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  • Agricultural Systems
  • Sustainable Food Production

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  • Building livestock resilience is crucial for sustainable food production and adapting to challenges.
  • Farmer involvement in developing dairy cattle resilience indicators has been limited.
  • Understanding farmer perspectives on cow resilience is essential for practical application.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore and understand how farmers conceptualize resilience in dairy cows.
  • To identify farmer-identified indicators and behaviors associated with resilient dairy cattle.
  • To inform the development of farmer-centric resilience strategies in dairy farming.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 20 dairy farmers in the UK and Channel Islands.
  • Data analysis using reflexive thematic analysis to identify recurring themes and concepts.
  • Exploration of farmer perceptions on cow health, fertility, productivity, and behavior.

Main Results:

  • Farmers conceptualize resilience as a cow's ability to require minimal individual intervention.
  • Key farmer goals for resilient cows include health, fertility, and stable milk yield.
  • Farmers observed cows enacting resilience through a 'will to live' and 'holding their own' assertively for resources.
  • Resilience was perceived as distributed across multiple systems: herd, housing, feeding, and farmer.

Conclusions:

  • Dairy cow resilience is a complex, dynamic process involving negotiation of individual, social, and environmental resources.
  • Farmer conceptualizations highlight the importance of a cow's motivation, assertiveness, and systemic interactions.
  • A systems approach, integrating farmer insights, is recommended for understanding and enhancing dairy cattle resilience.