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1 Animal in Balance Factfinding on housing innovations

2 Hendrik Jan van Dooren (ASG) Bert Ipema (A&F) Oene de Jong (ASG) Jasper van Ruth (A&F) Wim Houwers (A&F) Gerben Doornewaard (LEI)

3 Content 1 General introduction 1.1 Body dimensions 1.2 Welfare 1.3 Environmental factors 2 Housing 2.1 Lying areas 2.2 Walking areas 2.3 Feeding areas 2.4 Milking systems 3 Building 3.1 Design 3.2 Superstructure 3.3 Sidewalls 3.4 Ventilation 4 Herd management 4.1 Animal Husbandry 4.2 Health and fertility 4.3 Production and feeding 5 Farm Management 5.1 Management information systems 5.2 Quality control system 5.3 Chain management aspects

4 1 General Introduction 1.1 Body dimensions 1.2 Welfare 1.3 Environmental factors

5 1.1 Body dimensions Influences of breed on space requirements for lying, walking and eating Relation between body dimensions and body mass Body dimensions of cows H = shoulder height L = diagonal body length W = chest width

6 1.2 Welfare Aspects: behaviour health resting eating & drinking locomotion group size hygiene Natural lying positions

7 1.3 Environmental factors Aspects Air quality and quantity (ventilation) Light Skills of the farmer

8 2 Housing 2.1 Lying areas 2.2 Walking areas 2.3 Eating areas 2.4 Milking systems

9 2.1 Lying areas - Cubicles Purpose: Hygienic lying areas Problem: Natural movement of laying down and getting up is impeded From past..

10 2.1 Lying areas Cubicle dividers (1) to present...

11 2.1 Lying areas Cubicle dividers (2) verder onderverdelen en voorbeelden and future.

12 2.1 Lying areas Cubicle bedding material (1) Cubicle bedding: Soft and elastic Types: Soft rubber mat Mattress filled with rubber Matress filled with foam Matress filled with water (waterbed) Bedding of straw Ligbed of sand

13 2.1 Lying areas deep litter Sand and straw

14 2.1 Lying areas automatic straw distributor

15 2.2 Walking areas Deep litter (see 2.1) Solid floors - less ammonia emission - slippery Slatted floors

16 2.2 Walking areas solid floors with profile

17 2.2 Walking areas solid asphalt floors Asphalt gives grip and less clawproblems Solid rubber coated floor: better claw health

18 2.2 Walking areas solid floors with grooved Grooved floor Solid floor with openings for removal of urine

19 2.2 Walking areas slatted floors Slatted floors with rubber

20 2.2 Walking areas Manure removal

21 2.3 Eating areas Group feeding - feeding racks - automatic feeding Individual feeding - Roughage: fixed feeding time per cow - Roughage: fixed feeding place per cow - Roughage/Concentrate: portion on demand

22 2.3 Eating areas Group feeding with feeding rack Self locking or minimal construction

23 2.3 Eating areas - Automatic roughage feeding to groups

24 2.3 Eating areas - Individual roughage feeding (fixed time) Self locking and unlocking feeding rack

25 2.3 Eating areas Individual roughage (fixed place)

26 2.3 Eating areas Individual on demand concentrate feeding

27 2.3 Eating areas - Individual on demand roughage feeding

28 2.4 Milking systems Developments: - Decreasing labour demand - Automatic milking - High capacity milking parlours - Adaptations to individual animal - Pulsation, vacuum, cluster removal - Milk flow measurement per quarter

29 2.4 Milking systems Automatic milking Astronaut Merlin VMS Galaxy Zenith

30 2.4 Milking systems High capacity milking parlours

31 2.4 Milking systems Adaptations to individual animal Robot delaval

32 2.4 Milking systems Future automation in milking parlours Flexible robotarm

33 3 Building 3.1 Design 3.2 Superstructure 3.3 Sidewalls 3.4 Ventilation

34 3.1 Design

35 3.2 Superstructure Greenhouse structures

36 3.2 Superstructure Saw tooth roof shape

37 3.2 Superstructure Tent

38 3.2 Superstructure Flexible building design

39 3.3 Side walls voorbeelden

40 3.4 Ventilation High volume low speed Axial ventilators

41 4 Herd management 4.1 Animal husbandry 4.2 Health and fertility 4.3 Production and feeding

42 4.1 Animal husbandry

43 4.2 Health and fertility (1) Activity monitoring

44 4.2 Health and fertility (2) Claw scan

45 4.2 Health and fertility (3) Herd Management

46 4.3 Production and feeding Dynamic Linear Models

47 5 Farm management 5.1 Management information systems 5.2 Quality control 5.3 Chain management

48 5.1 Management information systems

49 5.1 Quality control KKM HACCP ISO

50 5.2 Chain management aspects

51 End Wageningen UR

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