Edycja projektu EPI

Details of the project EPI

Optimisation of cattle rearing and production efficiency through innovative solutions in barn and calf barn

09-02-2021 do 09-02-2024

3 246 515,70

EFRROW; national public funds

www.chlodzeniebydla.pl

The aim of this project is to develop of improved the curtain ventilation system, and also it will be elaborated the innovative cooling system of a holding area and a milking parlour. An energy-saving air cooling system with a moisture-absorbing section will be developed. This system will use heat from solar energy. Moreover, as part of the project, a system of calves maintain in open facility will be developed, with the use of igloo hutches, a special thermal screens, moving curtains system and anti-wind nets. These solutions will improve microclimatic conditions both in winter and summer. Using these innovative technologies, which have been described above, will lead to better animals health and comfort, milk production at a stable level, as well as the reduction of gas emissions.

The results of the operation have a huge adaptive potential. The solutions can be used in other areas of animal production. The development and application of new elements of the equipment of the barn will have a positive and supportive effect on air exchange in the facility, as well as will increase an air circulation. In summer, it is an important cooling factor that can be adapted to other buildings in the maintenance of different groups of cattle. In addition, the prototype of cooling technology which will be developed as part of the project, used in the milking parlor and the holding area, after appropriate adaptation, will be able to be successfully used in the maintenance of other animal species such as poultry or pigs.

animal husbandry and welfare