Animal in Balance Factfinding on housing innovations
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)
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
1 General Introduction 1.1 Body dimensions 1.2 Welfare 1.3 Environmental factors
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
1.2 Welfare Aspects: behaviour health resting eating & drinking locomotion group size hygiene Natural lying positions
1.3 Environmental factors Aspects Air quality and quantity (ventilation) Light Skills of the farmer
2 Housing 2.1 Lying areas 2.2 Walking areas 2.3 Eating areas 2.4 Milking systems
2.1 Lying areas - Cubicles Purpose: Hygienic lying areas Problem: Natural movement of laying down and getting up is impeded From past..
2.1 Lying areas Cubicle dividers (1) to present...
2.1 Lying areas Cubicle dividers (2) verder onderverdelen en voorbeelden and future.
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
2.1 Lying areas deep litter Sand and straw
2.1 Lying areas automatic straw distributor
2.2 Walking areas Deep litter (see 2.1) Solid floors - less ammonia emission - slippery Slatted floors
2.2 Walking areas solid floors with profile
2.2 Walking areas solid asphalt floors Asphalt gives grip and less clawproblems Solid rubber coated floor: better claw health
2.2 Walking areas solid floors with grooved Grooved floor Solid floor with openings for removal of urine
2.2 Walking areas slatted floors Slatted floors with rubber
2.2 Walking areas Manure removal
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
2.3 Eating areas Group feeding with feeding rack Self locking or minimal construction
2.3 Eating areas - Automatic roughage feeding to groups
2.3 Eating areas - Individual roughage feeding (fixed time) Self locking and unlocking feeding rack
2.3 Eating areas Individual roughage (fixed place)
2.3 Eating areas Individual on demand concentrate feeding
2.3 Eating areas - Individual on demand roughage feeding
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
2.4 Milking systems Automatic milking Astronaut Merlin VMS Galaxy Zenith
2.4 Milking systems High capacity milking parlours
2.4 Milking systems Adaptations to individual animal Robot delaval
2.4 Milking systems Future automation in milking parlours Flexible robotarm
3 Building 3.1 Design 3.2 Superstructure 3.3 Sidewalls 3.4 Ventilation
3.1 Design
3.2 Superstructure Greenhouse structures
3.2 Superstructure Saw tooth roof shape
3.2 Superstructure Tent
3.2 Superstructure Flexible building design
3.3 Side walls voorbeelden
3.4 Ventilation High volume low speed Axial ventilators
4 Herd management 4.1 Animal husbandry 4.2 Health and fertility 4.3 Production and feeding
4.1 Animal husbandry
4.2 Health and fertility (1) Activity monitoring
4.2 Health and fertility (2) Claw scan
4.2 Health and fertility (3) Herd Management
4.3 Production and feeding Dynamic Linear Models
5 Farm management 5.1 Management information systems 5.2 Quality control 5.3 Chain management
5.1 Management information systems
5.1 Quality control KKM HACCP ISO
5.2 Chain management aspects
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