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3 results for keyword:livestock housing

Growing number of dairy cattle have no access to pasture

The provisional results of the 2012 Agricultural census show that the number of grazing dairy cattle has declined considerably from 90 percent in 2001 to 70 percent in 2011.

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Ammonia emissions from animal housing still too high

Two-thirds of laying hens in the Netherlands were housed in so-called low-emission sheds in 2008. Most meat chickens, porkers, and sows were still housed in facilities where too much ammonia is...

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One in five milk cows kept stabled all year round

Last year – just like in 2006 – more than 300 thousand milk cows were kept stabled during the grazing season.

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