1. Introduction –
1.1 Organic agriculture –
1.2 Organic animal husbandry –
2. Development of organic farming –
2.1 The early pioneers –
2.2 Rudolf Steiner and biodynamic farming –
2.3 The 1960's and 70's : agriculture in a new perspective –
2.4 The 1980's and 90's: becoming established –
2.5 The development of organic livestock research–
2.6 Entering the 21st century –
3. Organic livestock standards –
3.1 Scope –
3.2 Structure –
3.3 Animal husbandry –
4. Key considerations in organic animal husbandry –
4.1 Origin of livestock –
4.2 Livestock feed –
4.3 Living conditions –
4.4 Waste management –
4.5 Health care –
4.6 Record keeping/ audit trail –
5. Animal welfare and organic animal husbandry –
5.1 Is animal welfare a concern for organic farming – or should it be? –
5.2 Animal welfare concerns are important in practice –
6. Advantages and limitations of organic animal husbandry –
6.1 Some of the reported benefits of organic animal husbandry –
6.2 Limitations of organic animal husbandry –
7. Problems in development of organic animal husbandry –
7.1 Lack of knowledge –
7.2 Small farms –
7.3 Livestock feeding –
7.4 Sanitary regulations –
7.5 Traceability –
7.6 Existence of diseases –
7.7 Lack of training and certification facilities –
8. Opportunities for India –
Conclusion.

"Animal husbandry is an important financial pillar of organically producing farms, usually they earn more than 50% of their turnover with animal husbandry. The guidelines for organic farming regulate that Animal Husbandry is based on own fodder production. Thus excrements of organically reared animals are not considered as environmentally harmful waste material but a valuable fertilizer, organic animal husbandry promote use of clean and healthy products from our animals for our won health, protects the environment, brings down the cost of production and is the system to watch for now and future on the livestock productions, organic farming is based on the ideas of sustainability, environmentally friendly and nature oriented farming and considerations of animal welfare. Their importance few organic and significance of animal welfare in the modern society are associate with the demand for organic products, the organic animal husbandry system has emerged only recently which is still evolving. The organic animal husbandry is for more sophisticated and knowledge intensive systems of animal production meant to safeguard but also explored opportunities for Indias this regard."