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UBC Animal Welfare Judging Team Places 4th at Intercollegiate Competition

Congratulations to the Animal Welfare Judging team: (pictured from left to right) Laura Rounding, Eugenia Kwok, Katie Mills, Elena Pakalnis and Tanjot Gill, on their 4th place finish (of 11 teams in the undergraduate division) at the 14th Intercollegiate Animal Welfare Judging and Assessment Competition at Michigan State University on Nov 22-23, 2014. This was […]

Animal Myths From Around the World

National Geographic and Dr. David Fraser muse over animal myths from around the world here.

Social housing reduces neophobia in dairy calves

Check out our latest paper “Complex social housing reduces food neophobia in dairy calves,” recently published in the Journal of Dairy Science and authored by PhD student Joao Henrique Cardoso Costa, colleague Rua Daros and professors Nina von Keyserlingk and Dan Weary. Calves showed reduced responses to novel foods when housed with other calves and […]

“The Ticking Clock: Addressing Farm Animal Welfare in Emerging Countries”

Over the last decade many emerging economies, and in particular Brazil, have established themselves as major players in global food animal production. A new paper, co-authored by our own Nina von Keyserlingk and published in the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, examines the state of farm animal welfare in these countries.

Photo: By CAFNR @ University of Missouri [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

New research published on attitudes to pasture access for dairy cows

A paper co-authored by the AWP’s Cathy Schuppli, Nina von Keyserlingk, and Dan Weary has been recently published in the J. of Animal Science. The paper, entitled “Access to Pasture for Dairy Cows: Responses from an Online Engagement,” examined the perceptions of Canadian and American participants on the importance of pasture access for dairy cows, and […]

Article Featured on Springer Animal Sciences Facebook Page

Recent AWP alumna Sara Dubois had article selected by the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Wildlife Research as the highlight of the August issue. // Post by Springer Animal Sciences.

UBC Dairy participates in Agassiz Fall Fair

Last weekend, our students at the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre celebrated the 110th Agassiz Fall Fair and 66th Corn Festival in Agassiz by entering the annual parade – this year, our float had the theme “MOOlti-COW-tural” to highlight the diversity of students from many different countries that are studying here!