Animal Husbandry

The Animal Husbandry division develops strategies for improving livestock husbandry on organic holdings. For all livestock species, the combination of site-appropriate breeding, ethologically sound husbandry, efficient hygiene measures and preventive feeding strategies are of major importance. Our strategies tackle issues at different levels: With dairy cows the focus is on sustainable breeding strategies for organic farming. In poultry keeping, housing systems, feeding and management are optimized with a view to ethological criteria as well as parasite burdens. In sheep and goats, parasite problems are addressed by way of bioactive feedstuffs.