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Development and testing of an animal and environmentally friendly innovative housing for fattening and breeding rabbits under practical conditions (Rawecoh-Le)
Project
Project code: ML-Referat 304/EIP-Agri-Nr.17
Contract period: 18.05.2016
- 15.08.2019
Budget: 580,238 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: animal husbandry
The aim of this project is to develop an innovative housing system for conventionally kept fattening rabbits, which includes the implementation of all requirements of the 5th amendment of the Tierschutz-Nutztierhaltungsverordnung (TierSchNutztV) for commercial husbandry of fattening rabbits in Germany. A housing system will be created, which improves animal welfare and also reduces the outgoing environmental pollution. Within this project the housing system will be planned, a prototype will be constructed and afterwards installed on a farm. Subsequently, the new system will be tested under practical conditions, investigated scientifically and further developed. Thus, an animal-friendly system will be created that allows rabbits to carry out their natural behaviours, helps to maintain a good health status with minimal use of medication and keeps the outgoing emissions at a low level. The results of this project should serve as a basis for future housing systems for rabbits.
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal Husbandry
- Animal health
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute for Animal Health, Animal Welfare and Behaviour of Farm Animals (ITTN)
