Experimental Biobase for Animal Nutrition

The AnimBio infrastructure concentrates most of the equipment, methodologies/know-how, and personnel involved in animal nutrition in Romania. A large part of the specific infrastructure equipment (digestibility cages, metabolic chambers, equipment used to determine ruminal degradability, etc.) are unique in Romania. The role of AnimBio is to provide the necessary basis for conducting research on animal nutrition (on the major species and categories of farm animals), at European standards and in a sufficiently large volume of activity to ensure a significant flow of scientific results, thus representing a determining factor for the modernization of the livestock sector, with major impact on society.

EXPERIMENTAL FARM:

• 237 ha of arable land used for nutrition experiments (production of experimental forage, ensuring roughage for nutrition tests in ruminants);
• shelters for swine, cattle, poultry, arranged for experimental activities specific to animal biology and nutrition;
• cattle (total capacity = 250 heads): cows (shelter/pasture), fattening calves, prophylactic area, fiberglass calf hutches, summer camp;
• pigs (total capacity = 2000 heads): maternity, weaned piglets, fattening pigs;
• poultry (annual capacity = 20,000): battery cage system or floor system.
• digestibility cages/stalls for cattle, sheep, swine;
• microclimate-controlled chambers for rearing broilers and laying hens;
• facilities for processing and preserving roughages;

COLLABORATION: IBNA collaborators/interested units can benefit, on a contractual basis, from the biobase infrastructure and specialized personnel for conducting experiments in the IBNA biobase.

For further details, please visit the page: Availability for cooperation