Dr. Chris Byrd is an Assistant Professor of Swine Research and Teaching at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota USA. His research program focuses on 1) identifying methodologies for measuring physiological stress in animals and, 2) mitigating stressors experienced by pigs on-farm. Chris has extensive experience utilizing HRV for stress measurement in livestock species. He is particularly interested in nonlinear aspects of HRV for detecting and predicting animal stress in response to common on-farm stressors.
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