It took 4+ years (and a pandemic) to get here. Thank you to all who supported me on this journey!! 🐥🥰🐥

It's great and soooo important to keep up the communication between the different sectors of egg production 😊

Looking forward to it!

Yay! The first publication coming from my thesis 😁 So super happy and proud! Thank you Tina and Dr Jennifer Ellis

🐤Exciting news!!! 🐤 The first pre-print from my Ph.D. project is out, and the paper is currently under review by Scientific Reports. Read, comment, and learn about laying hen locomotory development in different rearing aviaries!

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: [email protected]

New paper out! 🐤🐤🐤 The first of our series on laying hen rearing in aviaries: Brown and white-feathered pullets use spatial opportunities to different degrees! frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… Made possible by Ontario Agricultural College , Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare and our collaborators at McGill University

It is done... all the boxes are checked... PhD converred! 👩🏻‍🎓 Today I was hooded by Tina Widowski (undisputed best advisor ever)! Thank you, all who supported me!! 🥰 Ontario Agricultural College Animal Biosciences Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare #guelphgrad

Greatly enjoyed the honour of giving a plenary talk on strain differences in fear behaviour of laying hens 🐔 European Symposium on Poultry Welfare with Tina Widowski! Chickens are sooooo fascinating! Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare Ontario Agricultural College

Yay!

New paper alert! 🐤🐤🐤 Take home message: 3D-locomotion skills of laying hen pullets improve with more complex rearing environments, even more so in white than brown-feathered birds! Animal Biosciences Ontario Agricultural College

My newest publication! 🐤🐤🐤 Take home message: White pullets learn the location of a reward faster than brown-feathered ones, and so do pullets reared in high or intermediate environmental complexity compared to conventional cages. Ontario Agricultural College Animal Biosciences

Can’t scientist from developing countries travel for international conferences? Three Nigerians got a fully funded travel grant to attend the #ISAE2023 conference in Estonia but denied on the premise that they are not likely to return to the country. This calls for attention.

Tina Widowski and I had the opportunity to write about a topic very near and dear to my heart 🩷 : The importance of the rearing environment for laying hens 🐥! 1000 thanks to Feedstuffs! informamarkets.turtl.co/!rUYN78/ Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare Animal Biosciences

🔔 New publication on the fear behaviour in young chickens 🐤🐔🐥 raised with different early life environmental complexity | Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10… Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare Animal Biosciences

Starting my new postdoc with Dr Grégoy Bédécarrats! 😁 I'm super excited for this collaboration of specialties, being a welfare scientist in a reproductive physiology lab! Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare Animal Biosciences

🧡 Reunited in Florence, Italy! 🧡 At the 9th International Conference on the Welfare Assessment of Animals at Farm Level (WAFL) #WAFL2024 Meeting my academic twin Rosie Whittle from Guelph Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare Animal Biosciences

🚨New paper alert! 🐥🐔 🐤A complex rearing environment has life-long benefits for the bone health of laying hens! sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Campbell Centre for the Study of Animal Welfare Animal Biosciences