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Innovation in livestock husbandry

Everything starts with a conversation

Innovation is crucial in modern livestock production. New techniques and developments in sustainability, animal welfare and public health are evolving rapidly.

Anitom is a research institute that helps your organisation to keep up with these innovations and even lead the way. We provide tailor-made advice and support in various innovation projects.

In our facilities for broilers we can carry out your research project from start to finish.

A broad variety of topics can be addressed ranging from feed trials and other zootechnical research to innovative research for sustainable and profitable farming.

We're experienced with various animal species, ranging from broilers, layers, pigs and cattle as well as aquaculture and insects.

We are happy to work with you on product and protocol development and registration trials.

We also participate in research projects and seek cooperation with universities and other scientific institutions.

As certified AB coach (Belpork and Belplume) we offer our service to help you reduce antimicrobial usage in livestock production.

We are continuously involved in research regarding this topic.

We provide custom made consultancy to support or improve livestock production, health and animal welfare on your farm.

Interested in livestock innovation?

Continuous improvement

Anitom consists of a team of driven veterinary researchers with specific broiler facilities. We can offer a range of zootechnical trials, going from controlled pen trials up to large scale broiler trials.

We also have a broad network in the European veterinary and livestock community. This provides access to an extensive infrastructure for trials, allowing us to facilitate trials in the main types of livestock: including alternatives to antibiotics, alternative protein sources, among other things.

Curious about what we can do for you? Feel free to give us a call or send an e-mail to tommy.vanlimbergen@anitom.be.

Our Services

Our services are not limited to this list, we want to give you an idea of some of the things Anitom can do for you.

Broiler trial facilities

In our facilities for broilers we can carry out your research project from start to finish.

Independent livestock research

We can lead research projects but we can also participate as partner, contractor or subcontractor. Below you can find some of our recent projects.

Antibiotic coaching

As certified AB Coach we can help you to reduce antibiotic usage in your farm or integration.

Consultancy

We provide custom made consultancy to support or improve livestock production, health and animal welfare.

Projects

Stop Spread Bad Bugs: help fight antimicrobial resistance

SSBB is focused on the discovery of novel antimicrobial approaches to reduce multidrug resistant bacteria. The aim of this project is to investigate whether certain NDO's or AMP's exhibit anti-infective effects on pathogenic respiratory and gastro-intestinal bacteria and hence support the “healthy” diversity of gut microbiota in poultry.

It's a PhD project born out of a collaboration between 14 leading European R&D laboratories from universities, industries and technology institutes.

The PhD student is mentored by both Utrecht University and Anitom. Anitom is also responsible for coordinating and conducting the broiler trials at our facilities.

Anitom's tasks:

Testing of anti-infective effects of new antimicrobial compounds in conventional broilers
Administering of new antimicrobial compounds and evaluation on health, zootechnical parameters, microbiome and immune system

NeoGiANT: the power of grape extracts

In order to fight AMR, NeoGiANT will develop novel natural antimicrobial products for the control and prevention of the most relevant diseases in animal production based on natural extracts derived from white grape marc as raw materials. The use of these alternative products will relegate antibiotics only to the treatment of acute infections and reducing their current prophylactic use.

Anitom is responsible for coordinating the in vivo feed trials. This involves the management of animal trials with pigs, cattle and fish that are performed at partner institutions. Furthermore, we conduct broiler trials at our facilities.