ANNEXURE IV: 

MINIMUM SURFACE AREAS INDOORS AND OUTDOORS AND OTHER CHARACTERISTICS OF HOUSING IN THE DIFFERENT SPECIES AND TYPES OF PRODUCTION

  1. BOVINES, OVINES AND PIGS

     

    INDOOR 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/goat
    0,35 lamb/kid

    2,5
    2,5 with 0,5 per lamb/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

    INDOOR AREA
    (net area available to animals)

    OUTDOOR
    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