UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
| Assoc. Professor Geoffrey Hinch Head of School School of Rural Science and Agriculture University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia Tel: 02-67732202 Fax: 02-67733922 Email: ghinch@une.edu.au |
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UNEAC Affiliated Fellow
| Assoc. Professor Geoffrey Hinch Head of School School of Rural Science and Agriculture University of New England, Armidale NSW 2351, Australia Tel: 02-67732202 Fax: 02-67733922 Email: ghinch@une.edu.au |
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Geoff was trained in Rural Science at UNE and has had extensive experience as a tertiary teacher and researcher in the areas of animal behaviour and reproductive management of farm animals. He completed his PhD at UNE in the area of cattle behaviour and meat quality before moving to New Zealand to work on the management of high fecundity sheep. On returning to UNE he joined the teaching staff in the late 1980’s and has since supervised around 35 PhD and Masters students and taught in a wide variety animal science and agricultural systems units. He has ongoing commitment to teaching of animal welfare courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students.
He presently is involved in projects or supervises students in areas as diverse as: sheep milk production, the genetics of feeding behaviour of pigs, grain feeding of horses, grazing behaviour of supplementary fed dairy cows, nutritional modulation of cannibalism in layer hens, temperament and meat quality in sheep, stress haematology and immune suppression, measures of sustainable grazing management, behavioural motivation and welfare of farm animals and feeding behaviour in dogs.
Research interests and current research projects related to Asia:
Geoff has been involved in research projects in a variety of Asian countries including Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand . Most recently he has been involved in an ACIAR funded Training Course in Research Management in Agriculture – in Vietnam, Fiji and Indonesia and presently is collaborating in an ACIAR project on improving productivity of sheep production in the state of Maharashta, India.
Recent publications (1999-2004):
Tien, D.V., Lynch, J.J. Hinch, G.N. and Nolan, J.V. (1999) Grass odour and flavour overcome feed neophobia in sheep. Small Rum. Res. 32, 223-229
Hills,J., Kyriazakis,I., Nolan, J.V., Hinch,G.N. and Lynch,J.J. (1999) Conditioned feeding responses in sheep to flavoured foods associated with sulphur doses Animal Science. 69(2):313-325
Hinch,G.N., Nolan,J.V., Lynch,J.J. and Thomson,E. (1999) Selection of diets by cockerels offered a choice of feeds differing in their methionine content Australian Poultry Science Symposium 11, 81-84
Hinch G.N, Hills J., Nolan J.V and Lynch, J.J. (1999) Can feed neophobia of sheep be overcome by use of familiar feed odour or flavour? Proc 26th Conference of Aust.Society.Study Anim. Behav. Robb College, Armidale 8-11th Apri. 26:30.
Hinch G N (1999) Spatial behaviour of grazing livestock and the memory of food position (Invited review) Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition 1999. 12: 193-200
Thomson ,E.S.,Hills, J., Hinch, G.N., Nolan, J.V.and Lynch, J.J. (1999) Overcoming food neophobia using familiar colours and flavours Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition 1999. 12: 28A
Amores B. G., Hinch, G.N., Mortimer, S.I. and Sivarajasingam, S. (1999) Genotype x Environment Interactions for Lamb Traits of Merino Sheep Proceedings of the 13th AAABG Conference – Perth WA 4-7th July. pp110-113
Nolan, J.V and Hinch, G.N.(2000) Optimisation of the protein and amino acid supplies to laying hens Aust. Poultry Symposium (invited paper) 12: 57-66
Cameron, B. F., Wong, C. W., Hinch, G. N., Singh, D. and Colditz, I. G. (2000) Effects of dietary nucleotides on immune fuction in early-weaned piglets. 8th Symposium on Digestive Physiology in Pigs, 20-22 June 2000, Uppsala, Sweden. Abstr. A 34.
