLER-ROLLEFSON, RAZIQ KAKAR, KAMAL KLSHORE, HANWANT SLNGH RATHORE, JACOB WANYAMA The Ark of Livestock Biodiversity 103 VISHNU SHARMA & SANJITA SHARMA Linking nomadic and marginal livestock keepers in organized organic system: cost effective production module 107 JUDITH ISELE, FRANZ EKKEHARD KULBS Tackling the challenges of organic livestock production in Namibia with the help of Holistic Management 108 OLADAPO A. FASAE AND MICHAEL ADELEGAN Effect of wilted cassava foliage supplementation on the growth and parasitic infestation in village managed goats in Nigeria 113 ABDULRAZZAQ ABDULHAMEED ABDULLAH AL-RAWI, SADALLA MOHAMED SALEH Characterization of sheep management system in Dohuk(Iraq) 117 JALAL ELIYA SHAMOON ALKASS Performance of Black and Meriz goats raised on pasture conditions in Kurdistan region of Iraq 121 GORAN MOHAMMAD KARIM, ABDULRAZZAQ ABDULHAMEED ABDULLAH AL-RAWI Fokus on sheep flocks management in Sulaimani (Iraq) 124 Improving health and welfare in organic animal husbandry 128 JAN BRINKMANN, SOLVEIG MARCH, CHRISTOPH WINCKLER 'Stable Schools' to promote animal health in organic dairy farming - First results of a pilot study in Germany 129 CHRISTOPHENOTZ, ARIANE MAESCHLI, PAMELA STA'EHLI, MICHAEL WALKENHORST, PETER KLOCKE, SILVIA IVEMEYER Feed no Food - influence of minimized concentrate feeding on animal health and performance of Swiss organic dairy cows, 133
RAHMANN G & GODINHO D (Ed.) (2012): Tackling the Future Challenges of Organic Animal Husbandry. Proceedings of the 2 nd OAHC, Hamburg/f renthorst, Germany, Sep 12-14, 2012 ANGELA ESCOSTEGUY AND MELISSA BOSSARDI Knowledge and interest of the Brazilian veterinary class in organic husbandry: preliminary survey 137 SUSANNE HOISCHEN-TAUBNER, ALBERT SUNDRUM Impact matrix: a tool to improve animal health by a systemic approach 140 KATHARINE LEACH, ZOE BARKER, CLARE MAGGS, ANOUSKA SEDGWICK, HELEN WHAY, NICK BELL, DAVID MAIN Activities of organic farmers succeeding in reducing lameness in dairy cows 144 SOLVEIG MARCH, JAN BRINKMANN, KERSTIN BARTH, CHRISTOPH DRERUP, JOHANNES ISSELSTEIN, DORIS KLOCKE, VOLKER KROMKER, FERDINAND MERSCH, JURGEN MULLER,.PETRA RAUCH, ULRICH SCHUMACHER, HUBERT SPIEKERS, ARNE TICHTER, OTTO VOLLING, MARTIN WEILER, MARTIN WEIB, CHRISTOPH WINCKLER Interdisciplinary intervention in German organic dairy farms - results on mastitis and metabolic disorders 148 Organic egg production 152 VERONIKA MAURER, ZIVILE AMSLER-KEPALAITE, FELIX HECKENDORN, MARTIN ROLLER, ERIKA PERLER, ESTHER ZELTNER Run management for organic layers, N. 153 MONIQUE BESTMAN, JAN-PAUL WAGENAAR Health and welfare in organic laying hens in The Netherlands \ 156 OLUSEGUN MARK IDOWU, ADEBOYE OLUSESAN FAFIOLU AND ABILAWON BUNMI OLAOGUN Effect of husbandry systems on productive performance and behaviour of laying chickens reared in the tropics '. 160 SARDAR YASEEN TAHA A comparison of egg quality from hens reared under organic and commercial systems 164 Organic poultry systems for meat production 168 CHRISTIANE KEPPLER, WILLY BAUMANN, FEHIM SMAJLHODZIC, KNUTNIEBUHR, NIELS FINN JOHANSEN, MARION STAACK, UTE KNIERIM Free range for organic pullets?... 