Our Guidelines
Guidelines to ensure cow welfare have been produced for each of the topics covered in the project. Advice and good practices concerning lameness, mastitis problems, negative energy balance and stress in the herd are available below.
In the highly competitive NWE dairy sector (60% of EU milk), animal welfare is an increasing concern for both consumers and authorities and is a cause of economic losses. In this framework, HappyMoo aims at providing dairy farmers, vets and extension workers a tool to monitor cows' welfare and in particular the freedom from disease, hunger and stress. To achieve this, milk recording organizations (8), one IT-company, one pilot lab and research centres (3) are partners to build and design this tool, providing amounts of data and processing them via different statistical approaches. In particular, the possibility to use the mid-infrared spectrum of the milk to predict an impairment in those 3 freedoms will be investigated.
project co-financed by Région Wallonne
The project decided to focus of 4 sub-topics to assess the absence of disease, hunger and stress:
These are major welfare issues in dairy farming, causing pain to the animals and economic losses. Mastitis coordinator: Laura Dale (LKV-BW, LDale@lkvbw.de); lameness coordinator: Marie-Nguyet Tran (Elevéo, mntran@awegroupe.be)
At the beginning of lactation, negative energy balance and ketosis risk are common, as cows have to cope with the lactation peak. Coordinators: Marion Calmels (Seenovia, marion.calmels@seenovia.fr) and Valérie Wolf (CEL25-90, Valerie.Wolf@synergie-est.fr)
Dairy cows can live under stressful conditions and some cows are not able to cope. This can further lead to diseases. Coordinators: Virginie Vanden Dries (CRAW, v.vandendries@cra.wallonie.be) and Clément Grelet (CRAW, c.grelet@cra.wallonie.be)
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Organisation | Address | Website | |
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Elevéo by awé groupe |
4 Rue des Champs Elysées Ciney 5590 Belgium |
jleblois@awegroupe.be | www.awenet.be |
Name | Contact Name | Country | |
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France Conseil Elevage | Christophe Lecomte | christophe.lecomte@france-conseil-elevage.fr | France |
Regional association for performance testing in livestock breeding of Baden-Württemberg | Jürgen Bieger | jbieger@lkvbw.de | Germany |
Qualitas AG | Urs Schuler | Urs.Schuler@qualitasag.ch | Switzerland |
Centre wallon de Recherche agronomique | Frédéric Dehareng | f.dehareng@cra.wallonie.be | Belgium |
University of Liège - Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech | Nicolas Gengler | nicolas.gengler@ulg.ac.be | Belgium |
ESTEL Numérique | Jean-Pierre Allard | jp.allard@estel-numerique.com | France |
State Control Association of North Rhine-Westphalia | Peter Hoeckels | hoeckels@lkv-nrw.de | Germany |
CONVIS s.c. | Romain Reding | Romain.Reding@convis.lu | Luxembourg |
Institut de l'Elevage | Marie-Pierre Jacqueroud | Marie-Pierre.Jacqueroud@idele.fr | France |
Irish Cattle Breeding Federation Society Limited | Mike Lynch | mlynch@icbf.com | Ireland |
National Milk Records PLC | Martin Busfield | MartinB@NMR.co.uk | United Kingdom |
Guidelines to ensure cow welfare have been produced for each of the topics covered in the project. Advice and good practices concerning lameness, mastitis problems, negative energy balance and stress in the herd are available below.
LE DÉFICIT ÉNERGÉTIQUE CHEZ LA VACHE LAITIÈRE
Limiter ses conséquences grâce à une vigilance aux périodes clés !
LES BOITERIES : TOUT SAUF UNE FATALITÉ !
Des solutions à tous les niveaux
MAMMITES : PROBLÉMATIQUE SANITAIRE N°1 EN ÉLEVAGE LAITIER
Une gestion intégrée pour une amélioration durable
STRESS EN TROUPEAU LAITIER
Quels impacts et quelles solutions ?
NEGATIVE ENERGIEBILANZ BEI MILCHKÜHEN
Begrenzung der Folgen durch Wachsamkeit in wichtigen Phasen!
MASTITIS: DAS ZENTRALE GESUNDHEITSPROBLEM IN DER MILCHVIEHHALTUNG
Integriertes Management für eine nachhaltige Verbesserung
STRESS IN DER MILCHVIEHHERDE
Welche Auswirkungen hat er und welche Lösungen gibt es?
Elevéo asbl is in charge of official animal performance recordings for the Walloon farming community, including milk recording. It also maintains phenotypic, genomic and pedigree database for Walloon cattle, and organizes genetic evaluation services for the Walloon breeders and AI companies. Elevéo asbl implements and maintains management and breeding tools for Walloon farmers, vets and extension workers. Elevéo asbl ensures the management of EMR EEIG (70,000 farms in BE, FR, DE, LU, IE, UK, AT).
