Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences

 


 

Our research branches are:

 

Applied Ethology and Animal Welfare


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in charge:
Prof. Dr. Edna Hillmann




Comparative Vertebrate Ethology


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in charge:
PD Dr. Lorenz Gygax




 


 

- Outsorced financing projects -

 

MiZie

  • 03/2024 - 02/2027
  • Welfare oriented nutrition and lamb rearing in organic dairy goat husbandry
  • → FIS

SocialWelfare

  • 02/2024 - 01/2027
  • Multi-sensory mesh for horses in group housing
  • → FIS

KalbAmmWohl

  • 10/2023 - 09/2026
  • Concept for calf rearing that promotes animal welfare
  • → FIS

AvH FKZ

  • 03/2022 - 02/2026
  • Maternal care of domestic chicks
  • → FIS

Piglexity

  • 07/2021 - 11/2024
  • Pig welfare by behavioural complexity
  • → FIS

Impulsivity

  • 11/2023 - 09/2024
  • Impusivity and coping in horses
  • → FIS

NaTiMon (terminated)

  • 06/2020 - 07/2023
  • Development of the basis for a national monitoring of animal welfare
  • → FIS

KFreePig (terminated)

  • 12/2021 - 06/2023
  • A new approach to Pig Husbandry: reduced emissions, no tail-docking, no castration, no crates
  • → FIS

CowData (terminated)

  • 09/2018 - 05/2022
  • Farm data integration - key to cattle management success
  • → FIS

Pansens (terminated)

  • 01/2020 - 09/2022
  • Preventive diagnostics for cows with the aid of a rumen sensor
  • → FIS

 

Ratten (terminated)

  • 10/2019 - 09/2021
  • What Animals Want: A Pilot Study With Rats
  • → FIS

ProtecTier (terminated)

  • 02/2017 - 07/2020
  • Development of a Energy-Efficient, Multiparametric Sensor System for Calves and Cattle
  • → FIS