169 WERNER VOGT-KAUTE, CARLO HORN, JORG GROBE-LOCHTMANN Les Bleues - a new approach to dual purpose chicken 173 GUSTAVO F. D. ALMEIDA, KLAUS HORSTED, STIG M. THAMSBORG AND JOHN E. HERMANSEN Dietary supplementation of Artemisia annua to free range broilers and its effects on gastro-intestinal parasite infections 176 Alternative approaches in organic dairy farming 180 EDNA HILLMANN, BEATRICE A. ROTH, JULIA JOHNS, SUSANNE WAIBLINGER AND KERSTIN BARTH Dam-associated rearing as animal friendly alternative to artificial rearing in dairy cattle 181 PATRICK MEYER-GLITZA, TON BAARS Non-killing cattle husbandry...184 KATHARINA A. ZIPP, SARAH BRANDT, NORA IRRGANG, UTE KNIERIM How much space do horned dairy cows need in the waiting area? 188 ANJA SCHWALM, HEIKO GEORG Electronic animal identification and organic farming 191 >
Agriculture and Forestry Research, Special Issue No 362 (Braunschweig, 2012) ISSN 0376-0723 Download: www.vti.bund.de/en/startseite/vti-publications/landbauforschung-special-issues.html OTTO VOLLING Status quo of the practice of polling on organic dairy farms in Lower Saxony, Germany 195 CYNTHIA VERWER, AKKE KOK Alternative weaning strategies to diminish acute distress during weaning and separation from the dam after prolonged suckling 198 Organic goats and sheep systems 206 MARGARITA NOVOA-GARRIDO, LISE AANENSEN, VIBEKE LIND, HANS JORGEN S. LARSEN, SOREN K. JENSEN, ESPEN GOVASMARK AND HAVARD STEINSHAMN Immunological effects of feeding different sources of vitamin E and seaweed in a sheep herd during the winter season 207 ASTRID HEID, ULRICH HAMM Development of a marketing concept for organic goat meat from dairy goat farms 211 M. M. KAMAL, S. K. MONDAL, S. S. ISLAM AND M. S. ISLAM Present status of goat rearing under rural conditions in south-west regions of Bangladesh 215 VAN EEKEREN, N & GOVAERTS, W. Success of a participatory research and extension programme in the Dutch organic dairy goat sector 222 TANJA STUHR, KAREN AULRICH, KERSTIN BARTH, KARIN KNAPPSTEIN. Prevalence of udder infections and effects on milk somatic cell count during lactation in dairy goats 226 CARLOS PALACIOS, CRISTINA HIDALGO, RAMON ALVAREZ, PILAR RODRIGUEZ, SOLEDAD ALVAREZ, ISABEL REVILLA Comparison of environmental and economic indicators of organic and conventional sheep farms in milk production.229 ISABEL REVILLA, CARLOS PALACIOS, CRISTINA HIDALGO, RAMON ALVAREZ, PILAR RODRIGUEZ Effect of production system, organic vs conventional, on antioxidant capacity of sheep milk..233 ISABEL REVILLA, CARLOS PALACIOS, ANA MARIA VIVAR QUINTANA Differences between organic and conventional ewe's milk cheese during the ripening process237 S. WERNE, V. MAURER, E. PERLER, Z. AMSLER, J. PROBST, C. ZAUGG, I. KRENMAYR, M. SCHWERY, H. VOLKEN AND F. HECKENDORN Sainfoin -New Data on Anthelmintic Effects and Production in Sheep and Goats 241 GIDI SMOLDERS, NICK VAN EEKEREN, WIM GOVEARTS Effect of vitamin E and selenium and different types of milk on health and growth of organic goat kids 247 ELENA ILISIU, STELIAN DARABAN, RADUCU RADU, IOAN PADEANU, VASILE-CALIN