Sabine Scully

Teagasc Walsh Scholar-PhD student working on Holoruminant… ruminant microbiomes, animal health & welfare…playing with cows & looking at bugs…🐮🐄 🧫🦠

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

I feel like these types of analyses also choose not to take into consideration that Ireland, until the 1920s, was a colonized country that was completely decimated of their natural resources while the countries they are compared too were the ones doing irreparable damage 🤔

[Ola Løkken Nordrum @OlaLN]

Ireland has the worst ecological integrity in the EU.

Only a few percentage of Ireland is covered by healthy ecosystems.

By the looks of things, the creation of a new national park in Kerry will do little to change this for the better. #BiodiversityCrisis

🗺️: @RewildingEurope

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

@SineadMWaters @PaulSmid94 @TeagascAB @teagasc @ucdvetmed Congrats to you too! Having great supervisors always helps!

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

Absolutely delighted to get the email from @FrontiersIn this morning that the first paper from my PhD, investigating the 💩microbiota of dairy calves and diarrhoea during the pre-weaning period has been published!!! @holoruminant @ucdvetmed @teagasc

https://t.co/zUXG8JG4KP

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

Fantastic few days at #BSAS2024! Big thank you to all involved @BSAS_org for organizing this, & an even bigger thank you for awarding me the President’s Prize for my work on the faecal microbiota and calf scour! So humbled and grateful! @ucdvetmed @holoruminant @teagasc

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

@laurajaynetenna Thank you!!!!

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

I am so grateful to have been part of such a great session at #BSAS2024 … so many interesting things coming out of research for better early life care of #livestock

[Dr Laura Tennant @laurajaynetenna]

Absolutely pleasure to chair the young stock session at #BSAS2024 in Belfast.

Fantastic papers presented and lots of good conversations

Roll on BSAS2025

@BSAS_org @TrouwNutr_GB

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

Overheard @DublinAirport this morning:

*Young girl:* so we aren’t renting a car??? (Bit of attitude, but more confused about it)
*man (who I assume is her father)*: no we only get rental cars in countries that drive on the right side of the road

🤦🏻‍♀️😂😂😂

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

Big, exciting things! Got to go back to France 🥰 and talk about calf scours at the @eaap2023Lyon and wrapped it all up with a stage transfer assessment with @ucdvetmed today

[HoloRuminant H2020 @holoruminant]

Sabine Scully held her presentation "Effect of colostrum source and calf breed on diarrhoea incidents in pre-weaned dairy calves"🐮🥛

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

May be of interest to some people out there, conversations around what to do to make sure our animals safe during emergency situations needs to be a bigger part of all the safety trainings we do in animal agriculture https://t.co/wjkghskZow

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

big thanks to @MarieORourke16, luca & Suzanne for all their help sampling these sweet baby angels today, 22 calves got their 1wk & 3wk samplings done, and 6 expectant mothers recruited 🤞 they have heifers! @M1chelleStaff @holoruminant @ucdvetmed @uccBEES

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

Good thing I hoard dry ice coolers…

[Paul Smith @PaulSmid94]

Literally a truck load of samples collected over the last 2wks by the @teagasc @holoruminant team from calves and their dams at birth. Straight up to @TeagascBeef for safe keeping! @M1chelleStaff @SabsScully @uccBEES @ucdvetmed 🐄

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

What a great day! 5 heifer calves recruited for @holoruminant longitudinal study on dairy 🐄 microbiome development rounding us out at 45 calves in 2 weeks. And some good snuggles and scritches @PaulSmid94 @M1chelleStaff @ucdvetmed @uccBEES

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

@1noeloconnor I’ll let you know as soon as it’s on it’s way

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

7 days in, 26 dams sampled, 26 calves sampled, 58 vaginal swabs done, and one eye twitch later… we are well on our way to meet our numbers for #calving2023 @holoruminant WP2 @ucdvetmed @uccBEES

[Michelle Stafford @M1chelleStaff]

Sampling of newborn calves and their Dams is well underway, as part of @holoruminant 🐮

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

@1noeloconnor @holoruminant @ucdvetmed @uccBEES Last year I collected samples from healthy & scours calves & should have some interesting stuff coming soon 😉 rn we’re sampling for a longitudinal study on the development of various microbiomes of different body sites on dairy heifers & they’ll be followed until they’re 100 DIM

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

@1noeloconnor I might be doing a PhD in cattle but sheep stole my heart yeaaaaaars ago so I understand the addiction 😂😂😂 we’re just gluttons for punishment

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

@1noeloconnor I might skip calving this year and come down for lambing instead 😍😍

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

@PaulSmid94 @holoruminant Don’t worry Paul we’ll just pop them back in when you come down

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

New year, new batch of heifer calves to sample and follow to better understand the development of their microbiomes! Of course they decided to drop early but thankfully we made it down in time to catch them! @PaulSmid94 where are you?? @holoruminant

[Sabine Scully @SabsScully]

153 fecal samples done and dusted. #extracted the DNA and ready for sequencing… 1 step closer to exploring the fecal #microbiome and #scours in #calves for building pathways to more sustainable production systems @holoruminant @ucdvetmed 💪💪💪