Association of Animal Health Indicators with Welfare Status in Frieswal Cattle at Organized Dairy Herd

The farm level welfare assessment can be used as an advisory tool by farmers, as source of information for management and as a component of quality assurance schemes for consumers. People have high interests in farming and the associated animal welfare standards due to its impact on health and productions of animals and subsequent good impact upon public health. More and more consumers are becoming aware of dairy welfare upon public health, food security and environmental protection. Though this recent interest and concerns about animal welfare are growing day by day, however, the assessment of animal well-being is a complex matter (Rushen et al., 2011). A good welfare is such management where there is no stress which plays an important part in welfare research (Broom et al., 2001). Different methods of on farm monitoring of animal International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 10 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com