# positions[].organizations[].parent[].label
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
Dr. Daigle specializes in evaluating management practices to optimize animal health, productivity, and welfare.  The Daigle Lab quantifies behavior to develop and validate technologies designed to measure species specific behaviors important to health, welfare, and productivity.

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Michigan State University - (East Lansing, Michigan, United States)

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Michigan State University - (East Lansing, Michigan, United States)

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Purdue University - (West Lafayette, Indiana, United States)

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Oklahoma State University - (Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States)

# publications[].label
Controlling Feather Pecking and Cannibalism in Egg Laying Flocks

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Consider the Source: The Impact of Social Mixing on Drylot Housed Steer Behavior and Productivity.

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Animal-Assisted Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Incorporating the Philosophy of Technology into Animal Welfare Assessment

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Future-proofing the feedyard workforce: Survey of Texas beef cattle stockpeople indicates positive attitudes towards animals and the workplace while highlighting opportunities for improvement.

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The Use of Traditional Fear Tests to Evaluate Different Emotional Circuits in Cattle.

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Detection of jumping and landing force in laying hens using wireless wearable sensors.

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Validation of an algorithm to assess feedbunk replacement events in beef cattle using an electronic feeding system

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Evaluating accurate and efficient sampling strategies designed to measure social behavior and brush use in drylot housed cattle.

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Safety in numbers: Social isolation increases behavioral responses of cattle during startle tests

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Knowledge hybrid vigor: improving beef cattle management with the integration of environmental and behavioral technologies

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Canine olfaction as a disease detection technology: A systematic review

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Using Canine Olfaction to Detect Bovine Respiratory Disease: An Analysis of two Dogs' Performance

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Impact of exercise on productivity, behavior, and immune functioning of weaned Bos indicus-cross calves housed in drylots.

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Investing in stockpeople is an investment in animal welfare and agricultural sustainability.

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Noncaged laying hens remain unflappable while wearing body-mounted sensors: Levels of agonistic behaviors remain unchanged and resource use is not reduced after habituation.

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Welfare Quality  parameters do not always reflect hen behaviour across the lay cycle in non-cage laying hens

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Assessing Activity and Location of Individual Laying Hens in Large Groups Using Modern Technology.

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What's in a step? Evaluating the interrelationship between productivity and cattle behavior during a series of temperament tests

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Effects of Interactive Activity at the Feedbunk on Performance, Feed Efficiency and Feeding Patterns in Feedlot Cattle

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Environment enrichment reduces aggression and stereotypic behaviors in feedlot steers

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Welfare and behavior considerations for cattle in tropical and subtropical environments

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Effect of Exercise on Calf Productivity, Health and Behavior.

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Quantifying Stress and Anxiety: Development and Validation of a Novel Fear Test for Cattle.

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Relationship between allogrooming and disease in feedlot steers: Social interactions may provide information about individual animal health.

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In Search of the Urban Cowboy: The Need to Incorporate Animal Husbandry into the United States Higher Education Curriculum and Its Implications for Production Animal Welfare.

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Evaluation of the Texas Feed Yard Workforce: Survey of Stockperson Attitudes and Perceptions towards Euthanasia, Animal Care and Employee Value

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Breed Matters: Consistency of Bull Temperament across Time and Relationship between Temperament and Productivity.

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Impact of social mixing on feedlot steer eating and lying behavior

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Using Canine Olfaction to Detect Bovine Respiratory Disease: A Pilot Study.

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Optimizing Animal Welfare in a Socially Acceptable and Sustainable Manner: The ASAS Grand Challenge That Requires Moral Self-reflection and Scientific Calibration

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Effects of Moderate Exercise Regimen on Reproductive Development of Replacement Beef Heifers Reared in Drylots at a High Stocking Density

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When continuous observations just won't do: developing accurate and efficient sampling strategies for the laying hen.

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Social dominance in beef cattle - A scoping review

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Development of a wireless body-mounted sensor to monitor location and activity of laying hens in a non-cage housing system

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Impact of labor issues on animal welfare

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Effects of tail docking on behavior of confined feedlot cattle.

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Administering an appeasing substance to beef calves at weaning to optimize productive and health responses during a 42-d preconditioning program.

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Hourly activity patterns and behaviour-based management of feedlot steers with and without a cattle brush

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Parallels between Postpartum Disorders in Humans and Preweaning Piglet Mortality in Sows.

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Impact of diet on the behavior of limit-fed beef cows in drylots

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Corrigendum to "When continuous observations just won't do: Developing accurate and efficient sampling strategies for the laying hen" [Behav. Process. 103 (2014) 58-66].

