Hands-on livestock research!

Saturday, 21st September 2024 from 10:00 a.m.
until Saturday, 21st September 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

FBN Campus Dummerstorf
Wilhelm-Stahl-Allee 2
18196 Dummerstorf

The Research Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf near Rostock stands for responsible, socially accepted livestock farming as part of sustainable agriculture. Around 300 employees from the fields of science, technology, laboratory, stable management and administration conduct research on and with animals on topics such as biodiversity, sustainable resource utilisation, animal welfare and animal health. This year we are once again organising an "Open Day" on our campus and we look forward to introducing you to our work with lots of activities for young and old. With the Open Day, the FBN would like to continue the successful tradition of this event and make its current research accessible to the general public.

The State Research Centre for Agriculture and Fisheries MV (LFA) will once again be taking part in the Open Day with its Institute for Animal Production and presenting practical research in an understandable way.

The open day will be held in conjunction with the park festival in Dummerstorf.

You can download the programme flyer here: PDF (only available in German)

Programme items:

• Guided tours of the pig and cattle barn, as well as the animal technology centre (central veterinary medicine and research centre)
• Presentations by FBN scientists on topics relating to climate change, behaviour, alternative protein sources and genetics
• Continuous presentations on topics such as

• Training/studies/careers at the FBN
• The FBN as an extracurricular learning centre
• Understanding animal experiments
• Learning on the goat monitor
• The mood in the voice
• Cultivated meat
• Insects as feed and food
• Methane and cows
• Fish larvae and aquaculture
• GLC measurement (glucose oxidation from dietary carbohydrates)
• Rumen microorganisms under the microscope
• How saliva and hair reveal our stress
• How do you get cortisol out of the hair?
• From the egg cell to the embryo

• Entertainment:

• Quiz - knowledge safari with small prizes
• Dummerstorf fire brigade: water spraying and bouncy games
• Bouncy castle

• Varied supply of food and drinks

The open day at the FBN will take place in 2024 together with the park festival in Dummerstorf.