ILISIU, CONSTANTIN PASCAL AND GEROLD RAHMANN The romaniantsigai sheep breed, their potential for organic cheese production 251 Sustainablity in organic dairy farming 256 HEIKO GEORG AND TAHA ASHOUR Sustainable livestock buildings - a challenge for the future of organic farming 257 STEFAN SELLMAN, ANNIE JONSSON, BO ALGERS, PATRIK FLISBERG, MATHIAS HENNINGSSON, NINA HAKANSSON, MIKAEL RONNQVIST, UNO WENNERGREN Reducing the amount of slaughter transports in modern Swedish cattle production systems...262 MARCO HORN, WILHELM KNAUS, LEOPOLD KIRNER AND ANDREAS STEINWIDDER Economic Evaluation of Longevity in Organic Dairy Farming...266
RAHMANN G & GODINHO D (Ed.) (2012): Tackling the Future Challenges of Organic Animal Husbandry. Proceedings of the 2 nd OAHC, Hamburg/Trenthorst, Germany, Sep 12-14, 2012 BRITTA BLANK, DAGMAR SCHAUB, HANS MARTEN PAULSEN, GEROLD RAHMANN Herd parameters in organic and conventional dairy farms and their role in greenhouse gas emissions from milk production 270 ALBERT SUNDRUM AND ULRICH SUNDER Striving for efficiency in nutrient utilisation on organic dairy farms 274 KATHARINE LEACH, CATHERINE GERRARD, ANNE BRAAD KUDAHL, ARJA NYKANEN, METTE VAARST, ROSWITHA WEISSENSTEINER, & SUSANNE PADEL Assessing the sustainability of EU dairy farms with different management systems and, husbandry practices..7... 278 Organic pig systems... 284 RALF BUSSEMAS, FRIEDRICH WEIBMANN A study on single versus group housed organic lactating sows concerning piglet performance and sow behaviour 285 FRIEDRICH WEIBMANN, RALF BUSSEMAS, ANNA FALK A study on four feeding strategies of 100% organic origin for piglets concerning performance, health status, losses and economy in organic agriculture 289 ASTRID HEID, ULRICH HAMM Alternatives to piglet castration without pain relief- Acceptance and willingness-to-pay of organic consumers in Germany 292 ANNA WALLENBECK, KAROLINA THORELL, MARIA ALARIK Variation in sow and piglet performance in organic production: influences of herd and sire bree 296 DA VIDE BOCHICCHIO, MLCHELE COMELLINI, GLANNI MARCHETTO, JACOPO GORACCI AND GIACINTO DELLA CASA Effect of different pastures on backfat fatty acid composition in organic Cinta Senese pig 299 DAVIDE BOCHICCHIO, MLCHELE COMELLINI, ROSA MARCHETTI, GLLDA PONZONI AND GIACINTO DELLA CASA Organic C and total N dynamics in soil in an organic pig farm 303 Future breeding 308 WYTZE NAUTA, ANET SPENGLERNEFF, JOANNE CONINGTON, THERESE AHLMAN, PETER LOVENDAHL, LOTTA RYDHMER Organic Animal Breeding 2012 - a Position Paper from the European Consortium for Organic Animal Breeding, Eco AB 309, KERSTIN BARTH, KARIN KNAPPSTEIN, KAREN AULRICH, UTE MULLER, FRANZ SCHULZ Udder health status of cows in early lactation - a comparison between a dairy and a dual purpose breed 321 M. SELLE, S. IVEMEYER, A. SPENGLER, C. REIBER, A. VALLE ZARATE The influence of farm and herd factors on the health status of organic dairy cattle under low concentrate feeding considering an assessment-tool for site-related'breeding 324 DEVENDRA PRASAD BHANDARI Organic animal husbandry of Achham cattle, worlds smallest cattle breed 331 MARCO HORN, ANDREAS STEINWIDDER, LEOPOLD PODSTATZKY, JOHANN GASTEINER AND WERNER ZOLLITSCH Comparison of two different dairy cow types in an organic, low input milk production system under Alpine conditions 335
