Project:
Improving Animal Health and Welfare
Project Leader(s): Professor Sandra Edwards
Staff: Ilias Kyriazakis, Peter Rowlinson, Andrew Beard, Jonathan Guy, Abdul Chaudhry, Helen Edge, Kamara Scott, Catherine Douglas
Homepage: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/afrd/research/integratedagric/ImprovingAnimalHealthandWelfare.htm
Welfare Quality: Science and society improving animal welfare in the food quality chain (EU Framework 6)
Development of welfare indicators for farm assurance (Industry)
Development of a husbandry advisory tool for tail biting in pigs (Industry/RSPCA)
PIGCAS: Alternatives to castration in pigs (EU Framework 6)
Inducing Moult in layers without welfare compromise (YAS & Pakistan Higher Education Commission= HEC)
PIGSAFE: Re-designing the farrowing environment from first principles to optimise animal welfare and economic performance (Defra)
Essential fatty acids and piglet viability (Industry)
ECONWELFARE: Good animal welfare in socio-economic context: project to promote insight on the impact for the animal, the production chain and society of upgrading animal welfare standards (EU Framework 7)
PIGHEALTH: Risk factors for pig disease (Defra)
COREPIG: Prevention of selected diseases and parasites in organic pig herds by means of a HACCP based management and surveillance programme (EU Framework 6).
MITEeHEN: Non-chemical control of Red Mite in laying hen housing systems (Defra)
Evaluation of alternative control products for Dermanyssus gallinae in laying hens (Industry)
Control of Dermanyssus gallinae in Italian farms (Italian Ministry of Health)
Reduction of animal material for arthropod feeding (NC3Rs)
Nematode infections in sheep: Designing integrated parasite control strategies (BBSRC / Genesis Farady/ Industry)
The early detection of health and welfare problems in beef cattle through the automated recording and monitoring of behaviour (EBLEX)
Use of sensor technology to detect rumen acidosis and other health challenges in the periparturient dairy cow (National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada / Dairy Farmers of Ontario)