Jacob Brost

Congratulations to @BrostJacob for successfully defending your MSc thesis. 🥳🎊

A successful @PoultrySci 2023 conference! Three MSc students presented in the Behaviour and Wellbeing student competition with Grace Hong winning the category. Jacob Brost was awarded a PSA travel grant. 🎉 10 CCSAW members attended (2 profs, 2 postdocs and 6 MSc students)

My first co-authorship! An exciting read about flight, injuries, and some feathered friends!

CCSAW Research Symposium highlight! Prize winning talk! 🚨 Does daily energy expenditure change in laying hens with keel bone fractures? Catch up on this talk by @BrostJacob a MSc student in Dr Alexandra Harlander's lab! youtu.be/iSbtpN6GhCg

CCSAW symposium 2023 highlight! Check out Grace Hong's talk "What comes up must come down: Incline exercise and flight kinematics in laying hens" on YouTube. youtu.be/CD0G3jEOjdA

Big (belated) congratulations to Grace and Gillian for defending and submitting their 🐓 MSc thesis this semester! 🎊 @CCSAW_UofG

What an excellent symposium yesterday! I'm happy to announce the winners of our Student Competitions. Presentation winners: @AileenMacLellan (Mason Lab) and @BrostJacob (Harlander Lab) Poster winners: @LydiaConrad97 (Bergeron Lab) and Lauren Young (Mason Lab)

MSc and PhD positions available! Interested in "On-farm edible enrichment studies to reduce injurious pecking in pullets and laying hens"? Dr Alexandra Harlander is looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic students to join this project! Contact: aharland@uoguelph.ca

Congratulations to Alvaro Arroyave for receiving the UFAW Animal Welfare Student Scholarship Award for his work on "Use of pecking blocks as foraging enrichment for improvement". Alvaro is originally from Columbia and is completing an MSc by thesis with Dr Harlander.

Congratulations Dr @RosieWhittle3 for successfully defending your PhD thesis on "Maternal feed of omega-3 fatty acids on the behaviour and welfare of their offspring" 🥳 🎉🥂

Congratulations to Grace Hong (Dr Harlander's lab) for successfully defending her MSc Thesis! Great work on feather loss and exercise on laying hen flight muscles, keel bone health and aerial descent!

Last weekend graduate students with the CCSAW Student Chapter braved the elements in an exclusive behind the scene tour at @TheTorontoZoo! Thank you for hosting them as they learned about training methods and the enrichment used at the zoo to improve animal welfare. 🦒🦏🐍🐻‍❄️

Save the date! 25th January @ 12.30pm EST In person: PAHL 1812 Online: zoom.us/j/95334148361 Dr Nienke van Staaveren (@NStaaveren) will be kicking off our first research seminar of 2023 talking about "The importance of feathers in poultry welfare"

An im-peck-able showing by CCSAW graduate students @RosieWhittle3 (PhD candidate of Tina Widowski), @BrostJacob and MacKenzie Marmina (MSc students of Dr Alexandra Harlander) presenting their poultry welfare research at the @ABSc_UofG Graduate Student Symposium! 🐔 1/7👇

An international team of researchers has found that domesticated chickens were initially companions, not necessarily food. Read the Full Article Here: the-scientist.com/news-opinion/d…

It's conference season!! This week at @OE3Cofficial, hosted by @queensu, MSc student @BrostJacob presented work from his undergrad project in the Harlander lab, which looked at how injury can influence the landing velocity in laying hens 🐔

It’s a never ending stream of tabs @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdvoice

Want to hear about 20 new #AnimalWelfare studies in less than 2 hours? @CCSAW_UofG is hosting back-to-back 3-min talks online this coming Thursday. Support from @UFAW_1926. 🐔🐄🐷🐶

New paper from the Harlander lab, now out in #RSOS!! Lead authored by @GarantRenee, w/ co-authors from @ABSc_UofG, @umontana, & @georgefox, it found that damage to flight feathers significantly alters how laying hens use resources in aviaries 🐔🪶 #d1e1359" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

So thankful for the opportunity to share the wonderful research happening here @CCSAW_UofG and @UofGuelphOAC! ARS was a great place for my first international conference! @roslininstitute @NARFroslin