Agriculture and Forestry Research, Special Issue No 362 (Braunschweig, 2012) ISSN 0376-0723 Download: www.vti.bund.de/en/startseite/vti-publications/landbauforschung-special-issues.html i DEVINDER KUMAR SADANA Breeds and breeding strategies for sustainable and organic production from livestock and poultry 339 THERESE AHLMAN, ANNA WALLENBECK, MAGNUS LJUNG Organic producers' preferences regarding traits important in dairy production 343 WYTZE NAUTA The birth of an organic dairy breeding programme 347 TIBOR KONYVES, LASZLO LENGYEL The present state and future of Organic Farming in North-Serbian region in view of genetic resources '. 351 MONIQUE BESTMAN, FERRY LEENSTRA, VERONIKA MAURER, FRANS VAN SAMBEEK, ESTHER ZELTNER, BERRY REUVEKAMP, ZIVILE AMSLER-KEPALAITE, FABIEN GALEA AND THEA VAN NlEKERK Performance of commercial laying hen genotypes on free range and organic farms in Switzerland, France and The Netherlands 355 ANET SPENGLERNEFF, RIET PEDOTTI, ANDI SCHMID Assessment of Siterrelated Breeding of Dairy Cattle on Organic Farms in a Swiss Mountain Region 360 PRABIR K. PATHAK, MAHESH CHANDER Sahiwal and Gir cattle: treasure for small holder organic dairy farming? 365 10
RAHMANN G & GODINHO D (Ed.) (2012): Tackling the Future Challenges of Organic Animal Husbandry. Proceedings of the 2 nd OAHC, Hamburg/Trenthorst, Germany, Sep 12-14,2012 Future feeding 370 LISA BALDINGER, WERNER HAGMULLER, ULRIKE SPANLANG, MARLENE MATZNER, WERNER ZOLLITSCH Sainfoin seeds as protein source for weaned piglets - a new utilization of a long-known forage legume- 371 GILLIAN BUTLER, SOKRATIS STERGIADIS, GORDON TWEDDLE AND CARLO LEIFERT Improving consistency in quality of organic milk throughout the year 375 BIRGITTA JOHANSSON, KARL-IVAR KUMM, ELISABET NADEAU Cold-pressed rapeseed cake or rapeseed to dairy cows - milk production and profitability -...379 ROSWITHA WEISSENSTEINER, WERNER HAGMULLER, WERNER ZOLLITSCH Effects of two different feeding concepts on reproductive performance of lactating sows fed 100 % organic diets 383 MARDIATI, ZAIN, ARNIM, R.W.S. NINGRAT AND R. HERAWATI Supplementation Sacharomyces cerevisiae and Leucaena leucocephala of rice straw based feed in beef cattle diet 386 SALOME WAGELI AND ULRICH HAMM Local feed in organic animal production: a market opportunity? 390 BIRGITTA JOHANSSON, KARIN PERSSON WALLER, SOREN K JENSEN, HANNA LINDQVIST, ELISABET NADEAU Effects on vitamin status and health in dairy cows fed without synthetic vitamins 394 REBECCA NELDER, JO SMITH, RUTH CLEMENTS AND BRUCE PEARCE 100% local and organic: closing the protein gap for poultry in the ICOPP Project 398 KAREN AULRICH, HERWART BOHM Quality of organic legumes - prediction of main ingredients and amino acids by Near-Infrared Spectroscopy 401 NIRANJAN LAL, H.P.S. ARYA, M.P.SAGAR AND RENU SINGH Green fodder Cultivation and their Feeding Practices by Indian Livestock Owners: Under climate change conditions 404 Jo SMITH 1, KATHARINE LEACH 1, MARKETTA RINNE 2, KAISA KUOPPALA 2, AND SUSANNE PADEL Integrating willow-based bioenergy and organic dairy production - the role of tree fodder for feed supplementation -... 