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Motion pens for farrowing sows in agricultural production systems
Project
Project code: EIP-Agri-BR-2016-LPT01
Contract period: 01.01.2016
- 31.12.2018
Budget: 431,073 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: farming practice/activity, animal husbandry
Content of the project is the necessity to develop farming systems for farrowing sows in the sense of greater space and offering movement freedom for reasons of animal welfare combined with an increasing efficiency by decreasing piglet mortality, also and especially because of the expected expansion of legal requirements. There are practically suitable barns and bays to be worked out as reconstruction proposals for larger, conventional working farms. These proposals will be presented by means of a pilot plant to the broad farming practice. Further sub-goals are i. e. the improvement of animal welfare in combination with similar developing performance of the animals, the preservation of the economy (including labor economics) with changed farming procedures, the ensuring work safety for the employees and to improve the social acceptance for conventional livestock farming.
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal Husbandry
