Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science (VH)

The Swedish Livestock Research Centre offers housing for research and teaching. The facility includes dairy cattle, pigs and poultry. All the undergraduate and graduate students at the faculty will

Mastitis or udder inflammation is a common production disease in dairy herds, causing compromised animal welfare and entails economic losses for the farmer. Now, a new article on different udder

Mastitis or udder inflammation is a common production disease in dairy herds, causing compromised animal welfare and entails economic losses for the farmer. Now, a new article on different udder

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

The events consist of short lectures about SLU research. The university’s research dares to question established knowledge and aims to solve real problems for a living world. Everyone is welcome.

Presentation Head of Administration for the institution since January 2021. Her vision is to simplify the administration as much as possible, it should be easy to do things right. What motivates Elin

We perform research, teach and inform about animal structure and function in health, stress, disease and production, from molecular mechanisms to whole animals.

Dissertation: Physiological and behavioural responses to fear and discomfort in dogs and goats fun-vh@slu.se Louise Winblad von Walter defends her thesis "Physiological and behavioural responses to

The Department conducts research and teaching about nutrition and management of several animal species such as cattle, pigs, poultry, reindeer, fish, horses and dogs.

EasyMining, the Swedish University of Agricultural Services (SLU) and Lantmännen have started an innovative project testing the precipitated calcium phosphate (PCP) recovered in the Ash2Phos-project

As usual, chair Rauni Niskanen offered a solid agenda at the first meeting of the year. The annual report with the 2020 figures was presented to the faculty. SLU and the faculty have new strategies

Dissertation: Free faecal liquid in horses - faecal composition and associations with feeding and management fun-vh@slu.se Katrin Lindroth defends her thesis "Free faecal liquid in horses - faecal