407 LINUS K. NDONGA, DAVID SOLOMON NDEGWA Challenges of organic animal husbandry: promise of grain amaranth 411 MARKETTA RINNE, CATALIN DRAGOMIR, KAISA KUOPPALA, CHRISTINA MARLEY, Jo SMITH, AND DAVID YANEZ RUIZ Novel and underutilized feed resources - potential for use in organic and low input dairy production 417 Future food safety and security 422 Ewa Metera, Tomasz Sakowski, Beata Kuczynska, Kamila Puppel, Marcin Gol^biewski, Anna Brzozowska, Krzysztof Sloniewski Bioactive properties of organic milk fat 423 KATRIN SPORKMANN, SOPHIA BENDER, GRACIA UDE, HEIKO GEORG & GEROLD RAHMANN "Feed less Food" Low input strategy results in better milk quality in organic dairy goats 426 NITYA S. GHOTGE Organic for Whom?: the dilemma faced by small livestock producers in developing countries430 11
Agriculture and Forestry Research, Special Issue No 362 (Braunschweig, 2012) ISSN 0376-0723 Download: www.vti.bund.de/en/startseite/vti-publications/landbauforschung-special-issues.html Aspects of treatments.. 436 ALAN THATCHER Grazing Strategies to Prevent Parasitism of Organic Dairy Calves 437 MARION JOHNSON The contribution of Maori Traditional medicine to Animal Health on Organic Farms 441 OTTO SCHMID, STEFAN KNUTTI Animal welfare in organic farming legislations and standards - analysis & proposal for a more outcome-oriented approach/tool - 446 HAVARD STEINSHAMN, INGVILD STEINNES LUTEBERGET, S0REN K JENSEN, ERLING THUEN a-tocopherol in plasma and milk from organically managed dairy cows fed natural or synthetic vitamin E or seaweed 450 PETER KLOCKE, ARIANE MAESCHLI, SILVIA IVEMEYER, MICHAEL WALKENHORST, CHRISTOPHE NOTZ Complementary and alternative medicine as a first line therapy in control of clinical mastitis 454 AJANTHA PRIYADARSHIN PALIHAWADANA Traditional Treatment of Cattle Diseases in Sri Lanka 458 GUSTAVO F. D. ALMEIDA, KLAUS HORSTED, STIG M. THAMSBORG AND JOHN E. HERMANSEN Strategies to reduce severity of coccidia infections in organic poultry systems by the use of plant extracts 462 Claudia Lotti, Andrea Martini, Cinzia Sassoli, Duccio Pradella, Antonella Cersini, Flavia Taccori, Giuseppe Ragona, Riccardo Dainelli Integrative medicine treatments can improve the resistance of organic honeybee's families to common pathologies..466 DANIEL SZALAI, TAMAS SZALAI The control of Varroa mite in Hungarian organic apiculture 470 Miscellaneous i 473 DISMAS MAHESHE BIRINGANINE How to leverage food security through livestock and agri-ecology system 474 Maria Wivstad, Siri Caspersen, Pelle Fredriksson, Stefan Gunnarsson, Ruben Hoffmann, Axel Mie, Ulf Nilsson, Elin Roos, Eva Salomon, Cecilia Sundberg, Karin Ullven, Anna Wallenbeck and Camilla Winqvist EPOK - Centre for Organic Food and Farming, Sweden 476 VITA STRAZDINA, ALEKSANDRS JEMELJANOVS, VITA STERNA, DAINIS PAEGLITIS Evaluation of nutrition value of deer meat obtained in Latvia farms and wildlife 478 12