Portable collective corrals: raised in groups, calves improve their animal welfare

Although collective breeding systems have an international background, in the central dairy basin of Santa Fe, individual breeding predominates in stakes. Faced with this situation, professionals from the INTA Rafaela Agricultural Experimental Station develop and evaluate portable collective pens, with which they seek to improve the animal welfare of animals, and thus achieve a milk production of greater quantity and quality. They do so with the…