University LINKs Scheme
University of Guelph (Canada)
Dr Georgia Mason
Animal Sciences Department
Email: gmason@uoguelph.ca
The LINK scheme allowed Dr. Eric Troncy, from the University of Montreal, to attend Guelph’s annual Animal Welfare Research Symposium. A veterinarian whose research focuses on pain, Dr Troncy spoke on how to measure pain and treat or reduce it.
2013:
UFAW was very pleased to continue its on-going support for the University of Guelph’s Animal Welfare Research Symposium through the link scheme. This annual event, which took place in May, was organized by the Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare and featured presentations on a range of subjects including the welfare consequences of ‘boredom’, animal housing, early warning signs for injury and disease, and assessing and improving behaviour issues.
At the end of the symposium, prizes were awarded for the best presentation and best research poster. Hillary Dalton, University of Guelph, was awarded best poster for "Injurious pecking in domestic turkeys: development causes and potential solutions". Gosia Zobel, a PhD student from the University of British Columbia, won best presentation for her talk on working towards earlier identification of pregnancy toxemia in dairy goats during the last stages of pregnancy.
A more detailed report on the meeting can be found here: http://www.uoguelph.ca/oac/news/symposium-becomes-tradition-animal-welfare-research
Abstracts of all the presentations can also be found by visiting the University of Guelph’s webpage: http://www.uoguelph.ca/csaw/documents/
schedule.abstracts.final.2013.pdf
