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FBN Research Unit Behavioural Physiology
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Section overview
Description
Three cornerstones of modern animal production are high productivity, disease resistance and quality animal housing. Within this context, research is increasingly showing that animal welfare, health and performance are tightly intertwined. However, there is currently little understanding of farm-animal emotions, especially with regard to ethological, psychological and physiological parameters, which can be used to reliably measure welfare. Therefore, a basic requirement in reaching optimum performance, as well as a high level of animal well-being, is examining mechanisms by which negative or positive emotions influence farm animal health and performance.
Given the importance of housing to the performance and health of farm animals, we are investigating the adaptive range of animals by examining animal-technology interactions, expressions of emotionality, as well as the effects of pre- and postnatal physiological and emotional stimuli on immune and endocrine systems. We aim to extend the body of basic knowledge in this area for developing innovative approaches to animal-friendly, performance-supporting keeping systems and for improving the physiological background for future breeding programs.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- BRUVORI - Developing an instrument system for vocalization of estrus in dairy cows
- BRUVORI - Developing an instrument system for vocalization of estrus in dairy cows
- Call feeding for sows. A feeding system for animal welfare in group housing
- Collaborative project: An innovative call-feeding system for an animal- and production-friendly keeping of group housed sows. – Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Preparation of the commercialisation of call feeding for sows, Subproject 1
- Emotional stress reference sounds of the pig at transmitter and receiver individuals
- Investigation of higher learning performance of animals and environmental effects of cognitive enrichment on behavioral, environmental flexibility and well being
Contact
FBN Research Unit Behavioural Physiology
Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2
D-18196 Dummerstorf
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Germany
Phone: +49 38208 68800
Fax: +49 38208 68802
Email: manteuff(@)fbn-dummerstorf.de
