Social ‘pain’ of separation versus physical pain from dehorning for dairy calves
Paper published in PLoS ONE asseses emotional response of dairy calves after separation from the dam.
Dairy Cattle Welfare Research in Brazil
Marina (Nina) von Keyserlingk, Professor in the Animal Welfare Program, along with one of the Program’s long-standing collaborators, Dr. Maria Jose Hoetzel from the Federal University of Santa Catarina, were recently awarded a CNPq Science Without Borders Grant. Over the next three years the grant will fund Nina’s biannual visits to Brazil and provide research […]
Attitudes to cow-calf separation research featured in latest issue of Progressive Dairyman
Beth Ventura, PhD student in the Animal Welfare Program, just published an article in Progressive Dairyman that describes views on the contentious practice of separating the dairy calf from the cow shortly after birth. The results show considerable opposition to early separation of cow and calf, but at least some of the concerns may be […]