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Presentation of FP7 project "Hormone-free non-seasonal or seasonal goat reproduction for a sustainable European goat-milk market : FLOCK-REPROD" a partnership between Research and Technological Development partners (RTD) and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)

FLOCK-REPROD FP7 project will provide the EU dairy goat industry with the innovative, economically and environmentally-viable technology necessary to enable the hormone-free production of goat’s milk and related products. It will achieve this by controlling reproduction via artificial insemination (AI) all year round. FLOCK-REPROD technology will allow the EU dairy goat industry to operate in full conformity with EC regulation (96/22/EC) which restricts the use of exogenous hormones (currently used by the majority of dairy goat breeders using AI) and which will be reinforced more strictly in the very near future. FLOCK-REPROD will enable the EU dairy goat industry to respond to the growing demand for goat-milk products including organic products via a consistent supply of hormone-free goat’s milk all year round, both in and out of the breeding season. In three scientific work packages (WPs) the RTD partners will carry out experiments to optimise the different techniques proposed. The main outcome from these WPs will be to propose a series of protocols (depending on the different technical and geographic situation of the breeders) based on the use of the male effect and light treatment to obtain a high-level of synchronisation to enable optimal AI procedures during and out of breeding season. This will be achieved by standardization of female parameters and management strategies of males to optimize the response to the male effect, reduce its variability and thus diminish the number of AIs needed to optimize fertility. Project thus proposes progestagen–free technical solutions based on male effect protocols with light treatment during and out of breeding season. In order to obtain highly synchronised male-induced ovulations compatible with a single AI, the treatment of females with prostaglandins (that are not subject to MLR – maximal residue limits authorised in milk) is also allowed. These protocols will then be tested in real life conditions in Demonstration WP so that they can be optimised and validated before Dissemination and Exploitation. The project unites cooperatives, regional networks of breeders and SME. The European caprine livestock is made up of 13.2 million goats. Countries involved in project (France, Greece, Spain, Italy, Romania, Portugal and Croatia) hold more than 80% of the European caprine livestock and provide almost 90% of the supply of European milk production. FLOCK-REPROD will also deliver the Trademark and associated licensing agreement as well as a business model to establish a European Technical Group in Goat reproduction.

goat; hormone-free; reproduction; AI; FP7

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