Department of Animal Science 

UC Davis - The University of California, Davis

Cassandra Tucker

 

Photos from recent experiments

Tucker lab in summer 2008. From left to right: Susie Hawkins, Dr. Nadège Krebs, David Ledgerwood, 2146, Amélie Legrand and Amanda Grout.
 

Calves play with Dr. Joe Stookey (a collaborator from University of Saskatchewa, http://www.usask.ca/wcvm/directory/details.php?id=38) in our experiment about the pain associated with disbudding (AgResearch, 2006)

 

Studying shade use in dairy cattle; the observers use the caravan in the left-hand corner of the photograph to escape the sun (AgResearch, 2006)

 

Andrea Rogers, research assistant, cuddles an experimental subject (AgResearch, 2006)

 

Sometimes we need a little height to observe the cows… (AgResearch, 2005)

 
Debbie Davison, research assistant, scores body condition and attaches a collar to a cow participating in our experiment about cold stress (AgResearch, 2005)
 
Cow 

In 2008, Améie Legrand, a visiting MSc student from University of Edinburgh, provided “cow showers” to dairy cattle in order to understand when cows will use water to cool down.”