Division
Feed Science Division
Research Interests
Equine nutrition and management, especially forage production and utilization, silage and haylage production, conservation and utilization of forages in equine nutrition, hygienic quality of feeds, equine welfare in relation to feeding and nutrition.
Research Goal
Understand factors affecting forage nutritive and hygienic quality in relation to equine feeding, and how these factors affect the horse. Implement and use this knowledge to improve the forage production, conservation and utilization in equine nutrition and feeding, as well as for improving forage hygienic quality. Develop objective methods for the description of hygienic quality in forages.
Research Skills
Forage production experiments, equine feeding experiments, hygienic analysis of forages, sampling of forages
Activity in the scientific society
Secretary in the Horse Committee at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science (20 % of full time).
Taking part in the arrangement of our Nordic Feed Science Conference
Activity with stakeholders outside the scientific society
Takes part in Feed Science Network (Industry)
Member of the Group for Horse related issues at the Ministry for Rural Affairs, Sweden
Pedagogic experience
Pedagogic education up to supervision of PhD students
Basic pedagogic education and education in supervision of PhD-students
Teaching on bachelor-, master- and PhD-courses, supervision of students on all levels
Pågående forskningsprojekt:
| Title |
Project managers |
| Moulds and mycotoxins in wrapped forages for horses |
Cecilia Müller/Rolf Spörnly, Astrid Johansen, Bioforsk, Norge
PhD-student: Jessica Schenk |
| Glyceamic and insulinaemic response in horses fed diets differing in sugar content |
Johan Bröjer(huvudansvarig)
Kia Nostell
Cecilia Müller
|
| High quality silage for horses giving more profit and improved animal health |
Astrid Johansen, Bioforsk, Norge
Cecilia Müller
|
Publications:
Müller, C. E. 2005. Fermentation patterns of small-bale silage and haylage produced as a feed for horses. Grass and Forage Science 60, 109-118.
Müller, C.E. and Udén, P. 2007. Preference of horses for grass conserved as hay, haylage or silage. Animal Feed Science and Technology 132, 66-78.
Müller, C.E., Möller, J., Krogh-Jensen, S. & Udén, P. 2007. Tocopherol and carotenoid levels in baled silage and haylage in relation to horse requirements. Animal Feed Science and Technology 137, 182-197.
Müller, C.E., Pauly, T.M. & Udén, P. 2007. Storage of small bale silage and haylage – influence of storage period on fermentation variables and microbial composition. Grass and Forage Science 62 (3), 274-283.
Müller, C.E., von Rosen, D. and Udén, P. 2008. Effect of forage conservation method on microbial flora and fermentation pattern in forage and in equine colon and faeces. Livestock Science 119, 116-128.
Müller, C.E. 2009a. Long-stemmed vs. cut haylage in bales – Effects on fermentation, aerobic storage stability,
equine eating behaviour and characteristics of equine faeces. Animal Feed Science and Technology 152, 307-321.
Müller, C.E. 2009b. Influence of harvest date of primary growth on microbial flora of grass herbages and
haylage, and on fermentation and aerobic stability of haylage conserved in laboratory silos. Grass and Forage Science 64, 328-338.
Müller, C.E., Hultén, C., Gröndahl, G. 2011. Assessment of hygienic quality of haylage fed to healthy horses. Grass and Forage Science doi 10.1111/j. 1365-2494.2011.00803.x
Müller, C.E. 2011. Equine ingestion of haylage harvested at different plant maturity stages. Müller, C.E. 2011. Equine ingestion of haylage harvested at different plant maturity stages. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 134, 144-151.