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Collaborative project: Development of a cold plasma system to treat the red bird mite (Dermanyssus gallinae) in laying hen farming. Subproject 3 (Plasmanyssus)

Project

Food and consumer protection

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Food and consumer protection


Project code: 28RZ3086
Contract period: 23.01.2020 - 31.01.2023
Budget: 245,497 Euro
Purpose of research: Experimental development
Keywords: animal health, animal welfare, parasitology, poultry, husbandry techniques, hygiene, animal husbandry, prevention

Within the planned project, a plasma-assisted method for treating the red bird mite (Dermanyssus gallinae) will be designed, developed and tested under practical conditions for its possible applications. The project aims to reduce the use of biocides in the control of the red bird mite or to make it avoidable. It can thus make a significant contribution to improving animal health and welfare and to reducing the use of antiparasitic agents and medicines or antibiotics in poultry farming. By using the planned concepts remotely from the host, direct contact of the hens with plasma components is impossible. The process works residue-free according to biological-physical principles, thus a cold plasma system can be used in the occupied barn and why waiting times for edible tissue and animal products are not necessary. In principle, the project has a direct focus on a marketable application in the practice of conventionally or ecologically operated rearing of young and laying hens. The involvement of an experienced partner established in the targeted business area already in the initial phase of the technical development work will ensure that a later transfer into practical application procedures can be guaranteed.The total estimated duration of the planned project is 3 years. The necessary research and development tasks will be carried out within the project period. These are subdivided into individual work packages, which are briefly described below. 1) Design and production phase of possible DBD (dielectric barrier discharge) sources (HAWK, FLI-ITT) 2) Mechanism clarification of the main killing effects (HAWK, FLI-ITT) 3) Practical susceptibility tests of concept sources (HAWK, FLI-ITT) 4) Conception and implementation of a suitable supplier concept (HAWK, FLI-ITT) 5) Implementation of the preferred concept into a functional model (HAWK, FLI-ITT, MIK) 6) Development of a test and counting method (FLI-ITT, HAWK) 7) Tests of plasma source concepts under real condition

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BMEL Frameworkprogramme 2008

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