We just received funding for a 5 year project concerning the use of Information and Communication Technology for growing pigs. Here is a cutting from the press release of Århus UniversitySensors, CCTV and chips find their way into the pig house for the sake of health and welfare in pigs. A new re... .. read more..
The paper describing Heidi Mai-Lis Andersen's study is now available from the home page of Applied Animal Behaviour Science. The study was concerned about the use of an ear skin temperature sensor as indicator of well-being in slaughter pigs. The manuscript was submitted at the start of the year.... .. read more..
As mentioned in the previous post the article about rooting materials has been accepted. In addition, the accompanying methodological paper mentioned here has now been printed. U. Halekoh, E. Jørgensen, M. B. Jensen, L.J. Pedersen, M. Studnitz, and S. Højsgaard. Ranking of simultaneously presente... .. read more..
The paper describing the results from the choice experiments with rooting materials described here as now been accepted for publication Applied Animal Behaviour Science, after one revision round. I expect that the paper will be available online within a couple of month, but actual publication wil... .. read more..
I have changed the image in the right panel from the winter image from Bruunshaab to an image taken here at Foulum in the spring. The image shows a batch of frog eggs in the pond close to our office building. I have never seen such a large concentration of eggs before. Unfortunately, the water le... .. read more..
A paper describing Heidi Mai-Lis Andersen's study about the use of an ear skin temperature sensor as indicator of well-being in slaughter pigs has been submitted to Applied Animal Behaviour Science. Heidi is employed in the research and development department at SKOV A/S, and the paper is part of... .. read more..
The paper submitted to Preventive Veterinary Medicine that was described here with S.S. Nielsen as main author has now been published. S.S. Nielsen, N. Toft, E. Jørgensen, and B.M. Bibby. Bayesian mixture models for within-herd prevalence estimates of bovine paratuberculosis based on a continuous... .. read more..
A paper describing the effect of floor heating on behaviour and physiology during farrowing has been submitted to Physiology and Behavior. The paper was written as part of the project concerning loose housing systems for farrowing sows. My contribution was mainly concerned with the hormonal profi... .. read more..
A paper describing the results from the choice experiments with rooting materials has been submitted to Applied Animal Behaviour Science. The statistical method described in the paper about ranking of choice options was developed to analyze the results from this experiment. As mentioned previousl... .. read more..
Today I received the formal letter from Århus University concerning the fusion of our research institute with the university per January the first. They wrote, that I will receive another letter in the near future from the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries concerning the formal details ... .. read more..