About the Institute

The cattle farm is located at the Agricultural Experimental Station Wilanów-Obory, 20 km from the seat of the University. Currently, about 320 dairy cows are kept with an average milk yield of about 10 thousand. kg of milk. At present, milking cows are kept in 2 new free-stall, litter-box barns, and cows dried in an identical system in the farrowing house, half of the area of which is occupied by 13 individual farrowing pens with an area of approx. 10.5 m2 each and as many individual cages for calves kept here during the colostrum watering period. The applied free-standing group housing of cows is functional and effective in terms of production, but it makes it difficult to treat cows individually and conduct research. This inconvenience will be eliminated after the construction of a juniper with 50 tether positions for cows next to heifers.

The sheep and goat farm was established in 1988. as a separate facility in RZD Żelazna. At present, there are: 17 Boer goats, 80 mothers of the Iron Sheep, 6 dams of the Polish Heather breed, 20 dams of the Wrober line, 20 dams of the Pober line, 3 rams of Berrichon du Chare.
The animals are kept on deep bedding in two closed buildings and three semi-open sheds, equipped with standard feeders and drinkers for sheep. The herd produces seed material for other conservative breeding, evaluation of the fattening efficiency and slaughter value of lambs based on interracial crossing, evaluation of reproductive traits and meat performance of goats and sheep.

The pig farm is located at the Agricultural Experimental Station of SGGW Wilanów-Obory. Farm size: up to 40 sows of the livestock with brood (currently 10 sows); one building with an area 1000m2 divided into sectors:
– reproduction: group pen for sows with a computer feed station, 5 pens intended for: boar and sows after weaning;
– farrowing house: 12 farrowing pens with a solid floor (bedding used – sawdust), a yoke for the sow, standard equipment;
– weanery: 8 pens for weaners and 8 pens for finishers in group maintenance (5 each per pen);
– individual fattening house: 96 pens in 4 rows, 24 pens in each, individual feeding of feed, in dry form: loose or granulated from 4 silos with a capacity of 2.4 tons each; keeping on bedding (straw or sawdust), sloping the floor in the pen 8o towards the manure channel, removing manure – manure scraper;
The pigsty is equipped with fodder and dung lines, mechanical ventilation, an automatic animal watering system, and a heating system. During the classes, the following devices are used: the pig’s vital signs evaluation device (PIGLOG 105) and an ultrasound device for pregnancy diagnosis. The pig housing system in the pig house meets the requirements of high welfare.

The farm includes a building with an area of 1000 m2, including: two meat poultry rearing halls, each for 1000 broiler chickens; 1 laying hall with two segments of cage batteries adapted to the applicable regulations, each for 240 hens; 1 hall for ornamental poultry with access to runs (for approx. 800 pcs.), Egg storage with grading machine. The farm is located at the Agricultural Experimental Station of SGGW Wilanów-Obory.

The rabbit farm was launched in autumn 2005. and is located on the premises of RZD SGGW Wilanów-Obory. The animals come from a breeding farm belonging to the National Research Institute of Animal Production in Balice.
The farm is staffed by 35 females and 5 males. They are New Zealand white animals, the typical breed used in the meat direction. Air-conditioned room, 80 rearing cages.

The apiary is located on the premises of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, behind building no. 3 (Old Campus). The experimental apiary (1.85 ha) consists of 50 bee colonies of the Carniolan breed A. m. carnica, Italian Apis mellifera ligustica, Caucasian A. m. caucasica and colonies of solitary mason bees (Osmia rufa) along with the field of the studio (1.2 ha) with flowering honey plants, three equipped laboratories for: breeding and insemination of bee queens, breeding solitary bees, quality of bee products and the stencil – a building intended for for wintering bees. Due to the teaching activities, bees are selected primarily for their gentleness, but also for their hardiness and honey production. The Apiculture Laboratory conducts research on the quality of bee products, rearing and artificial insemination of mothers, the behavior of bees, apiary management and the biology of bumblebees and solitary bees.

A quail house with a basic herd of Japanese quails with 80 parent nests from four lines, of which two lines – J and W, have been conducted in the system of conservative lines for 60 generations (source of genetic material); the other two are S – selected for over 20 generations in terms of body weight at 28 days of age and K – a parallel control line. Japanese quails are mainly used as experimental material, constituting a relatively cheap model for poultry research, primarily for genetic and breeding research, but also for nutritional, physiological, embryological research, etc.

Currently, approximately 350 mice (L and C selection lines, colored) and 50 Mongolian gerbils are kept in the conventional system. L (light) and C (heavy) line mice are oppositely selected by body weight at 21 days of age continuously for 50 years (144 generation). The mating system of these mice is aimed at minimizing inbreeding in order to preserve the greatest possible genetic variability. Research on aging processes, fertility disorders and behavioral disorders is carried out on mice from these lines. Colored mice (over a dozen color varieties) and gerbils are kept mainly for educational purposes and behavioral research

Stable with a covered riding arena – (riding school 25m x 60m), an outdoor square for horse riding (20m × 60m) and a collection of teams (location: Warsaw – Wolica). A stable with 17 boxes with full equipment. Animal condition: 17 horses. Facilities and complete equipment with riding equipment for practicing various forms of equestrianism (various types of saddles for horse riding, a set of obstacles for learning jumping).