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Lantbruks- och trädgårdsföretagarnas egen forskningsstiftelse finansierar behovsdriven forskning för svenska förhållanden.
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Status: | Pågående |
Projektnummer: | JTI-20-82-482 |
Kategori: | S-JTI | Klimat-, miljö- och produktionsutmaningar |
Ansökningsår: | 2020 |
Huvudsökande: | Cecilia Lindahl |
Organisation: | RISE Research Institutes of Sweden |
E-postadress: | cecilia.lindahl@ri.se |
Telefon: | 010-516 69 38 |
Medsökande: | Charlotta Löfström |
Medsökande: | Cecilia Hagberg |
Heat stress is expected to be of major concern in Swedish animal production systems in the future. The air temperatures in parts of Sweden are expected to correspond to today's temperatures in southern Europe, where livestock experience heat stress today. Excessive thermal load affects the welfare and health of pigs negatively. Confined pigs have limited physiological and behavioural abilities to loose heat. In an effort to loose heat during warmer periods pigs often choose to lay on the cooler slatted floor resulting in pen fouling, increased workload, disturbance of the pigs' resting behaviour and increased agonistic behaviours. Pen fouling also has negative impacts on the air quality (ammonia, airborne bacteria and respirable particles). Floor cooling in pens for fattening pigs has the potential to enhance the thermal and gaseous environment in the fattening pig barns resulting in improved pig welfare, performance and health as well as the working environment.
Värmestress förväntas bli ett stort problem inom svensk animalieproduktion i framtiden. Lufttemperaturerna i delar av Sverige förväntas motsvara dagens temperaturer i södra Europa där produktionsdjur upplever värmestress idag. Bl.a. påverkar alltför hög värmebelastning grisars välfärd och hälsa negativt. Inhysta grisar har begränsade fysiologiska och beteendemässiga möjligheter att göra sig av med överskottsvärme. Redan idag väljer ofta grisarna att lägga sig på det svalare spaltgolvet under varma perioder. Detta leder till nedsmutsning av boxarna, ökad arbetsbelastning, störning av grisarnas vilobeteende och ökade agonistiska beteenden. Smutsiga boxgolv har även en negativ inverkan på stallmiljön som påverkar grisarnas hälsa samt arbetsmiljön negativt. Golvkylning i boxar till slaktsvin har potential att förbättra den termiska och gasformiga miljön i slaktsvinsavdelningar som i sin tur leder till förbättrad djurvälfärd, produktion och hälsa likväl som förbättrad arbetsmiljö.
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Wheat bran is the largest by-product of wheat flour production with approximately 300,000 tonnes in Sweden. Bran is mainly used in animal feed, as human digestion is not fully able to absorb it. Wheat bran contains valuable biomolecules, such as dietary fiber (arabinoxylans, AX) and phenolic …
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Competing unshod is an important issue for the Swedish harness industry. There is a general opinion that performance may increase significantly but it does not always work. The reason for failure may be disturbed locomotion “balance” of the horse or due to pain from the hooves. This is obviously …
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Resistance to anthelmintic drugs is a threat to equine welfare. Like antibiotics, is restrictive use of anthelmintics necessary to retain their effectivity. Thus, targeted selective treatment, based on individual deworming, was introduced a decade ago. However, we have shown that the prevalence of, …
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Acquired equine polyneuropathy (AEP) is a devastating neurologic disease affecting Nordic horses. Characteristic histopathological changes have been shown in the peripheral nerves of horses euthanized due to the disease. These include re- and demyelination as well as hypertrophy of perikaria and …
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This project is the Swedish part of the Nordic 4-year project Improving Nordic dairy cow fertility through genetics, the only prioritized research project from Nordic Dairy Cattle R&D, 2015. Research funding is applied for within each country. The focus area of our Swedish part is to investigate …
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We are facing a protein shift in which a portion of the animal based protein in our diet needs to be replaced by plant proteins to reduce the climate impact from the food sector. Many agricultural by-streams contain high value proteins not used to their full potential. We aim to recover proteins …
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Disease and production disturbances in a herd are often silent, and may cause major losses if they remain undetected. Continuous analysis and monitoring of data already recorded at the farm level can improve profitability. This project will develop methods for monitoring trends in production and …
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