Knowledge development
Progress for animal welfare
At Gut Aiderbichl, we are constantly expanding our knowledge of animal welfare through co-operation in scientific studies and research. Only on the basis of sound research results we can gain a better understanding of the animal species and ensure that the animals are cared for in a species-appropriate manner.
We want to share the new scientific findings with society through the Gut Aiderbichl Academy and our public relations work. This ensures a flow of knowledge and information that represents significant progress for animal welfare throughout Europe.
Expanding knowledge at Gut Aiderbichl
Improving the quality of life for horses
As a Europe-wide animal welfare organisation, Gut Aiderbichl has set itself the task of sustainably improving the quality of life for older horses and making a significant contribution to a species-rich ecosystem. Together with the Sandgrueb Foundation and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, rescued horses at Gut Aiderbichl are observed in order to fully understand their social behaviour and group composition and ultimately demonstrate the benefits of sustainable ecosystems and the effects on animal health.
In addition, recommendations for Gut Aiderbichl are drawn up from the observation results in order to improve the quality of life of older horses in the long term. This ensures a flow of knowledge and information that not only leads to new scientific findings, but also represents significant progress for animal welfare throughout Europe. Gut Aiderbichl thus imparts knowledge on a new level and offers new solutions for maintaining the health of animals and plants.
Horse husbandry
Horse health
Learning to understand pigs better
Around 3 million pigs are kept in Austria alone. We already know a lot about their physiological needs such as nutrition, reproduction and the conditions that lead to a maximum meat yield during fattening.
But pigs are more than just meat suppliers. How do pigs think? How do they organise their social environment and how do they learn? These are the main questions that an international study team has been investigating since 2014 together with a herd of 37 Kune Kune pigs.
The exemplary behavioural observation project by Prof. Ludwig Huber, Dr Marianne Wondrak and Ariane Veit could not be extended in 2022. The researchers were now faced with the problem of who they could entrust with their beloved Kune Kune pigs. Who could take in a whole herd of pigs? For Gut Aiderbichl, knowledge about animals is the key to species-appropriate husbandry. For this reason, we saw it as our task to provide support here and give the herd of pigs a new home.
Clever Pig Lab
