Avaliação do bem-estar de bovinos de leite na microrregião de Erechim-RS: princípios de boa saúde e comportamento apropriado

Abstract

Focusing on animal welfare, this study aimed to evaluate and rank dairy farms welfare of Erechim-RS micro region, in order to point out the reality and possible solutions applicable the encountered problems. To evaluate the animal welfare principle good health and appropriate behavior, were used criteria described to this principle in the Protocol Welfare Quality (2009) adapted by Garcia (2013) with some modifications. Therefore, 10 farms of milk producers by grazing base, in the micro region cited above, were visited and evaluated, from August 2014 to February 2015 and produced many results. These results when submitted to Cluster analysis formed three groups. The first is compound by properties 9, 10, 7 and 3; the second is compound by properties 2 and 4; and the third consists of the properties 1, 6, 5 and 8. On being submitted to descriptive analysis, regular welfare was assumed, given the fact that in relation to good health principle, only for absence of disease indicator requires interventions, different for each group. In relation to appropriate behavior principle requires interventions in the human-animal relationship indicator, given the fact that all groups had dodged percentage of animals greater than 60%.