Research Project

Relationships between animal welfare hazards and animal based welfare indicators

Responsible

  • Christine Brenninkmeyer

Projekttext

Major welfare problems in today’s dairy farming are lameness and lesions of the cows’ legs. Two different statistical methods for risk prediction were compared on the basis of an existing data set of 96 dairy farms: Discriminant analysis and decision trees in combination with random forest.

In cooperation with

  • Christoph Winckler, Division of Livestock Sciences, Department of Sustainable Agricultural Systems, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Bericht

Funding

Duration

07/2010 bis 10/2010