Prof. Dr. Prisca Kremer-Rücker

• Animal breeding and husbandry

• Sustainable Process Engineering Animal Husbandry, Animal Welfare
• Focus Animal Production
• Special animal production
• Animal Health
• Animal husbandry and breeding
• Processes and economics of animal production

2022

• Investigation into the prevalence of tail lesions and their causes in dairy cows

2021

• Conversion of a Swabian dairy farm to selective drying off to reduce the use of antibiotics

• Fertility in bulls - relationship between semen quality and fertilisation performance

2020

• Analysis of activity, lying and birthing behaviour of sows and piglets in exercise pen systems

• Incidence of tail lesions in dairy cattle

• Status analysis of udder health on a dairy farm

• ProGesund - Data collection for breeding for health - A survey on awareness and acceptance

• Joint future concept for two separate farms (distance 23km) with animal husbandry in the same family ownership

2019

• Analysis of crush losses in different farrowing pens

• Influence of keeping mother sows in exercise farrowing pens on the occurrence of tail biting in weaned piglets

• Mastitis: analysis and improvement concept of a herd problem

• Inflammation and necrosis syndrome in piglets

2018

• Assessment of claw health status in tethered housing with recommendation for moving to an open housing system

• Effects of a claw washing system on claw health in dairy cows at the Triesdorf milk production centre

• Occurrence and evaluation of lesions on suckling piglets of different genetics

• Development of an advisory protocol on the dairy farm to improve animal health and increase performance parameters

• Development of a suckler cow husbandry concept in Marktheidenfeld, Lower Franconia

• How can metabolic problems of the dairy cow and their consequences be recognised, prevented and reduced on a farm?

• Influence of season, farm size and claw care interval on claw health

• Relationship between testicular growth and the occurrence of boar odour components in intact and immunologically castrated boars

2017

• Comparison of the efficiency of different breeding models in the Bavarian breeding area

• Analysis and optimisation of calf husbandry