不良研究所

With a swing of her axe, St茅phanie B茅langer-Naud, FMT鈥�14, BSc(AgEnvSc)鈥�17, regularly bites out large chunks from totem-like wooden poles, and, handling a single buck saw, slices through pine logs the size of sewer pipes. She's no slouch when it comes to a chain saw, either. A professional female timbersports athlete, or lumberjill, she excels at an axe event called the underhand chop. It involves hacking at a log she stands on, and breaking it in two, which she is capable of completing in 31 seconds.

Congratulations to Dr. Pierre Lacasse, an Adjunct Professor in Animal Science, who has been made a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Animal Science (CSAS) in a recent annual meeting in Austin, Texas. The fellowship is awarded to CSAS members for truly outstanding contributions in any field of animal agriculture. Dr. Lacasse is a research scientist in Sherbrooke Research and Development Centre, AAFC.

Au premier abord, l鈥檌nitiative surprend聽: remplacer la moul茅e traditionnelle destin茅e 脿 la volaille par une alimentation 脿 base de brocoli ou de chou. Cette id茅e innovatrice a germ茅 en 2011 dans l鈥檈sprit des chercheurs du D茅partement des sciences animales de l鈥橴niversit茅 不良研究所, Shyam Bushansingh Baurhoo, professeur adjoint, et Arif Mustafa, professeur associ茅.

芦聽Notre objectif 茅tait de r茅duire l鈥檈ffarant gaspillage alimentaire en r茅cup茅rant des brocolis et des choux invendus pour les convertir en aliments pour la moul茅e聽禄, explique M.聽Baurhoo.

Congratulations to Jianguo (Jeff) Xia ( AnSci/Para), Guillaume Bourque (Director of Bioinformatics at the 不良研究所 & Genome Quebec Innovation Center) and Pierre-脡tienne Jacques (Sherbrooke) who were awarded $1.1 by Genome Canada earlier this week.

脌 24聽ans, Jessica St-Pierre est formelle聽: 芦聽Le fait d鈥檃voir grandi dans une ferme laiti猫re m鈥檃 pouss茅e 脿 choisir l鈥檃gronomie comme domaine d鈥櫭﹖udes. J鈥檡 ai d茅velopp茅 une v茅ritable passion! Pour moi, le bien-锚tre des vaches est une priorit茅.聽禄聽

Peut-on am茅nager une 茅table pour offrir un plus grand bien-锚tre aux animaux qui y passent leur vie聽? Des chercheurs se penchent sur la question.

Environ 90聽% des fermes laiti猫res au Qu茅bec recourent 脿 la stabulation entrav茅e. Selon cette formule, les vaches m猫nent toutes leurs activit茅s dans la stalle聽: elles y mangent, y dorment et s鈥檡 font traire. D鈥檕霉 l鈥檌mportance de leur fournir un espace favorable au bien-锚tre.

Some unique buffalo calves were born at the Ontario Buffalo Company in Stirling, ON. Their genetic mothers were only 4 months of age at the time their oocytes were collected by laparoscopy, fertilized and cultured in vitro and implanted one week later in adult recipients that carried the pregnancies to term. All procedures except the transfer to the recipient cows were conducted at the Large Animal Research Unit (LARU) in Macdonald Campus, under supervision of Drs.