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SUBMITTER: van Eerdenburg FJCM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8003747 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
van Eerdenburg Frank J C M FJCM Di Giacinto Alice M AM Hulsen Jan J Snel Bert B Stegeman J Arjan JA
Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 20210319 3
The Welfare Quality<sup>®</sup> assessment protocol (WQ) is the most extensive way to measure animal welfare. This study was set up to determine if resource-based welfare indicators, that are easier and faster to measure, could replace the more time consuming, animal-based measurements of the WQ. The WQ was applied on 60 dairy farms in the Netherlands, with good, moderate and poor welfare. The WQ protocol classified most farms (87%) as 'acceptable'. Several of the animal-based measures of WQ cor ...[more]