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FLI - Institute for Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry (FLI - ITT)
Institution
Section overview
Description
Starting from the purposes of the institute of animal welfare and animal husbandry there are 4 different scientific working domains. These domains are well coordinated with each other. The fields are necessarily basic as well as application orientated.
The 4 working domains are belaboured in 3 departments
- Husbandry and Behavior
- Molecularbiology
- Physiology
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute - Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (FLI)
Coordinated projects
- Abandonment of docking pig tails
- Area requirements for fattening bulls
- Assessment of stress reactions of slaughter pigs during their access to electrical stunning
- Beef Innovation Network Europe - Backing for Europe’s beef cattle farmers
- Collaborative project: (German) consortial project to prevent tail docking in pigs - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: An innovative call-feeding system for an animal- and production-friendly keeping of group housed sows. – Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Animal Welfare Label – Development of a market-conform animal welfare program in the pork chain – Subproject 3
- 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 1
- Collaborative project: Definition, recording and optimization of parameters for electrical stunning of slaughter pigs under aspects of animal welfare and meat quality - subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Development and validation of a method for the determination of glucocorticoids in hair and feathers as a biological indicator for retrospective non-invasive monitoring of animal welfare in different livestock species. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Development of a cold plasma system to treat the red bird mite (Dermanyssus gallinae) in laying hen farming. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Further developments on small group systems ('Kleingruppenhaltung”) for laying hens – Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Integration of broiler and egg production by using a dual-purpose genotype: ways to improve animal welfare - subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Making pig husbandry fit for an Animal Welfare Label: Integrated development of housing systems and process technology for the transfer of conventional housings. Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: National Animal Welfare Monitoring - subproject 6
- Collaborative project: On-farm self-monitoring of animal welfare: feasibility, setting of an assessment framework and technical electronic implementation. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Optimization of light management in husbandry of fattening turkeys. Subproject 3
- Collaborative project: Stunning of large fish by percussion or captive bolt: development of operating procedures and evaluation of animal welfare aspects - subproject B
- Cooperation with IFIP-project “Démarche d’audit en élevage sur les facteurs de risque du cannibalisme” - Audit approach in breeding on the risk factors of cannibalism
- Cow-Toilet - Clever cattle to resolve “Klima Killer” conundrum
- Current status survey of organic turkey with regard to the abandonment of beak trimming
- Demonstration project 'Welfare-friendly turkey production in an enriched environment'
- Development and implementation of a tail biting risk assessment tool on commercial pig farms
- Development of a learning test for adult laying hens
- Development of EU wide animal transport certification system and renovation of control posts in the European Union
- Development of management recommendations for small group housing systems for laying hens under practical conditions in comparison with aviaries
- Effect of daylight on keel bone health of laying hens
- Effect of light on the prevalence of feather pecking and cannibalism in non-beaktrimmed turkeys
- Effects of early experience as pullets on the nest height preferences of adult laying hens
- Effects of selection for high and low locomotor activity in the domestic fowl
- Effects of slatted floor with rubber mats combined with different abrasive areas (PEDIKURA) on claw health and integument injuries of fattening bulls
- Examination of a new nipple for milk feeding of rearing calves
- Experiment to protect grass in runs of laying hens
- Farm specific strategies to reduce environmental impact by improving health, welfare and nutrition of organic pigs
- Gene expression in layer lines selected on feather pecking
- Heart rate variability in hens selected on feather pecking behaviour
- Influence of different housing systems on the limbic systems and the behaviour of laying hens
- Influence of different kinds of litter on animal’s health (foot pad dermatitis), performance and behaviour of male broilers
- Influence of different kinds of litter on health and behaviour of animals and emissions in the fattening of female turkeys
- Influence of feeding technic and offering of material for investigatory behaviour on the incidence of feather pecking and cannibalism in not beak trimmed turkeys.
- Influence of running on walking ability, bone density, performance as well as carcass and meat quality by male turkeys
- Intelligent light systems
- Investigation of bone health of laying hens (LSL) during rearing with and without access to daylight
- Investigations for the development of a small aviary for laying hens
- Investigations of cortisol with and without ACTH challenge in different body secretions and blood of dairy cows
- Investigations of the height of perches for laying hens
- Investigations on resting and climbing platforms for dairy goats
- Investigations on the relationship between cognitive abilities and feather pecking behaviour in laying hens
- Learning dependent gene expression of NCAM180 in the hippocampus of laying hens kept under different housing systems
- Material to keep turkeys occupied and phytogenic additives
- Measure to combat red mite (Dermanyssis gallinae) in organic farming
- NatBio – „Potenzialanalyse zur Bereitstellung natürlicher Biomasse“ How do the lower food levels by a 100% organic feeding behavior and the common approach of the meat turkey origins?
- Pilot project on best practices in animal transport
- Polymorphisms in the serotonin transporter gene and effects on behavior and disorders in fowl
- Reducing tail biting in finisher pigs: Distribution of a management tool through training courses and an intervention study
- Refraining from tail docking: Solutions from farms for farms
- Renovation and promoting high quality control posts in the European Union
- Serotonin and learning in chickens
- Social impact on feather pecking in chickens selected for high and low prevalence for FP
- Studies on non-aversive gas stunning methods for slaughter pigs
- Studies on the available space for pigs during transport of different duration
- Studies on the loading height during breeding heifers transport
- Studies on the use of non-penetrating captive bolt method for humane stunning of non-viable piglets on farm level
- Study on the humane gas killing of poultry during a disease outbreak
- Study on the humane stunning and killing of non-viable piglets with a nitrogen-filled, highly expansive foam on farm level
- Study on the humane stunning of slaughter pigs with a nitrogen-filled, highly expansive foam under aspects of animal welfare and meat quality (Proof of Concept)
- Study on the improvement of pigs’ welfare during gas stunning in conventional paternoster and dip-lift systems by using alternative gases and gas mixtures
- Sustainable pig production systems
- Synthesis of melatonine in laying hens
- Tail biting intervention programme for weaner piglets
- Testing of different materials and feeding experiments in turkeys hens and turkey cocks with regard to the abandonment of beak trimming
- The serotonin transporter gene in the laying hen and its relation to feather pecking
- Use of BioPlus 2B (E1700) in combination with Maduramicin-Ammonium-Alpha (E770) in the fattening of female turkeys: Influence on performance parameter and health of footpad (Pododermatitis)
- Validation of a minimum-invasive blood-sampling technique for measuring catecholamines
Involved in research projects
- CorePig - Prevention of selected diseases and parasites in organic pig herds – by means of a HACCP based management and surveillance programme
- Economic evaluation of keeping lay hens in small groups
- Elucidation of behavioral and genetic factors of feather pecking
- Investigations on non-aversive gas anesthesia procedures for slaughter pigs
- Project Optical-spectroscopic in-ovo sex determination of the chicken egg for practical use in the hatchery
Contact
FLI - Institute for Animal Welfare and Animal Husbandry
(FLI - ITT)
Dörnbergstraße 25 / 27
29223 Celle
Lower Saxony
Germany
Phone: +49 5141 3846-101
Fax: +49 5141 3846-117
Email: Lars.Schrader(@)fli.bund.de