Osservatorio Benessere Animale
O.B.A. srl
Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
About
Founded in 2022, Osservatorio Benessere Animale is a dairy industry service provider based in Cremona, Italy selling testing & quality, engineering & services.
Osservatorio Benessere Animale (O.B.A. srl) is a start-up based in Cremona, Italy, founded on 28 November 2022. It offers services to dairy cow farms focused on animal welfare and herd health. Its main offerings are a biological fly control protocol that uses parasitic wasps and predatory mites, and MetaboCheck, a metabolic blood analysis for periparturient dairy cows that calculates LFI and LAI indices. The company also provides consulting for farm management, business plans and investment analysis, and biosecurity protocols prepared by an in-house veterinarian. It is conducting RUMILAT, an applied research project funded under the regional rural development programme (Lombardy, SRH05), which studies rumination and milking-robot data from Lely robots to detect mastitis earlier. The project partners include an academic partner, the Università Cattolica di Piacenza indices, and the University of Milan. The company's team includes agronomists, veterinarians, a lawyer and a historian.
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Controllo naturale delle mosche (O.B.A. protocol)
Biological fly control
Fly control protocol using parasitic wasps and predatory mites placed in dairy farms, targeting fly eggs, larvae, pupae and adults, combined with consulting and periodic monitoring.
MetaboCheck
Metabolic blood analysis service
Periparturient blood sampling and metabolic profiling of dairy cows, calculating LFI and LAI indices, with a report including feeding and management recommendations.
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Azienda Agricola San Martino
Italy
Biological fly control with antagonistic insects (Isola Dovarese)
