Rheda-Wiedenbrück, January 15.01.2019, XNUMX - Milestone in the sustainable development of livestock husbandry: Josef Bunge, long-standing and experienced feeding advisor at the North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Agriculture, has developed a new and innovative feeding concept ...
Denmark is building a fence at the border. Reason: Fear caused by the African swine fever ...
African swine fever has arrived in China. Swine fever cases have now been reported from various provinces, and new reports are added every day. The government is most afraid of outbreaks in the south, where the large pig fatteners with over 500 million animals are located ...
Two small pikes instead of two painful cuts - the animal-friendly alternative to surgical piglet castration without anesthesia has long been available. In so-called immunocastration, farmers vaccinate the male piglets in two steps so that they can be compared to animals before puberty at the time of slaughter. But although it is approved and protects the animals, the market is still struggling with the process. Scientist...
Hanover, November 14, 2018. What should the poultry house of the future look like? How can animal welfare, environmental protection, biosecurity and economic efficiency be reconciled? The International Poultry Conference at which the ZDG Zentralverband der Deutschen Geflügelwirtschaft e. V ...
The federal government has decided to allow piglet castration - without anesthesia - for a further two years. Actually, this should be banned from January 01st. Around 20 million piglets are castrated throughout Germany every year ...
Prof. Dr. Steffen Hoy and Ina Jans-Wenstrup from the Justus Liebig University in Gießen found in a recently completed research project funded by the QS Science Fund that there is currently no safe, repeatable and therefore permanent solution to prevent tail-biting in pigs gives. You are asking for innovative solutions to prevent ...
The German poultry industry reacted with considerable irritation and great concern to the sudden attempt by Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner to present a "practical method" for sex determination in eggs at a press conference on Thursday, November 8th, according to the ministry ...
Bonn, October 01.10.2018st, 2018 - As of October XNUMX, consumers will for the first time be able to identify pork and pork products that come from participating companies in the Tierwohl (ITW) initiative in the food retail trade (LEH) by the initiative's product seal ...
Berlin, September 3, 2018. FOUR PAWS, Greenpeace and foodwatch have demanded effective measures for the health of farm animals in Germany from the federal government ...
Berlin, August 30, 2018. German laying hen farmers are currently struggling with significantly higher costs in the production of eggs than they did a year ago. Henner Schönecke, chairman of the Bundesverband Deutsches Ei e. V ...