Synergy for preventing damaging behaviour in group housed pigs and chickens

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Short Term Scientific Missions - 2016

The first call for STSM proposals had a deadline of 31 May 2016, and 5 applications were funded (see below). 

Name
Host
WG
 Project title
 Status
Katarina Pichova
Wageningen University
 1
Automatic recording of behavioural characteristics of high and low feather pecking laying hens
Alessia Diana
University of Leuven
 2
Precision Livestock farming as a tool to monitor ear and flank biting behaviours
Dimitar Nakov
University of Helsinki
 3
Assessment of the behaviour quality protocol in group housed pigs related to physical health
Elisabeth de Haas
Linkoping University
 1
Disseminating the epigenetic modulators of feather pecking in laying hens
Amin Sayyari
Uni. Strasbourg
 3
Consequences of chronic exposure to deoxynivalenol - behavioural studies in mice and analysis of physiological effects as a testing model for pigs