PTEA

The research farm is located in Guadeloupe (in the Caribbean) in a tropical humid climate. It is close to important and recognised research units in the field of animal and health production.

It provides research support through programs on :

• Adaptation of animals to farming constraints: resistance to parasitism in small ruminants, heat adaptation in pigs (feeding, reproduction...).
• Multi-criteria assessment of forage plant resources, conventional or not conventional (banana, cassava, potato, shrub legumes ...).
• The zootechnical, agronomic and environmental assessment of farming systems.
• Reproduction (semen freezing, artificial insemination, embryo transfer, ultrasound).
• Pastoralism (morphological/floristic composition of the meadows, measurements of biomass ...).
• Feeding (ingestion, rumen/duodenum level digestibility, kinetics of degradation, measurement of methane release...)
• Parasitology (Famacha method, clinical index, integrated management of parasitism...)
• Official scoring of Creole cattle, carcass quality measurements, …
• Ruminant and monogastric farming systems
• Production of vermicompost.

The pig team is particularly qualified for the implementation of heat adaptation experiments and experiments to find solutions to alleviate the negative effects of heat stress. PTEA has facilities and skills to perform heat challenge tests (climatic chamber), digestibility experiments (digestibility rooms), carcass and meat qualities (slaughter house), and production, reproduction and thermoregulation trait measurements during each stage of pig (reproduction, lactation, growth).

The team has all the qualifications to conduct out project successfully. All experiments support internships and Ph.D.students, and our teams share results in communications and papers.

In the framework of the PIGWEB project, the following swine research installation is available:

THE CREOLE BREED