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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)
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
Contact person tel:
+385 1 2390 323  Contact person fax: +385 1 2441 390 
Contact person e-mail: Email 
Partners
Organisation nameCountry
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 
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.  
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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