Past Events

Hello CGIL,     

On behalf of the ABSc Social Committee, we hope you all had a wonderful summer! It is time to celebrate the beginning of a new academic year and welcome the new graduate students in our department. On Friday, September 25th, we will host the Annual Golden Boot Soccer Cup and Annual ABSc BBQ. The event was a great success last years and we are counting on you to make it great again! 

Good afternoon CGIL,    

The Effects of Edible Pecking Blocks During Rearing and Laying on Feather Damage and Behaviour in Ontario Commercial Laying Hens

Impact of Selenium Supplementation on Ovine Colostrum Bioactives and Postnatal Health

Antimicrobial resistance has been called the silent pandemic — and one of Canada's leading voices on the topic is coming to OAC. Join us for a public seminar by Dr. Tim McAllister (Principal Research Scientist, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada), sharing key findings from the national GRDI One Health Antimicrobial Resistance program: a 33-scientist, 7-agency effort tackling resistance across the farm-to-fork continuum. Date: Thursday, September 10 Time: 9:30 a.m. — 1 hr talk + 30 min Q&A

Early-life Nutritional Programming of Growth, Metabolism, and Carcass Traits in Dairy-Beef Steers

EVALUATION OF ON-FARM PROCESSED FULL FAT SOYBEANS FOR USE IN PRACTICAL SWINE DIETS

Adapting dairy cows to automated milking systems: Influence of training and individual cow personality

Improving Swine Welfare and Production through Instance Segmentation-based Computer Vision and Machine Learning This thesis presents a computer-vision framework for monitoring group-housed pigs, pairing Deep-Learning-based Computer Vision with traditional Machine Learning to detect mounting behaviour and estimate live body weight from overhead video in barns. It also shows how validation design shapes reported accuracy, guiding how such systems should be evaluated.