Research fields
Within the scope of the main research areas of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, WING’s staff studies the most diverse dynamics and challenges of the current and future-oriented production of eggs and poultry meat. The research projects are oriented towards the main goal of an innovative and sustainable poultry meat and egg production, with special regard to national as well as global contexts.
Scientific projects in the fields of animal health, animal husbandry and management, animal nutrition, sustainability, environmental protection and food production are implemented in an inter- and transdisciplinary context. Possible interactions of regulatory conditions of animal husbandry, international market influences as well as consumer behaviour are also in the context of the research focus:
Animal Health
- Poultry diseases and prevention methods.
- Reduction of antibiotic use in poultry production.
Animal husbandry, nutrition and management
- Optimisation of husbandry to increase animal welfare.
- Development and testing of more sustainable feeding concepts.
Sustainability and environmental protection
- Strategy concepts to reduce environmental impacts.
- Effects of different husbandry systems on environment.
- Evaluation of environmental impacts by conducting life cycle analysis (LCA).
- Poultry production in the context of food safety.
Food Production
- Characterisation of national and international markets.
- Interactions of changes in production and market impacts/consumption patterns.
- Spatiotemporal diffusion of new technologies using diffusion models of innovation research.
- Food production and globalisation.
