Dairy Cattle

AWP students present their research at the ADSA annual meeting

AWP students present their research at the ADSA annual meeting

Animal Welfare Program students gave 7 presentations at the American Dairy Science Association meeting in Cincinnati this past week. Pictured here are some of our students with Dan Weary and some friends from the UBC’s dairy reproduction research group and Alumni of the Animal Welfare Program.

UBC Dairy Education and Research Center Open House: July 20, 2019

UBC Dairy Education and Research Center Open House: July 20, 2019

The UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre is world renowned for its innovative dairy research. With our research we aim to improve the lives of dairy cows in practical ways. We also study how to optimize dairy cattle reproduction on farms. Did you know that calves can be optimistic as well as pessimistic? And that […]

Animal Welfare Program hosts national meeting

Animal Welfare Program hosts national meeting

Prof. David Fraser and graduate student Devon Wilson hosted a national meeting in Vancouver on April 30-May 1. The meeting brought together 17 experts on the marketing of dairy calves — animals that are born on dairy farms but are then sold to other farms that raise them for slaughter. The meeting included dairy farmers, […]

AWP in the News: Dairy Herd Management Reports on a recent study investigating competitive behaviour of cattle at the water trough