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LfL - Institute for Animal Nutrition and Feed Management (ITE)
Institution
Section overview
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Adding fibre-rich feeding in piglets rearing to minimize the effects of tail-biting
- Analysing the use of straw/ nutritive feed doses in oxen growing out of suckler cow husbandry
- Animal welfare-friendly pig feeding 'ProPig'
- Bavarian food hygiene in silage and validation of a roadmap for controlling the silo
- Boar fattening with inulin in liquid feeding
- Change to short-grass pasture in Kringell
- Collaborative project: Improvement of dairy farming by breeding strategies for feed intake, metabolism, and environmental sustainability under conditions of optimized feeding intensity and utilization of metabolism indicators and sensors in herd management - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Utilization of the data from the project optiKuh for improvement of dairy farming by an updated modelling of feed intake and use of feed efficiency and robustness in animal breeding and management of animal health. Subproject 1
- Comparison of sialge agentsl-verification of the Zierenberg method
- Efficient feeding regimes and nutrient cycling in forage Baubetriebe
- Feeding concepts against cannibalism - Increased fiber content in the diet and increased water flow to the nipple drinking systems
- Feeding of pigs - contributions to animal health and animal welfare (experiments, optimization of consulting)
- For fiber supply of the pregnant and lactating breeding sow
- Further development of advisory documents for organically managed pig farms
- Health and performance of dairy cows in ecological farming interdisciplinary point of view - an (intervention) study on metabolic disorders and diseases in the udder due to inclusion of forage production, feeding management and husbandry
- Implementation of a company-wide view on nutrient-adapted feeding in Bavarian pig farms via digitally prepared data in a web-based information center
- Implementation of an optimized pasture management and estimation of the feed yield after a separation of forest and pasture
- Influence of manure application techniques on the microbial status of feed
- Influence of manureapplication techniqueson the microbial status offeed
- Investigations into the optimisation of nutrient balances on forage farms
- Investigations to increase the diversification of maize production for substrate production and fodder production by the mixed cultivation of maize with flowering plants and legumes. Subproject: Investigation of the silage properties of corn pole beans mixtures
- Measurement of usable protein in grass products
- Measuring the methane emissions of dairy cows with the system GreenFeed
- Non-food for feed: By-products of food handling and processing in pig and poultry nutrition to reduce food competition between humans and livestock while maintaining productivity and environmentally friendly production
- Pilotproject: further transfer of knowledge in the agricultural division:
- Prediction of silage ingredients II
- Prevention of rumen acidosis by securing the supply of structured cattle feed
- Qualitative and quantitative optimization of protein or amino acid supply in pig feeding
- Reduction of protein overhangs in cattle feeding by optimized ration design with use of rumen-protected amino acids
- Rye in pig feeding
- Silage characteristics and silage quality of organic and conventional provenance
- Studies on silage losses in grass silage in round bales as a function of storage and silage agent use
- Studies on yields, qualities and ensilability of TEFF grass in catch crop cultivation compared to arable grass
- Survey on organic farms in pigs to determine the feed ingredients and the potential ratio designs, creating a feeding primer for consultants, students, farmers
- The use of monolaurin in piglet rearing
- Use of guanidino acetic acid with pigs
Coordinated collaborative projects
Work package leader of collaborative projects
Involved in research projects
- Bavarian Wheat for Bread Making and Feeding under the Restrictions of the Fertilizer Ordinance 2020
- Calves of organic dairy farming in Bavaria - a status quo analysis and market potentials of cow-based calf rearing and organic veal fattening
- Field grazing with sheep
- Further development of advisory documents for organically managed pig farms
- Genomic management Tools to Optimize Resilience and Efficiency in European cattle farming
- Improving the protein usage in pig farming by optimizing the amino acid structure of barley by a breeding approach
- Management of pasture parasites - Web-based decision trees: Forward planning of pasture management in ruminants to reduce exposure with gastrointestinal worms and to reduce use of veterinary drugs
- Operator Guide for optimum plant operation (Biogas)
- Pasture Innovations Network Sheep Goat
- Residues of contaminants in slurries (slurry monitoring)
- Seed mixtures native to the area used for compensation areas with sheep grazing
Contact
LfL - Institute for Animal Nutrition and Feed Management
(ITE)
Prof.-Dürrwaechter-Platz 3
85586 Poing
Bavaria
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)8161 8640-7401
Fax: +49 (0)8161 8640-5555
Email: Tierernaehrung(@)LfL.bayern.de