ANIMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THROUGH USE OF

ANIMAL WELFARE PRINCIPLES

S# Issue Back ground reason Possible Solutions
1 Improvement in Increased demand Modified breeds induction
Production Local/export Management system
Milk, Meat, others Economic reason Efficient feeding systems
Quantitative and Commercial Production Automatic feeding and watering,
Qualitative Market needs Health cover, Better housing,
2 Disease, early Lack of regular Health cover on regular basis,
mortality Vaccination and improvement in the colostrum and
deworming milk feeding practices
3 Pain while tagging, Farm Management system Alternate techniques to minimize
dehorning, pain and stress factors
disbudding,
castration, docking,
4 Body Condition Weak and emaciated Feed type and feeding frequency,
improvement animals are more prone to balanced feeding, TMR based
infections and infestations feeding
5 Fight, fear and other Trespassing, Mixing and Assort animals according to age,
stresses maintaining different age sex, stage and type
groups and sexes
6 Environmental Adaptation and Maintain appropriate animals
stress/heat stress management, reduced having stress tolerance
weight gain, negative Modifications in feeding type and
energy balance, reduced practices
feed intake Proper ventilation
Cooling /showering system
Shade
7 Discomfort, Raising Animal likes to live in Training of animal at appropriate
of animals in natural open environment time to be adapted to confinement
intensified situations
confinement/cages/bo
xes/pens
Pasturing/grazing Lack of behavior Adjustment of animals according to
understanding grazing/browsing behavior
8 Animal manure/waste Pollution, nuisance, Use of manure and sewerage waste
handling sanitation to reduce methane
Bio-gas
Conversion for feeding
9 Joint problem Less space, sitting and Open area, exercise area, trimming,
lameness, lying fatigue Sanitation, floor bedding, cleaning,
inflammation foot drying
problem joint ill
10 Udder management Udder inflammation, Udder massage, teat dipping,
mastitis complete milking, drying therapy
11 Diarrhea Lack of cleaning feeding, Clean feeding and feeding utensils
bad feeding
Soil eating, licking, Deficiencies, bad feeding, Good feeding, frequency of feeding
sucking, cribbing

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 Body cleaning, grooming Regular cleaning, antiseptics,
External Parasites and floor management hiding areas in floor and walls