Dr Michael Cockram

Contact Information
Title Professor
Education B.Vet.Med. PhD. MRCVS
Email mcockram@upei.ca
Phone 9025666785
Fax 9025660823
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Professor
B.Vet.Med. PhD. MRCVS
Email: 
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Phone: 
9025666785
Fax: 
9025660823

Chair in Animal Welfare

Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Centre

 

Professor

Department of Health Management

 

 

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK
  • Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
  • PhD, Department of Animal Husbandry, University of Liverpool Veterinary School, UK.  

Background

  • Joined The Atlantic Veterinary College in August 2007
  • 1985-2007 Senior Lecturer in Animal Welfare, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK
    • BVM&S undergraduate veterinary course
      • Course organiser and lecturer for the animal husbandry course
    • MSc Course in Applied Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare
      • Convener of the Board of Examiners and module organiser and main lecturer for module on farm animal welfare
  • Experience of large and small animal veterinary practice.
  • Editor for Animal within section on Behaviour, Health and Welfare

Research

  • Transport and pre-slaughter management of farm animals
  • Animal welfare assessment
  • Sleep and fatigue in sheep

Publications

Book Chapter

Cockram, M.S. 2007. Sheep Transport. In Livestock Handling and Transport, 3rd Edition Edited by T. Grandin. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, Oxon, UK. P184-198.

Selected Publications

  • Cockram, M.S. 2007. Criteria and potential reasons for maximum journey times for farm animals destined for slaughter. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 106: 234-243.
  • Cockram, M. S., Baxter, E. M., Smith, L. A., Bell, S., Howard, C. M., Prescott, R. J. and Mitchell, M. A. 2004. Effect of driver behaviour, driving events and road type on the stability and resting behaviour of sheep in transit. Animal Science 79: 165-176.
  • Cockram, M.S. 2004. A review of behavioural and physiological responses of sheep to stressors to identify potential behavioural signs of distress in sheep Animal Welfare 13: 283-291.
  • Grigor, P.N., Cockram, M.S., Steele, W.B., Le Sueur, C.J., Forsyth, R.E., Guthrie, J.A., Johnson, A.K., Sandilands, V., Reid, H.W., Sinclair, C. and Brown, H.K. 2001. Effects of space allowance during transport and duration of mid-journey lairage period on the physiological, behavioural and immunological responses of young calves during and after transport. Animal Science 73:341-360.
  • Cockram, M.S., Kent, J.E., Jackson, R.E., Goddard, P.J., Doherty, O.M., McGilp, I.M., Fox, A., Studdert-Kennedy, T.C., McConnell, T.I. and O’Riordan, T. 1997. Effect of lairage during 24 h of transport on the behavioural and physiological responses of sheep. Animal Science 65: 391-402.
  • Cockram, M.S., Kent, J.E., Goddard, P.J., Waran, N.K., McGilp, I.M., Jackson, R.E., Muwanga, G.M. and Prytherch, S. 1996. Effect of space allowance during transport on the behavioural and physiological responses of lambs during and after transport. Animal Science 62: 461-477.

Further details with links to papers

 

 

Livestock driver training DVD

The effects of driver behaviour on the behaviour of livestock in transit

 

 

  

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