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Educational and experimental center for animal breeding and husbandry (LVAT)
Institution
Section overview
Activities
- Research
- Educational Establishment
Coordinated projects
- Assessment of body condition using BCS in beef cattle to use the results for the operational management taking into account the food supply and the supply situation of grassland with minerals and trace elements
- Collaborative project: Artificial intelligence for measuring respiration in dairy cows - subproject C
- Evaluation tool for system-specific risk factors on dairy farms with special emphasis on productivity and animal health (Dairy Cattle Value Navigator)
- Examination of the balance sheet values according to § 4 (3) fertilizer ordinance for suckler cows and calves until weaning in year-round outdoor husbandry
Involved in research projects
- Comparison of the influence of agricultural subsidy before and after the CAP reform on the operating incomes of sheep farmers specialised on landscape conservation
- Development of management measures to deal with tail biting in pigs after abandoning docking
- Investigations on the utilisability and functionality of a sensor system prototype for an early detection of udder infections in automatic and conventional milking systems used in practice
- Preventive diagnostics for dairy cows through a multiparameter rumen sensor monitoring
- Studies on possibilities of low-effort maintenance of barren land regarding animal health, animal performance and operating income
- Subproject 4: Determining the influence of plant species and substrate quality on silage and biogas yield
- Tests on reduced boar taint at the offspring of breeds for female parents
Contact
Educational and experimental center for animal breeding and husbandry
(LVAT)
Neue Chaussee 6
14550 Groß Kreutz
Brandenburg
Germany
Phone: +49 033207-32252
Fax: +49 033207-30024
Email: info(@)lvatgrosskreutz.de