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Department of Animal Husbandry and Nutztierethologie
Institution
Section overview
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Applying a management tool to improve the well-being and health of laying hens
- Boar fattening: Development of a concept for the production, slaughter and marketing of ecologically produced boars throughout the entire production chain
- Collaborative project: Automated animal welfare monitoring in poultry. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: On-farm self-monitoring of animal welfare: feasibility, setting of an assessment framework and technical electronic implementation. Subproject 3
- Develop minimum requirements for the rearing of young hens in relation to the minimization of feather pecking and cannibalism in the soil and free-range laying hens on the basis of an epidemiological investigation
- Development of management recommendations for small group housing systems for laying hens under practical conditions in comparison with aviaries
- Economic analysis of a management tool to improve the health of laying hens on organic farms
- Improving animal health and welfare in organic cattle milk production through breeding and management
- Investigation on the suitability of alternative turkey strains for an organic husbandry system
- On methods and methodology of research into the welfare of livestock
- Project for the development of a 'Coordinated European Animal Welfare Network'
- Promoting good health and welfare in European organic laying hens
- Promoting young stock and cow health and welfare by natural feeding systems
- Suitability of different breeds for organic broilers - Field testing
Involved in research projects
Contact
Department of Animal Husbandry and Nutztierethologie
Nordbahnhofstr. 1a
37213 Witzenhausen
Hesse
Germany
Phone: 05542/981641
Fax: 05542/981646
Email: fnt(@)wiz.uni-kassel.de
