No cage and no stress: A new model for raising calves in Stara Zagora

Published Oct 22, 2025

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For two years now, the Agricultural Institute in Stara Zagora has stopped raising calves in cages and instead raises them in groups with a mother robot for feeding | Agri.BG

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In recent years, the idea of replacing individual calf pens with more modern and humane group rearing methods has been increasingly discussed in the livestock sector. An example of the successful implementation of this technology in our country is the Agricultural Institute in Stara Zagora, where calves have been group-reared with the help of a mother robot for feeding for two years now. Read more: Dr. Sinapov: Calf growth increases with group rearing Prof. Dr. Staika Laleva, Director of the Agricultural Institute – Stara Zagora since 2004, explains that the introduction of modern group rearing has brought numerous benefits for both the animals and the team taking care of them. "For two years now, we have stopped rearing calves in pens and have been group-rearing them with a mother robot for feeding. Here, for three days, they receive colostrum in the maternity ward, and after the third day, they are transferred to the yard where all the calves are and suckle from the mother ...
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