Sarah Adcock
Email: sarah.adcock@wisc.edu
Education Ph.D., Animal Behavior, University of California, Davis, California, 2020. M.S., Cognitive and Behavioral Ecology, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, 2014. B.S., Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, 2012. Research Hot-iron disbudding is a routine husbandry procedure to prevent horn growth in dairy calves, but is acutely painful. For my doctoral research, I conducted a series of experiments to understand what calves experience during the healing period. I found that pain is present for weeks after disbudding, highlighting the need to refine or avoid this painful procedure. Before my PhD, I conducted my MSc research on miniature pigs, characterizing the relationships between stress, cognition, sex, and personality. I am now an Assistant Professor in Animal Welfare in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For more information, please visit: https://animalwelfare.cals.wisc.edu/ |