Organic Cow Comfort is an advisory tool in animal welfare, developed to secure animal welfare on organic dairy farms in Norway. The farm advisory tool consists of
• A farm visit by a veterinarian and a production advisor both specialized in animal welfare and organic farming
• An evaluation of herd health and welfare through welfare assessment
• Advice on disease prevention and improve-ment of animal welfare
• Follow up visit by an advisor looking at im-plementation of new initiatives
• Counselling meetings with groups of farmer
The evaluation of herd health and welfare is done with the help of checklists where animal based pa-rameters, farm management and operating systems, and human-animal relationship are recorded. A report is prepared after every farm visit with a health and welfare plan where specific measures for improve-ment of animal welfare are outlined
