Abstract:

The demand for animals food is increasing with the world population nowadays. To meet this increased demand, researchers continue to increase the yield of animals. These yields obtained from animals emerge with the effect of both genetic and environmental factors. When any of these two factors is missing, we cannot obtain the desired level of yield from the animals. Ensuring suitable environmental conditions in dairy cow farming, which has an important share for the animal food production sector, helps animals to reflect their genetic potential in the phenotype at the maximum level. This study was prepared to reveal some research examining and evaluating the effect of barn comfort and animal behavior-yield relationship on the economic sustainability of the free-stall dairy cattle farms. Comfort measurements applied in shelters help us to determine the comfort level and the elements that disturb the comfort in the shelters. Thus, we can increase the comfort level by reconsidering the elements that disturb the comfort and making it suitable for animals. Summary; ıt can be said that as the improvement of comfort, animal welfare increases, and the profitability of the enterprises increases with the increase in productivity in cows.

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