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Heat stress can negatively impact the sustainability and productivity of a dairy production system even in temperate regions such as Canada. A possible mitigation strategy is to use genetic selection to improve heat tolerance. However, it is difficult to study heat stress using weather station data due to the sparsity of stations and inconsistencies within datasets. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the impact of heat stress and to estimate genetic parameters for heat tolerance in Canadian Holsteins using an alternative meteorological data resource known as NASA POWER.

The Animal Biosciences Graduate Student Council invites you to participate in a FREE Spring Hobbie Series. This event will consist of three guided workshops, each building off the last activity. However, you may choose to attend only the ones that interest you!  Spring Hobbie Series Line-up:  1st Event: June 2nd at 12:30 PM 

The Centre for Nutrition Modelling (a Centre of Excellence with Animal Biosciences) would like to invite you to attend the JUNE Installment of the 2021 ‘Virtual’ Nutrition Seminar Series. Each month in 2021 a different lab within the Nutrition group will share their exciting new research in a dynamic virtual manner. Please check your email for the MS Teams link and feel free to forward the invite to industry partners or others who may be interested. In June we bring you:

The Canadian Poultry Science Network and the Poultry Innovation Partnership are pleased to present the first annual Canadian Poultry Research Forum.  The forum will bring together students and research practitioners for a virtual experience featuring the latest in research across Canada, social networking and an exciting, interactive poster and trade show experience. We plan to have a job board for industry and academic positions. The event will be held virtually June 21-23, 2021 beginning at 9am MT (11am ET).  

The Canadian Poultry Science Network and the Poultry Innovation Partnership are pleased to present the first annual Canadian Poultry Research Forum.  The forum will bring together students and research practitioners for a virtual experience featuring the latest in research across Canada, social networking and an exciting, interactive poster and trade show experience. We plan to have a job board for industry and academic positions. The event will be held virtually June 21-23, 2021 beginning at 9am MT (11am ET).  

The Animal Biosciences Graduate Student Council invites you to participate in a FREE Spring Hobbie Series. This event will consist of three guided workshops, each building off the last activity. However, you may choose to attend only the ones that interest you!  Spring Hobbie Series Line-up:  1st Event: June 2nd at 12:30 PM 

The objective of this dissertation was to identify different management and nutritional factors that help to im-prove weaning success of dairy calves fed higher levels of milk. The first study was focused on comparing the effects of two gradual weaning programs when calves were fed two levels of milk on feed consumption, growth, and health. In general, the two gradual weaning programs resulted in similar performance and health outcomes, while both milk level treatments resulted in similar feed intakes and performance postweaning.

The Animal Biosciences Graduate Student Council invites you to participate in a FREE Spring Hobbie Series. This event will consist of three guided workshops, each building off the last activity. However, you may choose to attend only the ones that interest you!  Spring Hobbie Series Line-up:  1st Event: June 2nd at 12:30 PM 

MAY Installment of the 2021 ‘Virtual’ Nutrition Seminar Series, hosted by the Centre for Nutrition Modelling (Animal Biosciences Department). Each month in 2021 a different lab within the Nutrition group will share their exciting new research in a dynamic virtual manner. Please feel free to forward these seminar invites to industry partners or others who may be interested. In May we bring you: Application of modelling to solve animal production system problems   Ellis Lab

The welfare of pigs during transport depends on many factors, but trailer design plays a key role in transport-related stress. Pot-belly trailers are commonly used for swine transportation in Canada but are criticized because of steep internal ramps causing difficulties during loading/unloading, and poor internal microclimate conditions. This results in a greater proportion of dead-on-arrivals and fatigued pigs compared to trailers using flat-deck designs.