Animal Welfare in Extensive Production Systems
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Animal Welfare in Extensive Production Systems

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eBook - PDF

Animal Welfare in Extensive Production Systems

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About this book

There has been a lot written about animal welfare in intensive farming systems, but very little about animals reared in extensive agricultural systems. Yet these animals make up a significant proportion of the world''s farm animal population, covering a significant portion of the globe. Animals kept in extensive conditions face their own unique set of challenges that are vital for anyone with an interest in farm animal welfare to understand. Animal Welfare in Extensive Production Systems presents those challenges in a practical way, backed up with thoroughly referenced research. Topics covered include: heat stress, water quality and availability, nutrition, predation, poisonous plants, transport, human-animal interactions, and neonatal mortality. This book is ideal for animal welfare academics, students and researchers. It can also be beneficial to students in animal science, veterinary science and agriculture, and to farm industry producers and personnel. The Farm Animal Welfare Education Centre (FAWEC) is based at the School of Veterinary Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). FAWEC works with farmers, veterinarians and the livestock sector in general to improve farm animal welfare. Its main activity is to provide practical, science-based training and education on the welfare of farm animals. *** "...''Animal Welfare in Extensive Production Systems'' is an unreservedly recommended addition to college and university library Agricultural & Veterinary Medicine collections and supplemental studies reading lists. --Midwest Book Review, Library Bookwatch: February 2017, The Agriculture Shelf (Series: The Animal Welfare Series) [Subject: Veterinary Medicine, Farming]

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Information

Publisher
5m Books
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781912178100

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. The Animal Welfare Series
  4. Prologue
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Contributors
  9. Preface
  10. CHAPTER 1 Animal welfare in extensive systems
  11. CHAPTER 2 Thermal stress in ruminants: Responses and strategies for alleviation
  12. CHAPTER 3 Adaptive responses of rangeland livestock to manage water balance
  13. CHAPTER 4 Grazing and animal distribution
  14. CHAPTER 5 Impacts of toxic plants on the welfare of grazing livestock
  15. CHAPTER 6 Predation
  16. CHAPTER 7 The health of livestock in extensive systems
  17. CHAPTER 8 Neonatal mortality of farm livestock in extensive management systems
  18. CHAPTER 9 Transport of livestock from extensive production systems
  19. Index
  20. Plates