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Laura Dixon

Dr

  • Auchincruive Estate, SAC Consulting, JF Niven Building

    KA6 5HW Ayr

    United Kingdom

20102021
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birds Agriculture & Biology
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broiler breeders Agriculture & Biology
animal welfare Agriculture & Biology
Pancreatic Polypeptide Medicine & Life Sciences
wood shavings Agriculture & Biology
environmental enrichment Agriculture & Biology

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Projects 2016 2021

Healthy animals, healthy food, healthy people

Dwyer, C., Langford, F., Mitchell, M., Dixon, L., Camerlink, I. & Turner, S.

University of Edinburgh

1/04/17 → 30/03/21

Project: Research

Welfare Consultancy

Dixon, L.

Rabbit Welfare Fund

1/06/19 → 31/10/19

Project: Research

Sleep behaviour as a novel indicator of animal welfare using laying hens as a model

Sandilands, V., Baker, L. & Dixon, L.

SRUC internal funding

25/09/17 → 31/03/19

Project: Research

Collaborative development of positive welfare indicators for farm assurance

Dwyer, C., Lawrence, A., Dixon, L., Mackay, J., Wemelsfelder, F. & Haskell, M.

14/03/16 → 31/03/18

Project: Research

Research Output 2010 2019

4 Citations (Scopus)
3 Downloads (Pure)

Welfare assessment of novel on-farm killing methods for poultry

Martin, J. E., Sandilands, V., Sparrey, J., Baker, L., Dixon, L. M. & McKeegan, D. E. F., 22 Feb 2019, In : PLoS ONE. 14, 2, e0212872.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
File
Poultry
Birds
Armadillos
Electroencephalography
Equipment and Supplies
1 Citation (Scopus)
6 Downloads (Pure)

Pancreatic PYY but not PPY expression is responsive to short-term nutritional state and the pancreas constitutes the major site of PYY mRNA expression in chickens

Reid, AMA., Wilson, PW., Caughey, SD., Dixon, LM., D'Eath, RB., Sandilands, V., Boswell, T. & Dunn, IC., 8 Jul 2017, In : General and Comparative Endocrinology. 252, p. 226 - 235 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
File
Peptide YY
Pancreatic Polypeptide
Pancreas
Chickens
Messenger RNA
12 Citations (Scopus)
14 Downloads (Pure)

Early experiences matter: a review of the effects of prenatal environment on offspring characteristics in poultry

Dixon, LM., Sparks, NHC. & Rutherford, KMD., 27 Nov 2015, In : Poultry Science. 95, 3, p. 489 - 499 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article

Open Access
File
poultry
life events
egg incubation
social environment
health status
8 Citations (Scopus)
4 Downloads (Pure)

Measuring motivation for appetitive behaviour: food-restricted broiler breeder chickens cross a water barrier to forage in an area of wood shavings without food

Dixon, LM., Brocklehurst, S., Sandilands, V., Bateson, M., Tolkamp, BJ. & D'Eath, RB., 2014, In : PLoS ONE. 9, 7 e102322

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access
File
wood shavings
broiler breeders
forage
chickens
birds
5 Citations (Scopus)

Conditioned place preference or aversion as animal welfare assessment tools: limitations in their application

Dixon, LM., Sandilands, V., Bateson, M., Brocklehurst, S., Tolkamp, BJ. & D'Eath, RB., Sep 2013, In : Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 148, 1-2, p. 164 - 176 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

animal welfare
birds
broiler breeders
testing
food choices