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A little about me
I am currently a Research Animal Scientist with the United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, which nicely abbreviates to USDA-ARS. I work at the Livestock Behavior Research Unit, based in West Lafayette, Indiana. My expertise is applied animal behavior (applied ethology) and stress physiology and the focus of my research is on welfare issues surrounding housing and management of pigs and dairy cattle, though about 90% of my work is with pigs. In more detail, my research interests are:
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- Social behavior, especially aggression
- Maternal behavior and neonatal mortality
- Development and use of novel welfare indicators
- Heart rate variability
- Vocalizations
- Tear staining
- Heart rate variability
- The pig as a laboratory animal and biomedical model
- Gut-brain axis in the pig, and the effects of dietary manipulation
- Influence of probiotics on welfare and cognition
- Environmental enrichment for pigs and poultry
Disclaimer
The views expressed in on this website are my personal opinions and do not represent the official policies, positions or views of USDA or the US Government.
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Latest publications - purchase access
Marchant-Forde, J.N., Duttlinger, A.W., Richert, B.T and Johnson, J.S. (2020) Stressors and weaned piglet welfare: impact & mitigation. In: Farmer, C. (Ed.) The Suckling and Weaned Piglet. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Netherlands. doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-894-0_11
Herskin, M.S., Bundgaard, C.J., Ottesen, J.L., Sørensen, D.B. and Marchant-Forde, J.N. (2021) The Pig. In: Sørensen, D.B., Cloutier, S., Gaskill, B. (Eds) Animal Centric Care and Management: Enhancing Refinement in Biomedical Research. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA. doi:10.1201/9780429059544
Latest publications - open access
Wang, M., Youssef, A., Larsen, M., Rault, J.L., Berckmans, D., Marchant-Forde, J.N., Hartung, J., Bleich, A., Lu, M. and Norton, T. (2021) Contactless video-based heart-rate monitoring of a resting and an anesthetized pig. Animals 11, 442. doi.org/10.3390/ani11020442
Marchant-Forde, J.N. and Boyle, L.A. (2020) COVID-19 effects on livestock production: A One Welfare issue. Frontiers in Veterinary Science doi:10.3389/fvets.2020.585787
Marchant-Forde, J.N., Duttlinger, A.W., Richert, B.T and Johnson, J.S. (2020) Stressors and weaned piglet welfare: impact & mitigation. In: Farmer, C. (Ed.) The Suckling and Weaned Piglet. Wageningen Academic Publishers, Netherlands. doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-894-0_11
Herskin, M.S., Bundgaard, C.J., Ottesen, J.L., Sørensen, D.B. and Marchant-Forde, J.N. (2021) The Pig. In: Sørensen, D.B., Cloutier, S., Gaskill, B. (Eds) Animal Centric Care and Management: Enhancing Refinement in Biomedical Research. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA. doi:10.1201/9780429059544
Latest publications - open access
Wang, M., Youssef, A., Larsen, M., Rault, J.L., Berckmans, D., Marchant-Forde, J.N., Hartung, J., Bleich, A., Lu, M. and Norton, T. (2021) Contactless video-based heart-rate monitoring of a resting and an anesthetized pig. Animals 11, 442. doi.org/10.3390/ani11020442
Marchant-Forde, J.N. and Boyle, L.A. (2020) COVID-19 effects on livestock production: A One Welfare issue. Frontiers in Veterinary Science doi:10.3389/fvets.2020.585787
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