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Factsheets

Below is a list of Factsheets produced by the Model Farm Project.

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The Factsheets are designed to illustrate how FAI deals with various issues faced by farming.

Pigs

  • Leaving tails on pigs >>
  • Eating Quality Pork
  • Free Farrowing for Indoor Sows
  • Provision of High Fibre Diets for Pigs
  • Thermal and Physical Comfort for Pigs

Cattle

  • Beef Production after Decoupling
  • Horns and Cattle
  • Reduction in Antibiotic Use in Cattle
  • Total Mixed Ration Feeding for Cattle
  • Woodchip

Poultry

  • Injurious Pecking in Turkeys
  • Litter Management in Free Range Poultry Systems
  • Managing Pullets through Point of Lay
  • Mechanised Cleaning and Ark Movement in Free Range systems
  • Range and Poultry
  • Restricted Feed in Broiler Breeders

Sheep

  • Best Practice in Sourcing Rams
  • Do We Need to Castrate Lambs?
  • Farmers in Control of Internal Parasites in Sheep
  • Fostering Techniques in Sheep
  • Lameness in Sheep
  • The Benefits of Closing the Lowland Flock
  • What is a Dry Lying Area for Sheep

Species Development Projects

  • R & D at FAI
  • The Cattle Development Project
  • The Pig Development Project
  • The Sheep Development Project

General

  • Disease Reduction through Immune Competence
  • Easy Warning Systems
  • High Fibre Feed and Human Health
  • Integral Environmental Enrichment
  • Nitrogen Balance
  • Peer Groups
  • Reducing Antibiotic Use in Animals

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