Department of Animal Environment and Health

The aim of the department is to increase knowledge about the relationship between housing, management, feeding, housing environment, animal health, behaviour, animal welfare and environmental hygiene. This will be achieved through research, education and research information.

In this way, the department will contribute:

* to prevent and reduce health and welfare problems in domestic animals and

* to promote the development of an animal and environmentally friendly animal housing, that contribute to a sustainable food production.

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Photo: The research building, SLU, Skara and a photo of Götala research farm.

What is happening at the department:

11-12 oct - The PhD course "Equitation science" is having their third meeting.
9 nov - The PhD course "Animal ethics" starts.
12 nov - Dissertation: Viktor Almqvist - "Who you gonna call? Examining the possibilities of remote veterinary meat inspection", SLU, VHC, meetingroom Tannengris, Uppsala, at 13.00 (also with livestreaming).

New publications from the department!

Östman, Ö., Fjälling, A., Ovegård, M., Lunneryd, S.-G., Röcklinsberg, H., Gräns, A., Vidakovic, A., Kiessling, A., 2021. Feasibility and potential for farming and conditioning of wild fish fed with by-catches in Sweden. SLU, Inst för akvatiska resurser, Aqua reports 2021:9.
Brajon, S., Munhoz Morello, G., Capas-Peneda, S., Hultgren, J., Gilbert, C., Olsson, A., 2021. All the pups we cannot see: Cannibalism masks perinatal death in laboratory mouse breeding but infanticide is rare. Animals, 11, 2327, doi: 10.3390/ani11082327.
Ekström, A., Sundell, E., Morgenroth, D., McArley, T., Gårdmark, A., Huss, M., Sandblom, E., 2021. Cardiorespiratory adjustments to chronic environmental warming improve hypoxia tolerance in European perch (Perca fluviatilis). Journal of Experimental Biology, 224, jeb241554, doi: 10.1242/jeb.24.241554.
Hirsch, E.N., Andersson, M., Loberg, J., Lidfors, L.M., 2021. Development of existing scoring systems to assess behavioural coping in shelter cats. Applied Animal Behaviour Sciencen, 234, doi: 10.1016/j.applanim.2020.105208.
Holmström., K., Kumm, K.-I., Andersson, H., Nadeau, E., Arvidsson Segerkvist, K., Hessle, A., 2021. Economic incentives for preserving biodiverse semi-natural pastures with calves from dairy cows. Journal for Nature Conservation, 62, doi: 10.1016/j.jnc.2021.126010.
Wilhelmsson, S., Andersson, M., Arvidsson, I., Dahlqvist, C., Hemsworth, P.H., Yngvesson, J., Hultgren, J., 2021. Physical workload and psychosocial working conditions in Swedish pig transport drivers. International Journal of Insdustrial Ergonomics, 83, doi: 10.1016/j.ergon.2021.103124.

Published: 01 March 2021 - Page editor: gunilla.jacobsson@slu.se

Department of Animal Environment and Health

Head of Department: Anders Karlsson, tel. +46 511-67100.
Deputy Head of Department: Anna Wallenbeck, tel. 018-674504.
Director of Undergraduate Studies: Lisa Lundin, tel. +46 18-671650.
Director of Postgraduate Studies: Katarina Arvidsson Segerkvist, tel. +46 511-67144.
Webmaster: Gunilla Jacobsson, tel. +46 511-67217

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