Almost 70 dairy farmers from 12 different nations attended out big conference on Calf with Cow Dairy. Some already kept their calves with the cows, some not yet but were considering the switch, and others had started but still had questions. The purpose of the conference was to help farmers learn from each other in order to make this ethical method of dairy production easier to adopt, and to give acknowledgement to the farmers that choose this path.
Keeping the calves with their mothers, instead of separating them at birth and removing them from the dairy farm, quickly solves many welfare problems, No more tiny pens or hutches for newborns raised in isolation, no more need to put fragile and wobbly calves with underdeveloped immune systems on big trucks and transported under stressful conditions, no more putting tiny calves through livestock sale barns and auctions, no more white veal production.
Eyes on Animals strongly supports this alternative growing movement in the dairy industry and wants to help dairy farmers choosing this path of production so that the welfare of cows and calves can be improved on. Read all about this conference, watch videos about it and listen to podcasts with some of the farmers in our Calf with the Cow Conference Newsletter HERE.
