Project |
Acronym: |
FLOCK-REPROD |
Name: |
Hormone-free non-seasonal or seasonal goat reproduction for a sustainable European goat-milk market
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Project status: |
From: 2009-12-01
To: 2013-11-30
(Completed)
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Contract number: |
243520 |
Action line: |
CAPACITIES-FP7-SME |
Type (Programme): |
FP7 |
Funding scheme: |
FP7 |
Project cost: |
2.595.562,00 EUR |
Project funding: |
1.759.747,00 EUR |
Project coordinator |
Organisation Name: |
CAPGENES |
Organisation adress: |
Agropole -2135, Route de Chauvigny, 86550 -MIGNALOUX BEAUVOIR |
Organisation country: |
Francuska |
Contact person name: |
Pascal Boué |
Contact person email: |
Email |
Croatian partner |
Organisation name: |
Veterinarski fakultet |
Organisation address: |
Heinzelova 55, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia |
Contact person name: |
Prof. dr. sc. Juraj Grizelj
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Contact person tel: |
+385 1 2390 323 |
Contact person fax: |
+385 1 2441 390 |
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Contact person e-mail: |
Email |
Partners |
Organisation name | Country |
ARAL (Associazione Regionale Allevatori Lombardia) | Italija | Caprirom (Asociatia Nationala a Crescatorilor de Capre din Romania) | Rumunjska | ANCRAS (Associação Nacional de Caprinicultores da Raça Serrana) | Portugal | ACRIMUR (Asociación Española de Criadores de la Cabra Murciano-Granadina) | Španjolska | Prerada mlijeka i proizvodnja sira Radoslav Moravec | Hrvatska | KPRA Sociedad Cooperativa | Španjolska | Olympos (Dairy Factory of Larissa Olympos SA) | Grčka | INRA (Institut national de la recherche agronomique) | Francuska | INIA (Instituto Nacional De Investigacion Y Tecnologia Agraria Y Alimentaria) | Španjolska | Universitatea Ovidius Constanta | Rumunjska | INRB (Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biologicos I.P.) | Portugal | Universita Degli Studi Di Sassari | Italija | AUTH (Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis) | Grčka |
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Short description of project |
FLOCK - REPROD will provide the European dairy goat industry with the innovative, economically and environmentally - viable technology necessary to enable the hormone-free production of goat’s milk and related products (e.g. cheese). It will achieve this by controlling reproduction via artificial insemination (AI) all year round. FLOCK - REPROD technology will allow the EU dairy goat industry to operate in full conformity with EC regulation (96/22/EC) which restricts the use of exogenous hormones (currently used by the majority of dairy goat breeders using AI) and which will be reinforced more strictly in the very near future. In this manner, FLOCK - REPROD will ensure the future sustainability of the industry from both an economical and ecological perspective. FLOCK - REPROD will enable the EU dairy goat industry to respond to the growing demand for goat - milk products including organic goatmilk products via a consistent supply of hormone-free goat’s milk all year round. Due to constraints related to the seasonality of reproduction of the female goats, the project should imperatively start in the month of December 2009.
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Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner |
Our task is to characterise the ovulatory response to the male effect with and without photoperiodic treatments. Task 1 will be to determine if a photoperiodic treatment of females and/or of males is necessary to improve the response to the male effect throughout the seasonal anoestrus. This study concerns goats conducted in intensive and semi-intensive systems. This sub-task will be carried out in Saanen goats at a moment during anoestrus (the beginning of September) in which the benefits of photoperiodic treatments for improving the response to the male effect are not clear. Task 2: we will study several male management strategies in order to improve, simplify and standardize the male effect protocol. This task will be carried out in Saanen goats. Task 3: Applying prostaglandin - based AI Protocols using the male effect for inducing and synchronising ovulations. According to details described in the approach (control / experimental groups dimensions, methodology applied), in on - farm protocol validation of the new protocol will be performed during the anoestrus season, with or without photoperiodic treatment and during the breeding season without photoperiodic treatments. Task 4: Dissemination of scientific results to the R&D community via publications and conference presentations; dissemination and communication of the project objectives, events and achievements to the general public, stakeholders and policy makers; Developing and delivering training materials (DVD); Developing technical and practical guides; IPR Management and project exploitation; Development of a business model for European Technical Group in Goat reproduction.
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