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Evaluating equine feeding behavior utilizing GrowSafe Systems: a pilot study.

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A Scoping Review: The Impact of Housing Systems and Environmental Features on Beef Cattle Welfare.

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Using Canine Olfaction to Detect Bovine Respiratory Disease: A Pilot Study.

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The Bovine Zero Maze: Development of a novel fear test for cattle

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Impact of a cattle brush on feedlot steer behavior, productivity and stress physiology

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Environment enrichment reduces aggression and stereotypic behaviors in feedlot steers.

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Impact of environmental enrichment on feedlot steer productivity and aggression

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Adapting to the new normal: Feedlot cattle circadian rhythm and behavior-based management

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Canine olfaction as a disease detection technology

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Evaluating the Utility of Individual Cattle Brush Use Behavior as a Novel Behavioral Phenotype Regarding Productivity, Temperament, and Feeding Behavior of Bos Indicus Steers and Heifers Housed in Dry Lots.

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Impact of social mixing on beef and dairy cattle-A scoping review

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Case Study: Effect of exercise programs during receiving in a commercial feedlot on behavior and productivity of Brahman crossbred calves: Results from a commercial environment and a comparison to the research environment

# publications[].publisher
American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists

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Effect of diet on non-nutritive oral behavior performance in cattle: A systematic review

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Erratum: Evaluating equine feeding behavior utilizing GrowSafe Systems: a pilot study.

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Safety in numbers: Social isolation increases behavioral responses of cattle during startle tests.

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Moving GIS research indoors: spatiotemporal analysis of agricultural animals.

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Remote Activity Classification of Hens Using Wireless Body Mounted Sensors

# publications[].publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

# publications[].label
Cattle adapted to tropical and subtropical environments: social, nutritional, and carcass quality considerations.

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Administering an appeasing substance to beef calves at weaning to optimize welfare and productivity

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Impact of sociometric status on brush utilization in environmentally-enriched, feedlot

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Using Canine Olfaction to Detect Bovine Respiratory Disease: An Analysis of two Dogs' Performance

# publications[].label
Impact of social mixing on feedlot steer eating and lying behavior.

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Use of dynamic and rewarding environmental enrichment to alleviate feather pecking in non-cage laying hens

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Impacts of commingling cattle from different sources on their physiological, health, and performance responses during feedlot receiving.

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Current challenges and future of agricultural genomes to phenomes in the USA.

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Individual Consistency of Feather Pecking Behavior in Laying Hens: Once a Feather Pecker Always a Feather Pecker?

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Future-proofing the feedyard workforce: Survey of Texas beef cattle stockpeople indicates positive attitudes towards animals and the workplace while highlighting opportunities for improvement.

# publications[].label
Impact of exercise on productivity and behavior of weaned Bos indicus-cross calves housed in drylots.

# publications[].label
Impact of commingling on feedlot steer productivity

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Heifers are from Venus, steers are from mars: Sex differences in social behaviors in drylot housed brahman cattle exposed to a cattle brush

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Effect of Dietary Corn Stalk Inclusion on the Performance of Non-Nutritive Oral Behaviors of Drylot-Housed Beef Steers.

# publications[].label
Administering an appeasing substance to beef calves at weaning to optimize welfare and productivity.

# researcherOn[].label
Probiotic modulation of appetite to improve breeder pullet welfare

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.label
United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# researcherOn[].awardedBy.preferredLabel
USDA-National Institute of Food And Agriculture

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M University; Animal Science; 2471 TAMU

# organizations[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# schools[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# inTheNews[].label
Smell that? Dogs deployed to detect a disease found in cattle

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Forever Controversial, Horse Slaughter For Human Consumption Remains Fact Of Life

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Using Hound Dogs to Sniff Out Cattle Disease

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Commentary: will reinstating horse slaughter in the U.S. improve horse welfare?

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Selecting dairy replacements based on heat stress

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Texas A&M researcher determining if dogs can sniff out cattle disease

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Space, exercise may be critical to drylot beef heifer reproduction

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Wearables reveal the secret lives of farm animals

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Can dogs catch a whiff of bovine respiratory disease?

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Can dogs catch a whiff of bovine respiratory disease?

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Why these cows corralled a suspected car thief

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Can Dogs Catch A Whiff Of Bovine Respiratory Disease?

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Texas A&M Animal Welfare Judging Team claims national wins

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A permanent ban on horse slaughter might replace that yearly budget proviso