A5005020303- Animal health and immunology
- Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Congenital Anomalies and Fetal Surgery
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Animal Nutrition and Physiology
- Vector-Borne Animal Diseases
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments
- Technology Use by Older Adults
Harper Adams University
2020-2022
University of Bristol
2016
For successful development and adoption of technology on dairy farms, farmers need to be included in the innovation process. However, design agricultural technologies usually takes a top-down approach with little involvement end-users at early stages. Living Labs offer methodology that involve throughout process emphasize importance understanding users' needs. Currently, exploration farmers' needs has been limited specific types (e.g., smartphone apps) adult cattle. The aim this study was...
Dairy calves must be fed appropriately to meet their nutritional needs, supporting optimal growth and development achieve the recommended target age at first calving (AFC) of 24 months. Traditional restricted milk feeding practices suppress growth, contribute negative welfare states may result in malnutrition immunosuppression. Despite more recent recommendations increase allowances for pre-weaned calves, remains a common practice. This study explored rationales behind calf protocols used by...
Replacement heifers are key to the future milking herd and farm economic efficiency but not always prioritised on dairy farms. Dairy enterprises comprised of components which compete for limited resources; scarce information about calf performance associated losses (potential) gains farms can mean calves less in management investment decisions. The research reported this paper explored personal contextual factors that influence decisions Forty in-depth, semi-structured interviews were...
Calf morbidity and mortality rates are often high in dairy herds, raising animal welfare concerns negatively affecting farm economic efficiency future performance. Disease prevention is critical to maintain calves good health, but interventions dependent upon the persons conducting them. This paper explores perceptions of farmers, workers, veterinarians, other advisors on management calfhood disease farms England. Participants were recruited using purposive "snowball" sampling, resulting 40...
Appropriate management decisions are key for sustainable and profitable beef dairy farming. Data-driven technologies aim to provide information which can improve farmers' decision-making practices. However, data-driven have resulted in the emergence of a "data divide", there is gap between generation use data. Our study aims further understand data divide by drawing on social practice theory recognise emergence, linkages, reproduction youngstock practices cattle farms UK. Eight focus groups...
Abstract Farmers’ recognition of health and welfare problems, their responses to related intervention programmes, such as those reduce injurious pecking in hens, directly influence the animals care. Changing can be achieved through a re-positioning social drivers well from individual behaviour. This study begins by considering how certain levels plumage damage become normalised while others might considered unacceptable. Drawing upon in-depth farmer interviews, investigates management...
Abstract Good colostrum management can confer protective immunity to newborn calves, making calves less susceptible infectious disease, and fundamentally improving both their short- long-term health, welfare productivity. Industry recommendations commonly refer ‘The Three ‘Q's’ of management: the need for receive sufficient ‘Quantity’ high ‘Quality’ ‘Quickly’ after birth; some also include ‘sQueaky clean’ ‘Quantification passive transfer’. However, research date suggests that failure...