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!
Prof. Dan Weary receives 2014 Charles River Laboratories’ Excellence in Refinement Award
Prof. Dan Weary receives award in recognition of his work to enhance the well-being of laboratory animals.
Improving dairy cattle welfare in Chile
Dr. Pilar Sepúlveda-Varas, supervised by Dr. Nina von Keyserlingk, Professor in the Animal Welfare Program, successfully defended her Doctor of Veterinary Sciences in Chile.
Undergraduate Eugenia Kwok: Working with Community Dogs in Brazil
MITACS undergraduate scholar, Eugenia Kwok, will spend the summer in Brazil researching the welfare of stray dogs.
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 […]
Using Technology to Automatically Measure Social Behaviour
A new study, just published in the May issue of Journal of Dairy Science, explains how an electronic feed monitoring system, originally designed to record aspects of feeding behavior such as intake and time spent eating, can now be used to also estimate the number of competitive interactions that occur at the feed bunk. Competition […]
AWP Research Wins at North Carolina State Undergraduate Symposium
Erin Beasley, from North Carolina State University, recently completed a research internship with the Animal Welfare Program at the UBC Dairy Education and Research Center. Her project focused on studying the relationships between grooming behavior and illness in cows around the time of calving. She found that cows with a uterine infection used a mechanical […]