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Breeding Focus 2021 - Improving Reproduction
The fourth in the Breeding Focus series was held in Armidale in May 2021 and provided an opportunity for exchange between industry and research across a number of agricultural sectors to identify and explore genetic and management strategies to improve reproduction.
Topics presented at the workshop have been published as a book "Breeding Focus 2021 – Improving Reproduction” which is available for purchase. Abstracts of the papers can be downloaded as can individual chapters.
Chapter 1 Review: Cattle fertility and genetic improvement of fertility in developing countries Eva M. Strucken
Chapter 2 Reproductive challenges in abalone breeding Natasha A. Botwright, Omar Mendoza-Porras, Roger Chong, Ya Zhang and Carmel McDougall
Chapter 3 Opportunities from understanding health and welfare of sows Laura Vargovic, Jo Harper and Kim Bunter
Chapter 4 Saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) embryo survival: risk factors Sally R. Isberg and Peter C. Thomson
Chapter 5 New phenotypes for genetic improvement of fertility in dairy cows Irene van den Berg, Melissa Stephen, Phuong N. Ho, Mekonnen Haile-Mariam, Claire Phyn, Susanne Meier, Chris Burke, Nicole Steele and Jennie E. Pryce
Chapter 6 The influence of bull fertility on beef herd productivity Laercio R Porto-Neto, John Bertram, Marina R S Fortes, Pamela Alexandre, Michael McGowan, Ben Hayes and Antonio Reverter
Chapter 7 Improving reproductive performance in pigs Jo-Anne Harper, Kim Bunter and Laura Vargovic
Chapter 8 Breeding for improved fertility of honey bees E.A. Frost, N.C. Chapman, R.G. Banks and S. Hermesch
Chapter 9 Examining the relative importance of female reproduction in beef breeding herds when fully accounting for production costs Bradley J Walmsley
Chapter 10 Improving reproduction in ewes Kim Bunter, Andrew Swan and Daniel Brown
Chapter 11 Selection for reproductive efficiency in turkeys and broiler chickens: egg production, hatchability and fertility
Bayode O. Makanjuola, Emhimad A. Abdalla, Christine F. Baes and Benjamin J. Wood
Chapter 12 Genetic improvement of cow reproduction in northern Australia beef cattle breeds Kirsty L. Moore, Matt L. Wolcott and David J. Johnston
Chapter 13 Climatic constraints facing sheep reproduction Gordon Refshauge and Simon de Graaf
Chapter 14 Lamb survival, a challenge for the decades Sabine Schmoelzl, Lynden Smith, Amellia Redfearn and Rachelle Hergenhan
Breeding Focus 2018 - Reducing Heat Stress
The third workshop in the Breeding Focus series was held in Armidale in September 2018 and looked at reducing heat stress in livestock, plants and aquaculture. The physiological and economic consequences of heat stress and strategies to reduce the impact of heat stress were presented.
Topics presented at the workshop have been published as a book "Breeding Focus 2018 – Reducing Heat Stress” which is available for purchase. Abstracts of the papers can be downloaded as can individual chapters.
Chapter 1 Climate, Weather and Water Services for Livestock Industries Jaclyn N. Brown and Alister Hawksford
Chapter 2 Genetic sensitivity of beef cattle to environmental variation Roberto Carvalheiro, Ben J. Hayes, Lucia G. Albuquerque and Stephen Moore
Chapter 3 Towards breeding for heat tolerance and resilience in beef cattle Gene Wijffels, Megan Sullivan, Stephen Anderson, Sally Stockwell, Russell McCulloch, Suzie Briscoe, Joseph Olm, Judy Cawdell-Smith and John Gaughan
Chapter 4 Heat stress impacts and responses in livestock production Rachelle Meyer, Ann-Maree Graham and Richard Eckard
Chapter 5 Summer mortality in molluscs: the genetic basis for resilience and susceptibility Brett P. Shiel, Ira R. Cooke, Nathan E. Hall, Nicholas A. Robinson and Jan M.
