Research Projects
- The formation of social relationships in pigs: implications for housing
and management practices
- Developing
management strategies to improve the welfare, health and performance of dairy herd replacements
- Strategies
for reducing lameness in Northern Ireland dairy herds
- Management and nutrition of
calves
during the neonatal period
- The key factors inherent in the welfare of growing pigs;
to
establish and assess the usefulness of measures of welfare.
- To assess how welfare
of
sows can be improved in loose housing systems.
- The effect of housing system on the
behaviour,
welfare and performance of beef cattle.
- Environmental and genetic influences on the
development
of adverse behaviour in pigs.
- Developing novel supplementation strategies for dairy
cows
to improve nutrient efficiency and animal health and welfare