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
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1.
BOVINES,
OVINE AND PIGS |
INDOORS
AREA (net
area available to animals) |
OUTDOOR
AREA |
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Live
weight |
m²/head |
m²/head |
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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 |
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Dairy
cows |
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6 |
4,5 |
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Bulls
for breeding |
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10 |
30 |
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Sheep
and goats |
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1,5
sheep or goat 0,35
lamb or kid |
2,5 2,5
with 0,5 per lamb or kid |
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Farrowing
sows with piglets up to 40 days |
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7,5
sow |
2,5 |
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Fattening
pigs |
Up
to 50 Up
to 85 Up
to 100 |
0,8 1,1 1,3 |
0,6 0,8 1 |
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Piglets |
Over
40 days and up to 30 kg |
0,6 |
0,4 |
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Brood
pigs |
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2,5
female 6,0
male |
1,9 8,0 |
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2.POULTRY |
INDOORS AREA (net
area available to animals) |
OUTDOORS
AREA (m²
of area available in rotation/head) |
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No. animals/m² |
cm
perch/animal |
nest |
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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 |
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Fattening
poultry (in
fixed housing) |
10
with a maximum of 21 kg live weight/ m² |
20 (for
guinea fowl only) |
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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 |
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Fattening
poultry in mobile housing |
16
in mobile poultry houses with a maximum of 30 kg live weight/ m² |
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2,5,
provided that the limit of 170 kg of N/ha/year is not exceeded |