This chapter discusses the animal welfare requirements for organic farms; how to select genetic lines of animals that are suitable for organic farming; grazing more than one species on a pasture; understand the differences between EU, US and Canadian organic programmes and the importance of using...

This chapter describes the plant- and animal-based ingredients and byproducts that may be used for the formulation of organic poultry diets, based on the list from New Zealand and the European Union.

Legislative and assurance scheme requirements for standard and alternative indoor and outdoor broiler and turkey production systems are described. Generally, health and welfare are protected to various extents by a series of input requirements, largely related to stocking density, light,...

This chapter discusses the different approved ingredients for organic feeding of pigs and their nutritional, as well as antinutritional, features. These ingredients include cereal grains (barley, buckwheat, maize, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, spelt, triticale and wheat), oilseeds (canola, cottonseed,...