Organic husbandry

Organic husbandry

Statutory basis: EC - regulation on organic products 834 from 2007 including the implementation rules 889 from 2008, as well as the requirements of the associations. For non-mentioned category groups the regulations of the German Animal-Welfare Act and the German Federal Act for Animal-Welfare Husbandry of Productive Livestock are in effect in Germany.


 

Compared to free-range husbandry, the organic chicken husbandry is characterized as well by organic produced feed, the donation of roughage, as lower stocking densities in the barn and on the green.

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