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Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Institute provides its functions in teaching and research in the fields of animal genetics and animal husbandry and small livestock farming. The courses are in the framework of lectures, seminars and exercises. For the courses of study agricultural science, agricultural economics and nutritional science are basic lectures on animal husbandry, animal husbandry and hygiene offered, while in the main study in the field of animal production are the core subjects animal husbandry, animal breeding and animal genetics, molecular genetics, including a special focus.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Analysis of genetic-statistical models for Genomic Selection and QTL-Mapping
- AniFai - a tool for assessing animal welfare using multi criteria analysis
- Assessment of positive emotions in pigs
- Collaborative project: (German) consortial project to prevent tail docking in pigs - subproject 7
- Collaborative project: A monitoring tool for animal welfare in dairy cows. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Animal Welfare Label – Development of a market-conform animal welfare program in the pork chain – Subproject 4
- Collaborative project: Developing an sustanaible breeding project in German sheep breed with simultaneous use of rams. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Development and evaluation of an automatic optical sensor system for monitoring the body condition of dairy cows – Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Development of an automatic measuring method by spectrometry technique for the detection of abnormal taste of boar meat - subproject 5
- Collaborative project: Digital dairy barn of the future - Combining innovative technologies for automated recording of animal behavior with performance, fertility and health data collection to optimize animal welfare and health considering both, animal husbandry and breeding - subproject A
- Collaborative project: Field study on vaccination against boar taint. Scientific monitoring of the 100,000 boar project to evaluate immunocastration as an alternative to non-anaesthetic piglet castration
- Collaborative project: FUGATO-plus - FUGATO + brain - the development of an expert system to transfer the results of the functional genome research in livestock breeding programs, University of Kiel Project: Expansion of the selection index method and optimum contribution selection with markers
- Collaborative project: FUGATO-plus - GENE-FL - Genetic Foundations foundation of stability for beef, pork, horse and sheep; Subproject Kiel: elucidation of the genetic basis for the occurrence of Osteochondrosis / Osteochondrosis dissecans in German warmblood horses
- Collaborative project: FUGATO-plus - Genetic dialogue - The importance epistatischer mechanisms in the characteristic expression in cattle and swine; subproject Kiel University
- Collaborative project: FUGATO-plus - GenoTrack - high-throughput SNP typing for genomic selection in cattle, association studies and population genetic analysis of the bovine genome; Subproject University of Kiel
- Collaborative project: FUGATO-plus - MeGA-M - Metabolomische and genomic analysis of milk for healthy dairy cows; project Kiel University
- 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 3
- Collaborative project: Incidence and impact of potentially disease associated viral DNA in cattle - subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Influence of different farrowing and rearing systems on animal welfare, animal health and economy in pig farming - an interdisciplinary approach. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Innovative methods of trait recording in dairy cattle as a basis of the modern breeding program of the Nord-Ost-Genetic – Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Innovative methods to improve calf health and life effectiveness - development of a management tool and elaboration of the new breeding characteristic "calf vitality" for genomic selection in the Holstein Friesian breed - subproject A
- Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 7
- Collaborative project: Reduction of methane and nitrogen emissions in milk production by innovative control and management of feeding - subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Systematic optimization of fish production in recirculating aquaculture systems - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: The development of innovative concepts for pig pens that will be socially acceptable also in the future based on a scientifically supported discourse of agribusiness, civil society and scientific actors. Subproject 2
- Development of a multidimensional estimation system for animal justice with the help of the Multi-Criteria-Analyses (MCA)
- Development of a multivariate decision model for the fertility and health monitoring in pig farming
- Development of a production process for the group housing of lactating sows
- Development of modified “genomic selection” modells
- Development of preventive measures designed to improve health and longevity in sheep on organic farms
- Development of preventive measures for the promotion of health and longevity in sheep on organic farms
- Development of preventive measures for the promotion of health and longevity in sheep on organic farms- Further development of management-tool
- Development of test patterns and product prototypes with defined bioactive ingredients
- Early indicators of the onset of tail-biting in pigs
- Elucidating the aetiology of hereditary diseases in the pig by integrating structural and functional genomics
- Enhancement of fatty acid synthesis by isoflavones in rainbow trout
- FUGATO-plus - Gemma - Structural and functional analysis of genetic variation of the MMA syndrome
- Functional analysis of Genetic Mechanisms determining Variability of Protective Ability in the Mammary Gland of Cattle; Projects 1, 7, 8: Mastitis associated transciptoanalysis, QTL mapping
- Need for sharp phenotypes in QTL detection for calving traits in German dairy cattle
- Optimization of dairy products in terms of their content of functional substances
- Quantification of bovine methane emission using the fecal biomarker archaeol (MethanA)
- Static and dynamic network analysis for the modeling of contact structures in the spread of infectious diseases
- Stress resistance and -adaptation of trout from intensive and extensive management under defined management conditions
- Sustainable, N-efficient and GMO-free feeding on dairy farms in Schleswig-Holstein
- SYNBREED R3: Genetic and phenotypic characterization of a highly informative sample of German Simmental cattle
- The meta-transcriptome of the rainbow trout gut microbiome in relation to stress and diet
- Utilization of potato protein in organic rainbow trout nutrition
Work package leader of collaborative projects
- Animal breeding on feed intake and metabolic processes
- Co-operative project 5 – Implementation of new phenotypes
- geMMA - Structural and functional analysis of genetic variation of the MMA syndrome
- GenoTrack - high-throughput SNP typing for the genomic selection in cattle, association population genetic studies and analyses of the bovine genome
Involved in research projects
- Bioindicators for the evaluation of fish farming, health and product quality in different aquaculture systems
- Development of new Biofunctionalities at all stages of the process chain
- Fish disease, immuno competence and sustainable nutrition in aquaculture. Subproject: fish diseases
- Fish disease, immuno competence and sustainable nutrition in aquaculture. Subproject: Importance of probiotic bacteria and immune competence for the rearing of larval fish
- Fish disease, immuno competence and sustainable nutrition in aquaculture. Subproject: optimization of the phytoplankton - zooplankton - fish larvae food chain for rearing of larval fish
- Microbiological quality of an ad libitum milk for calves: Development of bacterial count as a function of storage time, storage temperature and acidification
- SYNBREED A2: Genomic Selection
- SYNBREED A3: Genomic Performance Prediction
Contact
Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry
Olshausenstraße 40
24098 Kiel
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany
Phone: +49-431-8802584
Fax: +49-431-8802588