Maurice Eastridge

About

Maurice Eastridge is a Professor and Senior Associate Chair at The Ohio State University in the Department of Animal Sciences. His role involves leadership within the department, and he is involved in research related to animal sciences. Specific details about his research focus, background, and key contributions are not provided in the page text.

Research topics

• Biology
• Medicine
• Animal science
• Endocrinology
• Chemistry
• Veterinary medicine
• Biochemistry
• Internal medicine
• Food science
• Microbiology

Selected publications

• The effect of a furnished individual hutch pre-weaning on calf behavior, response to novelty, and growth

  Journal of Dairy Science · 2017-04-21 · 45 citations

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  Housing preweaned dairy calves in individual outdoor hutches is common in North America. However, this type of housing lacks stimulation and minimizes calves' ability to express natural behavior. Providing a social companion has been shown to stimulate natural behavior and promote growth, but no research has assessed the effect of providing physical enrichment items to calves pre-weaning. The objective of this study was to determine calf use of physical items added to an individual hutch, and if…

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• Housing system may affect behavior and growth performance of Jersey heifer calves

  Journal of Dairy Science · 2015-11-14 · 45 citations

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  Social pressure is increasing to adopt alternative housing and management practices that allow farm animals more opportunity to exercise and demonstrate social behavior. The present study investigated the effect of pair housing on the behavior and growth performance of Jersey heifer calves. Forty female Jersey calves were allocated to individual or pair housing at birth and monitored for 9 wk. Calves were provided with a single hutch, and those allocated to the pair housing treatment were provid…

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• Essential oil and monensin affect ruminal fermentation and the protozoal population in continuous culture

  Journal of Dairy Science · 2018-03-29 · 28 citations

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  The interaction of monensin and essential oil was hypothesized to suppress protozoa and methane production while maintaining normal rumen function. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of feeding monensin (MON) and CinnaGar (CIN, a commercial blend of cinnamaldehyde and garlic oil; Provimi North America, Brookville, OH) on ruminal fermentation characteristics. Continuous culture fermentors (n = 4) were maintained in 4 experimental periods in a 4 4 Latin square design. Four di…

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• Dairy cows fed equivalent concentrations of forage neutral detergent fiber from corn silage, alfalfa hay, wheat straw, and corn stover had similar milk yield and total tract digestibility

  Animal Feed Science and Technology · 2017-01-22 · 24 citations

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• Crude glycerin decreases nonesterified fatty acid concentration in ewes during late gestation and early lactation1

  Journal of Animal Science · 2017-02-01 · 20 citations

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  Crude glycerin is a gluconeogenic substrate in ruminants and may help to decrease the occurrence of pregnancy toxemia. The objective in this trial was to determine the effects of feeding a diet containing crude glycerin on DMI, milk yield, milk composition, and blood metabolites in periparturient ewes and lamb performance. One hundred eighteen 90 (±1.1)-d pregnant Santa Inês ewes were used. After lambing, 32 ewes (62.8 ± 1.3 kg BW) were allotted in a randomized complete block design defined by p…

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Frequent coauthors

• J.L. Firkins

  The Ohio State University

  49 shared

• N.R. St-Pierre

  18 shared

• W.P. Weiss

  The Ohio State University

  17 shared

• D.L. Palmquist

  The Ohio State University

  10 shared

• Kent H. Hoblet

  9 shared

• V.F. Colenbrander

  Purdue University West Lafayette

  9 shared

• Davina L. Hill

  University of Glasgow

  9 shared

• D.R. Mertens

  9 shared

Awards & honors

• DeLaval Dairy Extension Award (2001)
• Nutrition Professionals, Inc. Applied Dairy Nutrition Award…
• Mid-Career Alumni Award from the Department of Animal Scienc…
• Purina Animal Nutrition Teaching Award in Dairy Production (…

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