Animal production accounts for approximately half of the agricultural value added in Austria. Accordingly high is the interest of the society regarding questions related to animal production. At our division, within the framework of the three working groups Animal Husbandry, Animal Breeding and Feeding Systems, we are concerned with issues related to livestock sciences and work on these in teaching and research. Our core competences are the analysis of animal production systems and the development of optimizing strategies in the fields of animal breeding and quantitative genetics, animal husbandry and applied livestock ethology as well as feeding systems and applied animal nutrition.
