Dr. Lindsay Whistance
2025
Dr. Lindsay Whistance is Senior Livestock Researcher at the Organic Research Centre. Research interests include behaviour, welfare, human-animal-relationships, and ecologically resilient systems which promote ‘a life worth living’ for farm animals. Current research includes investigating the role of trees in temperature regulation, body maintenance benefits and the nutritional/medicinal opportunities from browse as well as methods of feeding and processing tree fodder.
My Sessions
Feeding Trees to Livestock: Opportunities and Practicalities
A look at the use of trees as a source of fodder covering the potential benefits (nutritional, medicinal, behavioural) alongside the practicalities of different approaches, i.e., fresh browse or preserved fodder and ways of harvesting, processing, storing and feeding tree fodder. Gaps in knowledge and experience to be discussed.