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Projects - drs. IDE (Ingrid) van Dixhoorn

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  Creating Resilience in Pigs Through Artificial Intelligence (CuRly Pig TAIL)

  With current knowledge and practices tail biting seems hard to fully prevent. Tail biting is the result of reduced health or wellbeing of pigs, with a...
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  Breeding of polled cattle

  In order to stop structural dehorning different breeding programs will be examined. The primary focus is on inbreeding and robustness.
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  Prevalence, causes and prevention of bruises in Chilean beef cattle at slaughter, and its implication for animal welfare

  The main objective of this research is to identify and quantify generic measures that indicate the capability of individual animals (at a particular...