Livestock farming

This facility is meant to house ewes for lambing. The building has a central area meant for feeding the animals, and on each side there are modular pens. Animals are housed on accumulated straw litter.

This facility is meant to house ewes for lambing. The building has a central area meant for feeding the animals, and on each side there are modular pens. Animals are housed on accumulated straw litter.

This facility is meant to house ewes for lambing and finishing lambs. The building has a central area meant for feeding the animals. On each side there are modular pens with the possibility to isolate ewes for lambing at the back of each pen. Animals are housed on accumulated straw litter.

The structure of the OPEN’BAT has a widely open natural ventilation, and animals are given access to outdoor courtyards that can evolve to access pasture. The floor is modular: litter or wooden open-work floor. Those characteristics allow studies on the feasibility of breeding calves in line with society’s expectations.

This facility allows for a more fundamental approach to research work. Individual measurements on zootechnical performances but also on feed intake are possible through the use of weighing feeding troughs and connected drinking troughs. The INDI’BAT also allows testing different ambient conditions and analysing effluents produced. It is divided into 4 bioclimatic rooms with 24 spots, a room with an outdoor courtyard with 24 spots, and a metabolic room. Animals are housed on open-work wood flooring.

CIRVEAU has 4 10-spot igloos, which are collective outdoor pens, covered and mobile. A shelter in the form of an igloo is provided to the animals at the back of the pen. The whole is placed on a concrete platform, covered with straw bedding when animals are present.

This facility matches the most frequently encountered buildings in calf breeding farms. However, with its various equipment and connected sensors, it allows working on working comfort, interest in automation, and benefits of new technologies. It is divided into 2 rooms of 96 slots, one with classical dynamic ventilation and the other with centralised dynamic ventilation. Each room is composed of 12 pens for 8 calves each, with open-work wood flooring.

A herd of 15 Salers and Armoricaine cows are conducted extensively on this land. The herd is given access to the moorland from early spring to late autumn; the exact dates can vary from one year to the next. This serves as a good example of extensive breeding in large and remote rural areas, with limited physical access and limited access to any kind of communication network.

In this facility, animals are housed here from weaning until slaughter, in 11 batches. They are housed in free pens, on straw. Due to a breeding conduct in batches, this facility is not always at its maximum hosting capacity.

In this facility, animals are housed here from weaning until slaughter, in 10 batches. They are housed in free pens, on straw. Due to a breeding conduct in batches, this facility is not always at its maximum hosting capacity.