Animal husbandry, production and environment
The research area includes investigations concerning animal husbandry and welfare, as well as the impact of animal breeding on the environment.
Research topics
- Conservation of biodiversity in Italian poultry breeds
- Use of local chicken breeds in alternative production chain: welfare, quality and sustainability
- Integrated approach to the evaluation of the welfare and management in the equine meat farm
- Alternative rearing systems in rabbit farming: impact on productivity and animal welfare
- Improving sustainability in ovine animal productions: precision farming and new markers for assessing a better animal welfare
- Gut health and animal health
- Beef cattle and dairy farming, housing system, animal welfare indicators, animal performance, "disturbed habitat" conditions
- Evaluation of antibacterial efficacy against Lactococcus garvieae of the essential oil of basil in rainbow trout (Oncorhyncus mykiss) breeding
- Sustainable nutritional strategies for the improvement of animal-derived food products quality
- Sustainable forage system management
- Animal biomechanics and energy expenditure
- Monitoring, therapy, technology and biotechnology of reproductive pathologies in zootechnical species
- The study of the Microbiota and its role in the health of domestic and wild animals
- Holistic production to reduce the ecological footprint of meat
- Animal welfare and identification of stress marker/biomarkers
- Eco-epidemiology of vector-borne diseases
- Evaluation of One Health initiatives
- Innovative technologies and solutions for the management of mastitis in dairy cattle farms: diagnostic aspects and optimization of the use of the drug
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