FBN
Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology
General Information
- Country:
- Germany
- Funding type:
- Public
- Type of organization:
- Research Institute
- Address:
- Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2
- Website:
- https://www.fbn-dummerstorf.de/en/
- Contact:
- pigweb@fbn-dummerstorf.de
- Additional Comments:
- For metabolic studies the pig facility integrates air-conditioned rooms with temperature control and provides places for nutrition and metabolic studies for 12 pigs. The room can host individual pens or metabolic cages for pigs of different bodyweights from 15 up to 100 kg. A open-circuit indirect calorimetry system is intregrated consisting of four respiration chambers for fattening pigs and sows. Based on gas exchange measurements (O2,CO2), energy expenditure and nutrient oxidation is quantified. Measurements of NH3 concentrations to assess nitrogen metabolism and efficiency is possible.
Expertise
Behaviour & Welfare
Animal Health
Body Composition
Breeding & Genetics
Carcass & Meat Quality
Environment Impact
Housing & System Trials
Performance Trials
Physiological Studies
Type of facility and capacity
Gestating sows
104 no of sows
Growing-finishing pigs
420 no of pigs
Lactating sows and piglets
38 no of sows
Slaugterhouse
1 pig(s) per year
Weaning pigs
368 no of pigs
Additional information
- The experimental pig farm of FBN keeps German Landrace and Angler Saddleback pigs with conventional or organic housing. Weighing troughs for fattening pigs, an automatic feeding system for sows to measure individual feed intake, an air-conditioning system, outdoor space, silos for seven different types of feed and a central mixing and distribution unit are all present at the facility. For metabolic studies the pig facility integrates air-conditioned rooms with temperature control and provides places for nutrition and metabolic studies for 12 pigs. The room can host individual pens or metabolic cages for pigs of different bodyweights from 15 up to 100 kg. A open-circuit indirect calorimetry system is intregrated consisting of four respiration chambers for fattening pigs and sows. Based on gas exchange measurements (O2,CO2), energy expenditure and nutrient oxidation is quantified. Measurements of NH3 concentrations to assess nitrogen metabolism and efficiency is possible.