AI & Robotics Algorithms

This facility is composed of 2 pens: one 1000 m² housing for milking cows with 85 places at the trough and one 800 m² housing for heifers with 70 places at the trough. The cows are housed in a stall with cubicles on straw and an automatic scraper.

Mainly grouped around the building, this facility is composed of 42% of permanent meadow and 58% of temporary meadow. Most of it is grazed by the animals, and a progressive automation of the water troughs is ongoing.

This facility is a 650 m² holding pen that is used for several interventions on the animals, such as shearing, weighing, and health interventions. Animals enter from one side and are parked in a waiting area. Then they can be sorted and directed in different ways to the devices needed for the planned intervention.

This facility is meant for finishing lambs housing. 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. 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.