From Monday to Thursday, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Summer hours: from June 1 to September 15 (both inclusive), from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Facilities and equipment:
Feed Mill:
Feed production for research and innovation in feed manufacturing technology and animal nutrition.
Development of new products in collaboration with companies.
We have two independent production lines: one for ruminants and another one for poultry, swine, and aquaculture.
Production capacity of up to 2,500 kg/h.
Allows reproduction of all typical processes with the same feed manufacturing characteristics as at an industrial scale.
Production of small feed batches of 200 kg — ideal for experimental feeds or when the availability of the experimental product to be tested is limited.
In this video, you can learn more about the experimental feed mill at Mas Bové:
In addition, IRTA Mas Bové has different experimental farms:
Poultry:
Building A: 48 floor pens with a total capacity of 1,920 broilers.
Buildings B and C: 2 rooms with 24 pens each, for broilers or turkeys.
Building D: 56 floor pens for up to 2,240 broilers.
Buildings E, F, and G: 3 rooms for laying hens with enriched cages, 72 lots per room, and a total of 576 hens per room.
Building H: equipped with 72 enriched cages for digestibility studies.
Buildings I and J: 2 multipurpose rooms for studies with broilers or turkeys. Depending on use, they can hold a maximum of 1,300 broilers or 468 turkeys.
Buildings K and L: two rooms equipped with enriched cages for digestibility studies with laying hens, allowing studies with a total of 144 animals.
Building N: 24 floor pens for up to 600 broilers.
Building S: 48 floor pens for a maximum of 1,440 animals.
Swine:
We have a closed production cycle, meaning we produce our own piglets. The genetic line is (Landrace × Large White) × Pietrain.
Insemination area: 54 individual stalls for sows to facilitate insemination.
Gestation area: 2 free-access gestation pens with capacity for 50 sows, equipped with automatic feeding systems for individual feed intake control.
Farrowing area: 5 rooms:
Rooms 1, 2, 3, and 4: 10 places each
Room 5: 6 places
Nursery (Weaning/Transition):
Rooms 1, 3, and 5: 24 pens, 4 piglets per pen.
Rooms 2, 4, and 5: 12 pens each, 4 piglets per pen.
Modular barn, with 12, 24, or 48 pens and a maximum capacity of 94 animals.
Gilt Development Unit: building with 15 pens for gilt replacement and adaptation, equipped with an automatic feeding system for training.
Digestibility facilities:
Room 1: 12 individual cages for fattening pigs.
Room 2: 16 double cages for weaned piglets.
Fattening units:
Building 144: one group housing room with 36 pens for a total of 144 animals.
Building 128: group housing with 16 pens for a total of 128 animals.
Building 192: 48 pens with a total of 192 animals. This building can also be adapted to house sows when individualized feeding is required.
