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