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Abstracts: Caffeine: A potential strategy to improve survival of neonatal pigs and sheep

June 30, 2021June 1, 2021adminLeave a Comment

Caffeine is commonly used to treat pre-and postnatal injuries, including apnoea in premature infants, as well as neurological impairment caused by hypoxia or asphyxiation often associated with difficult birthing. As an adenosine antagonist, caffeine is metabolised rapidly and transported into many tissues. Caffeine stimulates the brain respiratory centre, improving respiratory function in immature infants or […]

Kiwi Post: Mark Bryan writes from NZ

June 27, 2021June 1, 2021adminLeave a Comment

New Zealand’s biggest earners are tourism and agriculture- in particular, livestock agriculture. Nobody needs reminding that tourism hasn’t been all that popular – or easy- for the past 12 months. But agriculture has never been more important. COVID has highlighted the precariousness of our global economy. Our supply chains are disrupted, and global food security […]

Face To Face: Nicole Rojas Marin lights the way in the wake of disasters

June 24, 2021June 1, 2021adminLeave a Comment

The summer of 2019-2020 will long be remembered in Australia as a dark and desperate time. Mere months before the world was engulfed by a global pandemic, much of our country was aflame. By the end of January 2020, more than 5 million hectares of land had been burned in New South Wales alone, including […]

Abstracts: Development of an ethogram/guide for identifying feline emotions

June 22, 2021June 1, 2021adminLeave a Comment

Background: An accurate assessment of feline behaviour is essential in reducing the risk of handler injury and evaluating/improving feline welfare within veterinary practices. However, inexperience and/or suboptimal education in feline behaviour may cause many veterinary professionals to be ill equipped for this. In addition, busy veterinary professionals may not have time to thoroughly search the literature […]

New age chicks for better gut health?

June 19, 2021June 1, 2021adminLeave a Comment

Researchers at The University of Queensland are investigating the benefits of essential oils for animal welfare, productivity and sustainability in the Australian chicken meat industry. “The most critical period in a broiler chick’s life is the first hours after hatching,” nutritional chemosensing scientist and former veterinarian, Eugeni Roura, from the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and […]