Wageningen university & research
- Main info
Dairy campus, animal breeding & genomics
Leeuwarden, the netherlands
- General info
Institute: Wageningen university & research
Institution type: Public
Funding: Pigweb, carus
Type of Facility: Research facility with several barns with different characteristics (parlour vs. milking robot, cubicles vs. freestall, et cetera)
Type of housing: Indoor barns with Outdoor access
External events: Yes
- Livestock info
Livestock type: cattle, Pigs
Number of livestock: 500 lactating animals, calves and dry cows, indoor/outdoor 40 dairy cows
- Resources & Technologies
Gps, activity (ultra-wideband), cameras in exit and barn, accelerometers, sniffers
Behaviour & welfare
Greenfeed, capacity to process dmi samples, capacity to process blood samples, capacity to process calorimeter/metabolism samples, capacity to process diet/feed samples individual feed intake facility, metabolism facility, capacity to process digestive system samples, capacity to process milk samples
Climate monitoring, environment impact, field experiments, housing & system trials, animal health, body composition
Milking data, herd health data
- Infrastructures
Modern data warehouse