Livestock

The School is an international leader in research on subtropical cattle production and health, including reproduction and genetics.

Project areas include:

• Reproductive performance in extensively farmed cattle: Professor Michael McGowan, Dr Gry Boe-Hansen, Honoraray Professor Jonathan Hill
• Respiratory disease in feedlot cattle: Professor Michael McGowan, Dr Tamsin Barnes
• Contraceptive vaccines for cattle: Professor Michael McGowan
• Cattle sperm quality: Dr Gry Boe-Hansen
• Cattle genetics, including diagnosis of inherited diseases: Professor Michael McGowan, Professor Jenny Seddon
• Bone metabolism and increasing skeletal growth in cattle: Dr Lisa Kidd, Dr David McNeill
• Reviewing diagnostic technologies for monitoring animal health: Dr John Alawneh, Professor Michael McGowan
• Calf diarrhoea: Dr John Alawneh
• Treatment of mastitis in lactating dairy cows: Dr John Alawneh, Dr Justine Gibson, Associate Professor Rachel Allavena
• Lameness in dairy cows: Dr John Alawneh
• Probiotics in livestock using animal nutrition studies and metagenomics: Dr David McNeill
• Improved management of cattle phosphorusstatus: Dr David McNeill