Strugnell
Chapter 6 Addressing heat stress in pome fruit Rebecca Darbyshire, Ian Goodwin, Lexie McClymont and Susanna Turpin
Chapter 7 The challenge of improving tolerance to heat stress in livestock species Kim L. Bunter, Bethany Bowring and Alison M. Collins
Chapter 8 A tool to breed for heat tolerant dairy cattle Thuy T. T. Nguyen, Josie B. Garner and Jennie E. Pryce
Chapter 9 Turning the heat up on independent culling in crop breeding Wallace A. Cowling and Li Li
Chapter 10 Breeding for reduced seasonal infertility and reduced response to heat stress in sows and boars Annika M. G. Bunz, Kim L. Bunter, Rebecca Morrison, Brian G. Luxford and Susanne Hermesch
Breeding Focus 2016 - Improving Welfare
The second in the Breeding Focus series was held in Armidale in September 2016 and brought together participants and speakers from a range of species and backgrounds to consider how welfare can be enhanced through management and selective breeding. Topics presented at the workshop have been published as a book "Breeding Focus 2016 – Improving Welfare” which is available for purchase. Abstracts of the papers are available as a pdf and individual papers can also be downloaded.
Chapter 1 How can we measure welfare of animals on farms? Andrew Fisher
Chapter 2 Breeding for welfare traits in dairy cattle
Jennie E. Pryce, Mary Abdelsayed and Michelle Axford
Chapter 3 Improving the temperament of Australian cattle and implications for
animal welfare
Sam F. Walkom
Chapter 4 Selection for immune competence in beef breeding programs modelled
on potential reductions in the incidence of bovine respiratory disease
Sonja Dominik and Brad C. Hine
Chapter 5 Breeding polled cattle in Australia
Natalie K. Connors and Bruce Tier
Chapter 6 Farming dinosaur cousins: the unique welfare challenges of farming
crocodiles
Sally R. Isberg
Chapter 7 Breeding for improved welfare of growing pigs
Susanne Hermesch
Chapter 8 Breeding sows better suited to group housing
Kim L. Bunter, Craig R.G. Lewis and Scott Newman
Chapter 9 Using genomic prediction for footrot resistance in sheep based on
case-control industry data
Cecilia Esquivelzeta-Rabell, Kim L. Bunter, Daniel J. Brown, Mark Ferguson
Chapter 10 Livestock breeding and welfare– reflections on ethical issues Imke Tammen
Breeding Focus 2014 - Improving Resilience
This international forum, hosted by AGBU and CSIRO, was developed to extend opportunity for exchange between industry, breeders and researchers in the livestock and aquaculture industries. Genetic improvement of resilience was the topic for Breeding Focus 2014, which was the first of an ongoing series of Breeding Focus.
Topics presented at the workshop have been published as a book “Breeding Focus 2014 – Improving resilience” which can be purchased from AGBU. Abstracts of the papers are available as a pdf and individual papers can also be downloaded.
Chapter 1 Breeding disease resilient pigs
Susanne Hermesch
Chapter 2 Inferring genetic resilience of animals to infectious pathogens – opportunities and pitfalls
Andrea B. Doeschl-Wilson and Graham Lough
Chapter 3 On-farm measures to monitor the health and immune status of pigs
Alison M. Collins
Chapter 4 Immune competence in livestock
Brad C. Hine, Bonnie A. Mallard, Aaron B. Ingham and Ian G. Colditz
Chapter 5 Performance and resilience of poultry in Thailand
Siriporn Tongsiri and M. Gilbert Jeyaruban
Chapter 6 Breeding Sydney rock oysters and its effects on resilience
Wayne A. O’Connor, Michael C. Dove, Emma L. Thompson, Laura M. Parker, Pauline M. Ross and David A. Raftos
Chapter 7 Breeding barramundi for resilience in the face of global climate change
Dean R. Jerry, Carolyn S.K. Smith-Keune, Lauren Hodgson and Jeremy van der Waal
Chapter 8 Genetic variation of handling resilience of Tasmanian Atlantic salmon affected by amoebic gill disease (AGD)
Richard S. Taylor, Peter D. Kube, Brad S. Evans and Nick G. Elliott
Chapter 9 Resilience, tolerance, robustness and genotype x environment interaction in Merino sheep breeding
Sonja Dominik and Andrew A. Swan
Chapter 10 Robustness as a breeding objective for sheep in New Zealand
Mark J. Young and Beverley C. Thomson
Chapter 11 Breeding for resilience and resistance in Merino sheep Sam F. Walkom and Daniel J. Brown
For further information, please contact Susanne (susanne.hermesch@une.edu.au)
