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Institute for Animal Health, Animal Welfare and Behaviour of Farm Animals (ITTN)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The overall aims of the IAAB are to promote ethical, legal and scientifically-based animal protection, to improve animal-friendly housing systems for food animals and to contribute to the development of a future orientated and modern 'sustainable livestock production'. This concept seeks to integrate the aspects of human and animal welfare in livestock production, ethics, ecology and consumer demands on a sound economical basis.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Abandonment of beak trimming of laying hens - pilot project
- Additional water supply for preening for Muscovy ducks
- Alternative methods - Joint research project: 3R-Schooling for Methodological approaches to Reduce Animal Tests. Subproject 1: Coordination
- Animal welfare during the transport of pigs
- Approach to improve animal health and stable climate in turkey fattening husbandry in Lower Saxony
- Automated behavioural enrichment for poultry – development of an innovative system to improve animal welfare
- Beginning of opting out of the beak trimming in turkeys (cocks)
- Collaborative project: Analysing and improving the relationship between grassland, animal health and animal breeding in beef suckler cows. Subproject: Analyses of beef suckler cows health and the influencing factors
- Collaborative project: Automated animal welfare monitoring in poultry. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Continuous microclimate data acquisition, processing, and transfer in vehicles for the long road transport of cattle and pigs with applicable sensor systems – Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Cross innovation and digitisation in animal-friendly pig farming, taking into account the protection of resources - 'DigiSchwein advise, qualify and promote'. Subproject 5
- Collaborative project: Influence of different farrowing and rearing systems on animal welfare, animal health and economy in pig farming - an interdisciplinary approach. Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Measuring system for an automated early diagnosis of lameness in cattle through analysis of the sound of movement in cattle - subproject 3
- Collaborative project: System for poultry husbandry to reduce the risk of bacteria recontamination during the fattening period, to improve the animal health and to reduce the risk of crosscontamination into the human food chain for bacteria in general and especially for antibiotics-resistant bacteria - subproject 3
- Current use of perches in the broiler breeder management and their suitability for use and animal health (status quo survey)
- Development and testing of an animal and environmentally friendly innovative housing for fattening and breeding rabbits under practical conditions
- Evaluation of various poultry enterprises from the perspective of labor and environmental protection, pollution by airborne dust and microorganisms
- Integration of ethological and functional traits in breeding programs for tomorrow's sow
- Investigation of animal welfare-environment-interaction of dairy cows. Subproject 2
- Occurrence of MRSA in stable air and exhaust air from animal housing - U1
- Optimization of the sampling procedure for the detection of MRSA in livestock (D1 farms, fattening D2)
- Studies on the influence of access to manipulable material on the behavior and herd health of pullets and laying hens in farms
- Studies on the occurrence of cannibalism in non-beak truncated male turkey at different livestock densities
- Studies on the stocking density of broiler
- Testing and evaluation of biological safety of approved air purification systems (BioAbluftR) in livestock
Involved in research projects
- Building a network of experts for animal welfare and animal health
- Immediate measures to avoid longterm pain and suffering of severely ill and injured pigs to ensure killing in a timely manner
- Influence of feeding technic and offering of material for investigatory behaviour on the incidence of feather pecking and cannibalism in not beak trimmed turkeys.
- Testing and evaluation of biological safety of air purification equipment (BioAbluftR) in farm animals
- Testing and evaluation of biological safety of an air cleaning device (BioAbluftR) in farm animals
- Testing and evaluation of biological safety of gas purification equipment (BioAbluftR) in farm animals
Contact
Institute for Animal Health, Animal Welfare and Behaviour of Farm Animals
(ITTN)
Bischofsholer Damm 15 (Gebäude 116)
30173 Hannover
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 0511-856-8952
Fax: +49 0511-856-8998
Email: ittn(@)tiho-hannover.de
