Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter

Dairy Cow Researcher @sruc 👩‍🔬
Animal Behaviour & Welfare 🐄
Animal Lover & Wanna be Ginger 🐶
Ireland is always home 🇮🇪
Views my own 💚

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

Check out Rosalique Skincare https://t.co/NIOHhOpLbd

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

@hjferg and I filmed with #BBCLandward last month talking about #dairycow #behaviour, #welfare and just some of the #research we're getting up to @SRUC. Our story will be on tomorrow's episode @BBCScotland at 8:30pm, replaying on @BBCTwo on Sunday at 8:15am 🐄🐄🐄

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

@nutrition_annie @HarperAdamsUni @CaraCam22 @bet_till @emily_forbes_ @CIELivestock1 already feels like a lifetime ago! #thegoodolddays

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

Although I wasn't presenting @BSAS_org, I was like a proud parent supporting @hjferg sharing some research we've been working on! The feasibility study will hopefully lead to an automated proxy measure for positive welfare in cows 🐄🐄🐄

[Dr Ellen Williams @DrElliephants]

Can I interest anyone in a PhD on animal behaviour and zoo conservation education with @HarperAdamsUni and @TwycrossZoo? I come with excellent references as a supervisor 😉😂 Details here: https://t.co/NjnYaj8aUm. Get in touch with Qs! @DrSamWard @AnneCarterPhD @naomilfrost

[Laura Boyle 🇮🇪 @LABoyle2]

More feeding places per cow gives better feeding synchrony - an indicator of #positivewelfare Also benefits of bedding, hay in diet and of course access to pasture. All achieved on only very few farms in this Italian study #EAAP2022 @EAAP_Cattle #cowwelfare

[Laura Boyle 🇮🇪 @LABoyle2]

Look how dirty footbath solutions are after walk through by 300 🐄 ! Means they’re pretty useless for lamest animals 😳 Maeve Palmer @QUBelfast #lameness #cowwelfare #digitaldermatitis #EAAP2022

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

@CaraCam22 So beautiful, congratulations 🥳

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

@Oxtale @nutrition_annie Sorry was on leave, and twitter is definitely work for me 😅🙈 I actually haven't come across this yet with any farms I've been on recently.... Emma Redfurn is always watching her cows, into the weird and wonderful and would probably know some like minded farmers??

[Pamela Ruegg, DVM, MPVM @topmilk]

I walked into this barn on a 300 cow commercial dairy farm yesterday and almost every cow came up to greet me. This tells me more about animal care than any formal metric for measuring welfare.

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

Very interesting and there's good discussion in the thread! Would be interested to try it 👌🏻 pitty homage to bovine is so far away! Anyone one know if any farms in Scotland producing ex dairy beef?

[Eveey Hunter @farmerevees]

Googled “best Sunday roast in london” this morning and some of the top ones are offering “ex dairy rump” etc as their speciality - is this a thing?! Is ex dairy meat now a luxury?!?! Where are they sourcing this 🤷🏼‍♀️ Genuinely intrigued by this…

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

Second paper from my PhD is now published and free to access on PLOSONE!! All about dairy cow motivation for open space lying options 🐄🐄🐄
#AcademicTwitter
#phdchat https://t.co/Yf3RDmBkzp

[SRUC @SRUC]

New research from SRUC has found more than a third of consumers are willing to pay a price premium for fresh pork products labelled ‘animal friendly’. They'll also pay more for pork labelled ‘local’ and ‘low-fat’, while an ‘organic’ label is less valued: https://t.co/KLzAY1slMn

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

It hurts different dropping data recording instruments "in field" when you're working in a cow shed with paper! #animalbehaviour #research #qba #AcademicTwitter

[Dr Holly Ferguson 🐂🐄 @hjferg]

Secondary Maths teachers - come along to National Museum of Rural Life for a Cow to Cone session next month. Learn more about the resource, running the R code and the farm which generated the data!

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

@nutrition_annie @riley_bethan I've just gotten your email 😅 I'll keep an ear out - I moved in august and properties were few and far between! Might be easier in may when *some* students might be moving out 🤞🏻

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

@SkylarkHolly I imagine they're asking that because they see all the amazing research and are frustrated that it doesn't trickle down to public knowledge, or maybe that's just me 😅 might be fun to show ad campaigns that demonstrate this trickle down?

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

I submitted my first review of a paper on Friday (that deadline snuck up on me!) and the authors just recieved them today.... despite being #reviewer2, I was definitely the nice one 😅 #AcademicTwitter

[Dr Ellen Williams @DrElliephants]

We have a new twitter a/c for the @ISAE_UK_IRELAND region! Give us a like, share with your networks, and share your news with us :D @KeelinODriscoll @appliedethology

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

@bet_till Hope to get it done and dusted this weekend! 👌🏻😊

[Dr Laura Shewbridge Carter @laurashewcar]

#Viva done and minor corrections came in today, a day or two's work at most 🥳 it's finally over! I was so stressed for this final hurdle but ended up really enjoying it, really great to discuss my work with people so interested in it ❤ #phdchat #AcademicTwitter #phdlife #cows