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Cattle Behaviour & Welfare

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Inishmaan Suite
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

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Sponsored by IGFA

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This session presents a diverse range of papers relating to the behaviour and welfare of dairy calves and beef and dairy cattle with a major focus on effects of feeding and health

Session Sponsor & Speakers

Miss Francesca Johansen
Research Officer
Teagasc Moorepark

*STEVE BISHOP AWARD WINNER* Welfare pens for dairy cows in automatic milking systems – a descriptive study

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Dr Francesca Carnovale
Higher Scientific Officer (Sustainable Grassland Systems)
Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI)

Cow time budget: a novel method of data collation to support analysis of individual cow performance under pasture-based robotic milking systems

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Mr John Cook
Technical Consultant
World Wide Sires

Associations between daily lying times, transition cow management and early lactation health outcomes in multiparous dairy cows

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Ms Daria Baran
PhD Researcher
University Of Bristol

Social behaviour changes as a result of disease in dairy cows

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Mr Afsal Ayoob Khan
Phd Student
Rothamsted Research

Analysing the impact of the temperature-humidity index on Beef cattle welfare across three different systems

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Mrs Georgina Anna Wager-Jones
Phd Student And Data Scientist
Harper Adams University and Peacock Technology Ltd

A high-resolution analysis of feeding behaviours: do seconds matter in understanding feed intakes of beef heifers?

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Miss Sinéad O'Callaghan
Phd Candidate
Queen's University Belfast

Feeding behaviour in Holstein cattle fed different milk allowances as calves

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Ms. Luca van Dijk
Phd Student
Teagasc Moorepark

Feeding on the Moove: Assessing the effect of on-board feeding during long-distance road-ferry-road transport on the blood physiology of unweaned calves

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Dr Francesca Carnovale
Higher Scientific Officer (Sustainable Grassland Systems)
Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI)

Animal welfare incidents that occur during and after transport to Australian export abattoirs: an evaluation of government reports

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Chair

Gareth Arnott
Reader
The Queen's University of Belfast

Laura Boyle
Principal Research Officer
Teagasc Moorepark

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