Norwegian university of life sciences, norwegian institute of food, fisheries and aquaculture
- Main info
Senter for husdyrforsøk (shf), forskningsstasjon for bærekraftig akvakultur (nofima) sundalsøra, senter for fiskeforsøk, havbruks stajon tromsø, fish-vet
Ås, norway
- General info
Institute: Norwegian university of life sciences, norwegian institute of food, fisheries and aquaculture
Institution type: Public
Type of Facility: Experimental unit, research & commercial educational institution, aquaculture growth trials, cancer, neurobiology
Type of housing: Free stall barn, Indoors, fresh and salwater (landbased flow through and ras), fresh and salwater (sea cages and ras), freshwater (ras and flow through), pig housing
External events: Yes
- Livestock info
Livestock type: atlantic salmon and cod, Dairy cattle (norwegian red), goat, medaka, Pigs, Poultry (broilers), rainbow trout, salmon, sheep, zebra danio
Number of livestock: 120 cows, 80 dairy goats, 150 sheep, 60 no of sows and 84 no of pigs, 5000 broilers, thousands fish
- Resources & Technologies
Feed intake -automated feed intake (biocontrol), individual feed intake, x-ray feed intake, hyperspectral welfare indicators, radio isotope analysis
Automated milking robots de laval, de laval milking parlour, portable accumulcation chambers (ch4, co2, o2), weighing, water intake, blood metabolites, parasite challenges (sea lice), tank level feed intake
Greenfeeders (ch4, co2, o2), portable accumulcation chambers (ch4, co2, o2), behaviour and video, proximate analysis (fat, protein, ash), cameras - behaviour analysis
Automated weighing, water intake, cameras, fatty acids analysis
Climate respiration chambers
- Infrastructures
Behaviour & welfare, animal health, body composition, feed & feed tehnologies, housing & system trials, physiological studies, individual feeding, seven weeks of pool operation with space for three pools of 20 sows, water meters at group level, vaccine trials/immunization trials