New Draft Regulations on Organic Production (October 2001)

ANNEXURE IV:  Minimum surface areas indoors and outdoors and other characteristics of housing in the different species and types of production 

1. BOVINES, OVINE AND PIGS

INDOORS AREA

(net area available to animals)

OUTDOOR AREA (exercise area, excluding  pasturage)

 

Live weight minimum (kg)

 m²/head

m²/head

Breeding and fattening bovine and equidae

Up to 100

Up to 200

Up to 350

Over to 350

1,5

2,5

4,0

5 with a minimum of 1 m²/100 kg

1,1

1,9

3

3,7 with a minimum of 0,75 m²/100 kg

Dairy cows

6

4,5

Bulls for breeding

 

10

30 

Sheep and goats

 

1,5 sheep or goat

0,35 lamb or kid

2,5

2,5 with 0,5 per lamb or kid

Farrowing sows with piglets up to 40 days 

 

7,5 sow

2,5

Fattening pigs

Up to 50

Up to 85

Up to 100

0,8

1,1

1,3

0,6

0,8

1

Piglets

Over 40 days and up to 30 kg

0,6

0,4

Brood pigs

 

2,5 female

6,0 male

1,9

8,0

 

2.POULTRY

INDOORS AREA

(net area available to animals)

OUTDOORS AREA

(m² of area available in rotation/head)

No. animals/m²

cm perch/animal

nest

Laying hens

6

18

8 laying hens per nest or in case of common nest 120 cm²/bird

4, provided that the limit of 170 kg of N/ha/year is not exceeded 

Fattening poultry

(in fixed housing)

10 with a maximum of 21 kg live weight/ m²

20

(for guinea fowl only)

 

4 broilers and guinea fowl

4,5 ducks

10 turkey

15 geese

In all the species mentioned above, the limit of 170 kg of N/ha/year must not be exceeded

Fattening poultry in mobile housing

16 in mobile poultry houses with a maximum of 30 kg live weight/ m²

 

 

2,5, provided that the limit of 170 kg of N/ha/year is not exceeded