Cameron, B. F., Wong, C. W., Hinch, G. N., Singh, D. and Colditz, I. G. (2001) Effects of dietary nucleotides on immune fuction of early-weaned piglets. Chapter 17 in Digestive Physiology of Pigs. Proceedings of the 8th symposium J E Lindberg and B Ogle (edits) CABI Publishing pp 66-68
Daily,H., Hinch,G.N., Scott,J.M. and Nolan,J.V. (2000) The use of a decision support program to facilitate the teaching of biological principles in the context of agricultural systems. Effective Teaching and Learning Conference Nov, 2000 University of Queensland, http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/conferences/teach_conference00/
Hartini,S., Choct.M., Hinch,G.N. and Nolan,J.V. (2001) Effect of diet composition and beak trimming on the incidence of cannibalism in laying hens. Aust.Poultry Symposium 13: 216-219
McGilchrist, N. Rowe,J.B. and Hinch,G.N. (2001) Predicting small intestinal starch digestibility in the horse using in-vivo and in-vitro assays. Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition 13, 13A
McGilchrist, N., Rowe, J.B. and Hinch, G.N. (2001) Starch Digestibility – The Grain or the Horse? International Horse Industry Symposium - Postgraduate Foundation in Veterinary Science -University of Sydney 2001 pp247-8
Hartini,S., Choct,M. Hinch,G., Kocher,A. and Nolan,J. (2002) Effects of Light intensity during rearing and beak trimming and dietary fibre sources on mortality, egg production, and performance of Isa Brown laying hens. Journal of Applied Poultry Research 11:104-110
Hartini, S., Hinch, G. N., Choct, M. and Nolan, J.V. (2002) Effect of diet composition and feed form on the behaviour of ISA Brown laying hens. Aust.Poultry Symposium 14: 104-107
Choct,M., Hartini,S. Hinch,G.N. & Nolan,J.V. (2002) Dietary prevention of cannibalism in layers. Aust.Poultry Symposium 14: 157
Russell, M.A., Latour,M.A., Forrest, J.C., Jessop, R.S. and Hinch,G.N. (2002) Travel as a Teaching Method Abstract 663 ASAS/CSAS and CDSA Conference- Quebec City, Canada
McGilchrist, N. Rowe, J.B. and Hinch, G. (2002) Grain feeding for Throughbreds: industry practice Animal Production in Australia 24: 304
Sumkint., Thwaites, C.J. and Hinch, G.N. (2002) Radiant heat load in calves. Animal Production in Australia 24: 254
Richards,N., Choct,M., Hinch, G.N. and Rowe, J.B. (2003) Equine _ - amylase: Does it limit starch digestion in the small intestine of the horse? Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition 14: 191-196
Hartini, S., Choct,M.., Hinch, G. N. and Nolan,J.V. (2004) Prevention of cannibalism in layers by dietary manipulation Poultry Science (accepted)
Hinch, G.N., Nolan, J.V., Lynch, J.J. and Hills, J. (2004) Familiar odour and flavour cues reduce neophobia in sheep Animal Production in Australia 25: 97-99
Hogan, N., Kerr, C.A., Hinch, G.N. and Fisher, A.D. (2004) A heat challenge model for animal welfare assessment. Animal Production in Australia 25: 261
Drake, K., Ferguson, D.M., Hinch,G.N., Cook, C.L.(2004) Neurophysiological regulation of temperament in livestock Animal Production in Australia 25:233
Boissy,A., Fisher, A.D., Bouix, J., Hinch, G.N. and Le Neindre,P. (2004) Genetics of fear in ruminant livestock (review) Livestock Production Science (accepted 21/6/04)
Mignon-Grasteau, S., Boissy, A.,. Bouix,J., Faure, J., Fisher, A.,.Hinch, G.N., Jensen, P., Le Neindre, P., Mormede, P., Prunet, P., Vandeputte, M. and Beaumont, C. (2004) Genetics of Adaptation and domestication in livestock Livestock Production Science (accepted 16/6/04)