Animal Science Review

If the world was enriched and homogenized, we would actually have a very good idea of what the microbiological community within looks like. Fortunately, the world is much more complex than the miniature environments we culture in the lab, and high throughput sequencing (HTS) is allowing us to fully appreciate micro-biodiversity. As new information becomes [...]

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Circadian rhythms and jet lag.  There, cyclic crowing behavior explained. Quite a lot of people are discussing this study from Japan examining the effect of light on the crowing behavior of roosters. The authors observed several birds in experimental conditions where light intensity and duration were controlled, taking observations with audio recorders and cameras. The [...]

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Here’s the final portion of my paper: Do organic animal operations encourage management decisions that negatively impact animal welfare? If you’ve missed the other posts, you can check out part 1, part 2,  or read the entire paper here.   _____________________________________________________ Conflict Between the Organic Approach and Welfare Ideals Despite measures taken to promote prevention, [...]

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For my senior ethics class, I chose to write about an issue everyone has an opinion on, from granola folks at the co-op telling me to watch Food Inc. to farmers complaining about the outbreak of upper respiratory disease from those untreated organic herds sneezing over the fence. I actually ended up changing my own [...]

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Hey all, taking a quick break from blogging as I’m busy with a personal research project I’ll report here on ASR soon, but I wanted to add a quick post for anyone subscribing to RSS or wondering if I’m still alive. This article on ScienceDaily details a study going on at the University of Georgia, [...]

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