Projects

Federal State

Bavaria

Project Title

Health and animal welfare from calves and young cattle with the help of a voice-controlled app (concept development)

Project description

Concept development
Livestock farmers are obliged to regularly monitor the health and welfare of the animals on the farm. Due to the high effort required, there are major deficits in terms of animal welfare and health in the area of calf and young cattle husbandry, with potential effects on productivity and food quality.

The aim of this project is to develop a laboratory model of a voice-controlled cell phone app for calves and young cattle that facilitates intuitive recording of the most important characteristics for health and welfare. This can reveal weak points in husbandry and management through an expert-supported analysis and serve to monitor progress. Subsequent recommendations for action form an important basis for developing further measures to prevent diseases and improve animal welfare together with the veterinarian in charge as well as stable construction and feeding consultants. In this way, damage to animal health and thus animal welfare and economic consequences can be sustainably reduced. Young animals can become long-lived, productive cows and fattening animals do not die prematurely.

Final report

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Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

Project status

completed

Total budget applied for in EUR

96,883

Link 1

project for concept implementation

NUTS3 CODE

DE21H