Please do not hesitate to email me for further information on postgraduate thesis topics and collaborative opportunities related to the following:
- Immunocastration and its effects on production performance (pigs, sheep, eland and deer).
- Reproductive consequences of immunocastration.
- Mitigation strategies for boar taint.
- Nutritional requirements of immunocastrated pigs.
- Behavioural and welfare benefits.
- Steroid hormone monitoring in ungulates
- Evaluation of serum testosterone production patterns and its metabolite pathways.
- Non-invasive faecal hormone monitoring for reproduction and stress evaluation.
- Meat quality and processing of domesticated and undomesticated species.
- Characterisation of meat production potential of African antelope.
- Relationship between muscle fibre characteristics and meat quality of undomesticated species.
- Instrumental and sensory evaluation of meat and meat products.
- Emphasis on traditional South African products.
