Byrd, C. J., Young, J. M., Sommer, D. M. (2022) Cross-fostering alters the post-weaning behavioral stress response in a sex-specific manner. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 249: 105593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105593
Byrd, C. J., McConn, B. R., Gaskill, B. N., Schinckel, A. P., Green-Miller, A. R., Lay, D. C., Johnson, J.S. (2022) Characterizing the effect of incrementally increasing dry bulb temperature on linear and nonlinear measures of heart rate variability in non-pregnant, mid-gestation, and late-gestation sows. Journal of Animal Science skac004. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skac004
Shelver, W., Chakrabarty, S., Young, J. M., Byrd, C. J., Smith, D. J. (2021) Evaluation of rapid and standard tandem mass spectrometric methods to analyze veterinary drugs and their metabolites in hog oral fluid and cattle urine. Food Additives and Contaminants. Part A https://doi.org/10.1080/19440049.2021.2006801
Maskal, J. M., Brito, L. F., Duttlinger, A. W., Kpodo, K. R., McConn, B. R. Byrd., C. J., Richert, B. T., Marchant-Forde, J. N., Lay, D. C., Perry, S. D., Lucy, M. C., Safranski, T. J., Johnson, J. S. (2021) Characterizing the postnatal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis response of in utero heat stressed pigs at 10 and 15 weeks of age. Scientific Reports. 11(1):22527. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01889-w
Luna, D., González, C., Byrd, C. J., Palomo, R., Huenul, E., Figueroa, J. (2021). The effect of demonstrator social rank on the attentiveness and motivation of pigs to positively interact with their human caretakers. Animals 11(7): 2140. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11072140
Wagner, S. A., Fajt, V. T., Lo C. P., Byrd, C. J. (2021). Pharmacokinetics of oral firocoxib in un-weaned calves. Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics 44(5):793-798. https://doi.org/10.1111/jvp.12971
Luna, D., González, C.; Byrd, C. J., Palomo, R., Huenul, E., Figueroa, J. (2021). Do Domestic Pigs Acquire a Positive Perception of Humans through Observational Social Learning? Animals 11(1): 127. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11010127
Byrd, C. J., Radcliffe, J. S., Craig, B. A., Eicher, S. D., Lay Jr, D. C. (2020). Measuring piglet castration pain using linear and nonlinear measures of heart rate variability. Animal Welfare 29: 257-269. https://doi.org/10.7120/09627286.29.3.257
Johnson, J. S., Maskal, J. M., Duttlinger, A. W., Kpodo, K. R., McConn, B. R., Byrd, C. J., Richert, B. T., Marchant-Forde, J. N., Lay, D. C., Perry, S. D., Lucy, M. C., Safranski, T. J. (2020). In utero heat stress alters the postnatal innate immune response of pigs. Journal of Animal Science. 98: skaa356. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaa356
Maskal, J. M., Duttlinger, A. W., Kpodo, K. R., McConn, B. R., Byrd, C. J., Richert, B. T., Marchant-Forde, J. N., Lay, D. C., Perry, S. D., Lucy, M. C., Safranski, T. J., Johnson, J. S. (2020). Evaluation and mitigation of the effects of in utero heat stress on piglet growth performance, post-absorptive metabolism, and stress response following weaning and transport. Journal of Animal Science 98: skaa265. https://doi.org/10.1093/jas/skaa265
Byrd, C. J., Craig, B. A., Eicher, S. D., Radcliffe, J. S., Lay, Jr, D. C. (2019). Short communication: Assessment of disbudding pain in dairy calves using nonlinear measures of heart rate variability. Journal of Dairy Science 102(9): 8410-8416. https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2018-15948
Byrd, C. J., Johnson, J. S., Radcliffe, J. S., Craig, B. A., Eicher, S. D., Lay, D. C. (2019). Nonlinear analysis of heart rate variability for evaluating the growing pig stress response to an acute heat episode. Animal 14(2): 379-387. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1751731119001630
Byrd, C. J., Anderson, N. C., Lugar, D. W., Safranski, T. J., Lucy, M. C., Johnson, J. S. (2019). Evaluating the effects of in utero heat stress on piglet physiology and behavior following weaning and transport. Animals, 9(4):191. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9040191
Chapel, N. M., Byrd, C.J., Lugar, D. W., Morello, G. M., Baumgard, L. H., Ross, J. W., Safranski, T. J., Lucy, M. C., Johnson, J. S. (2017). Determining the effects of early gestation in utero heat stress on postnatal fasting heat production and circulating biomarkers associated with metabolism in growing pigs. Journal of Animal Science, 95(9), 3914-3921.
Byrd, C.J., Main, R. P., Makagon, M. M. (2016). Evaluating Pekin duck walking ability using a treadmill performance test. Poultry science, 95(10), 2244-9.