Model Farm Project Resources

Food Animal Initiative (FAI) >>

http://www.modelfarmproject.org

Leaflets:

• Model Farm Project (English) [PDF 1MB] >>
• Model Farm Project (Chinese) [PDF 973KB] >>

Project report sheets:

• R&D at FAI [PDF 123KB] >>
• The pig development project [PDF 127KB] >>
• The poultry development project [PDF 131KB] >>
• The cattle development project [PDF 129KB] >>
• The sheep development project [PDF 120KB] >>

Technical data sheets:

Generic:

• Integral environmental enrichment for farmed animals [PDF 142KB] >>
• The importance of maintaining animals in peer groups [PDF 163KB] >>
• Nitrogen balance on farm [PDF 136KB] >>
• Reducing antibiotic use in farmed animals [PDF 142KB] >>
• Disease reduction through improved immune competence [PDF 130KB] >>
• Easy weaning systems for farmed animals [PDF 145KB] >>
• High fibre feed and human health [PDF 162KB] >>

Pigs:

• Thermal and physical comfort in pigs [PDF 173KB] >>
• Free farrowing for indoor sows [PDF 159KB] >>
• Preventing tail biting and leaving tails on pigs [PDF 160KB] >>
• Improving eating quality of pork [PDF 130KB] >>
• The provision of high fibre diets for pigs [PDF 173KB] >>

Poultry:

• Managing pullets through point of lay [PDF 139KB] >>
• Increased income from improved range provision for poultry [PDF 212KB] >>
• The management of injurious pecking in turkeys [PDF 135KB]>>
• The management of litter for poultry under free range conditions [PDF 147KB] >>
• The practical and commercial ramifications of removing the need to restrict feed in broiler breeders [PDF 141KB] >>
• Mechanised cleaning and ark movement in free range systems [PDF 168KB] >>

Cattle:

• Removing horns in domestic cattle [PDF 211KB] >>
• Total mixed ration feeding to ruminants [PDF 153KB] >>
• Practical issues associated with the use of woodchip yards [PDF 532KB] >>
• The reduction of antibiotic use in cattle through respiratory disease management [PDF 156KB] >>
• Beef costs of production after decoupling [PDF 119KB] >>

Sheep:

• Fostering techniques in sheep [PDF 171KB] >>
• Farmers in control of internal parasites in sheep [PDF 198KB] >>
• What can we do about lameness in sheep? [PDF 122KB] >>
• Do we need to castrate lambs? [PDF 161KB] >>
• What is a dry lying area for sheep? [PDF 137KB] >>
• Disease prevention, best practice in sourcing rams [PDF 139KB]>>
• The benefits of closing the lowland flock [PDF 144KB] >>