Elevéo asbl is part of the Walloon association of breeders awé group.
FCEL is a national federation of companies serving cattle and goat breeders. It gathers French organizations that realize official performance recordings of animals. FCEL network is comprised with a large number of farm consultants providing advice services to farmers in the whole France (more than 1,500 technicians and 260 engineers). FCEL delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
LKV-BW is a self-help farmers’ organization. The most important task of the association is to carry out performance and quality tests in the field of animal production on behalf of the state of Baden-Württemberg and to offer accompanying advice to farmers. It includes milk recording for more than 300,000 cows in 7,000 farms. Furthermore, it is the official association for animal identification. LKV-BW delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: https://lkvbw.de/
Qualitas is the competence center for computer science and quantitative genetics for Swiss breeding organisations. Qualitas has proven specialists in the fields of database applications, herd bookkeeping, performance testing and breeding evaluation. Qualitas has powerful hardware, zootechnical database and software applications and a modern printing and shipping line. It delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: https://qualitasag.ch/
Walloon Agricultural Research Centre of Gembloux (CRA-W) is a leading scientific institution, depending on the Walloon Ministry of Agricultures. For 30 years, the Department named “Valorisation des productions” manages an analytical laboratory and has been especially active in the field of the infrared spectrometry and Chemometrics which is the science of extracting information from chemical systems by data-driven means. CRA-W delivers standardization materials to EU labs for the service of EMR
Website: https://www.cra.wallonie.be/fr
ULiège- Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech is a major player in agricultural and biology science in Belgium. In particular, Numerical Genetics, Genomics and Modelling group (NGGM) has extensive experience providing scientific services in animal breeding, genetics and genomics, management and environmental challenges in dairy farms. Among other, the NGGM group has strong skills on milk composition for quality and biomarkers of interest.
Website: https://www.gembloux.uliege.be/cms/c_4039827/fr/gembloux-agro-bio-tech
ESTEL is a company which develops innovative digital solutions for the agricultural world and SMEs. This is the historical partner of both FCEL and EMR EEIG with regard to IT development and farm level data driven applications. ESTEL has specific skills in API (Application Programming Interface) for web-based systems, to optimize communication between various software components.
Website: https://www.estel-numerique.com/
LKV-NRW is a State Control Association and a service provider in agriculture with the following areas of responsibility: milk performance recording, milk quality check, animal identification, QM-Milk and QS system consultant. For the testing of raw milk samples, the LKV NRW uses the accredited test laboratory of IfM GmbH & Co. LKV-NRW delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: http://www.lkv-nrw.de/
CONVIS is an agricultural cooperative. Its main activities are animal production and agricultural extension. CONVIS has a direct relationship with farmers and provides milk recording for 80% of dairy farms in Luxembourg. It organizes other performance tests, and advices on all aspects of livestock breeding, feeding, husbandry and care. It’s in charge of safeguarding the interests of livestock breeding. It delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: https://www.convis.lu/home.html
IDELE is the reference technical institute for ruminant farming and breeding in France. It brings technical solutions for farmers and economic actors in the sectors, to value chains economic actors, complying with social issues such as animal welfare, traceability and environment. Its activities are from applied research to technology transfer, in animal health and welfare, genetics, animal husbandry, products quality, farm human resources, information systems, etc.
Website: http://idele.fr/
Irish Cattle Breeding Federation provides cattle breeding information services to the Irish farmers and industry to make the most profitable and sustainable decisions, through the use of the services provided from its database. ICBF’s activities revolve around the maintenance and growth of the national cattle breeding database, which holds information on all registered animals including performance data. It delivers IT tools to farmers and extension workers for management and decision making.
Website: https://www.icbf.com/wp/
NMR provides an integrated service working for both farmers and milk buyers as well as an independent source of data for advisors such as vets, farm consultants and breed societies. NMR is the leading supplier of milk recording services in the UK, providing management information on individual cow's performance in terms of milk quality, yield and fertility. It is acknowledged by the industry that NMR is the market leader in the provision and support of dairy software in Great Britain.
Website: https://www.nmr.co.uk/
One of the big goals of the project is to make these parameters measurable on a large scale by means of milk analyses. The following article, published in the March 2021 edition of the periodical luxembourgish newspaper "Ziichter", gives an insight into the current work of CONVIS for the year 2021. Read More
The following article was published in the September 2020 edition of the periodical luxembourgish newspaper "Ziichter" of the Luxembourg cooperative CONVIS. It provides to the members and customers of the cooperative and the local actors from politics and society for the first time the basic structure of the project as well as the current status from the perspective of CONVIS in this project. Read More
In Januari 2020, the project HappyMoo was introduced in the magazine "Le Wallonie Elevages". (available in french only) Read More
During the Agricultural Fair in Paris, Christophe Lecomte (FCEL) introduced the project HappyMoo, presenting the problematics and expected outputs. Enjoy the video! Read More