Agroscope
- Main info
Agroscope’s swine research facility ags
Posieux, switzerland
- General info
Institute: Agroscope
Funding: H2020- research infrastructures
Type of Facility: Animal health, body compositioncarcass & meet quality, performance trials, physiological studies, experimental dairy station
Type of housing: Pig housing
- Livestock info
Livestock type: Dairy and beef, Pigs
Number of livestock: A herd of 90 sows, 150 dairy cows
- Resources & Technologies
Automatic dry feeders collecting feed intake data on an individual basis, laboratory facilities
7 pens for gestating sows, 3 farrowing rooms with 14 pens each, 6 pens for weaners, 8 pens for grower-finishers (2 feeding stations per pen).
One pen equipped with 4 feeding stations for 48 growing-finishing pigs is on a deep-straw system with exterior climate.
- Infrastructures
Feed mill
The abattoir
The laboratory for chemical and physiological analysis and for meat quality.
All equipment necessary to prepare samples for chemical body composition determination is onsite
Two dual energy x-ray absorptiometers (dxa) for instant live and carcass body composition measures.