Ilvo (flanders research institute for agriculture, fisheries and food)
- Main info
Ilvo living lab agrifoodtechnolgy, ilvo food pilot milk and diary analysis, ilvo animal unit meat quality pigs, ilvo animal unit meat quality poultry, ilvo dairy research barn, ilvo feed production, ilvo’s pig research barn
Merelbeke, belgium
- General info
Institute: Ilvo (flanders research institute for agriculture, fisheries and food)
Institution type: Public
Funding: Pigweb h2020- research infrastructures, smartcow, ilvo varkenscomplex 'deense stal'
Type of Facility: Animal health, body composition, carcass & meet quality, environment impact, feed & feed technologies, housing & system trials, performance trials, physiological studies
Type of housing: Free-stall with cubicles, barn housing, Outdoor, fattening compartment, 8 pens intensive, semi-slatted flooring 8x15 pigs
External events: Yes (prior agreement needed)
- Livestock info
Livestock type: Various
Number of livestock: 140 cows, two sow herds (one of 105 and one of 140 sows) in a 3-week system, and a nursery.
- Resources & Technologies
Hyperpectral camera's vnir +nir, multispectral camera's, ftir for diary, cielab colour meter, greenfeed emission monitoring, precision feed mixing, laboratory facilities
Portable spectomeer 350-2500 nm, chemical lab, drip measurement, roughage feed and concentrate intake, feed monitoring : sowsis the growing-finishing barn is equipped with different ammonia emission reduction systems. air scrubber system containing biological and chemical air cleaning stages, advanced emission measuring systems are available to monitor gas (ammonia, ghg, odour) and particle (pm) emissions both at compartment and air scrubber level.
Machine vision general, industrial camera's, food taste labatory, imf lab measuremenet ( chemical, foss), milk quality and production, nir foss, rfid feeding system (4 pens), weighing scales in the pens, rfid drinking system, climate monitoring feed mill
3d scanner creaform (clawcare), shearforce measurement, body weight
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- Infrastructures
Conveyor belt, feeding station (4 pens)
Lab scanners
Halogen and led lights