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About this book
Completely revised and updated throughout, this new edition of Improving Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach continues to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to improving the lives of production animals. It particularly considers advances in topics of increasing importance such as heat stress and other climate-related issues, system-specific considerations around organic farming, measuring the true sustainability of farming systems, and how to successfully transfer rapidly developing technologies from research to field. It also covers:
- Core concepts of animal welfare, such as handling and transport, stockmanship, husbandry procedures and euthanasia, with an increased focus on replacing painful procedures with alternatives.
- The wider context of welfare, including animal behaviour and emotions, ethics and economic factors.
- Implementing effective measurement techniques to track and improve welfare, as well auditing procedures.
- Practical species-specific information across cattle, pigs, poultry, fish and equids.
Written by a team of experienced researchers and edited by an outstanding world expert on animal welfare, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners of ethology, animal and veterinary science, veterinary medicine, as well as anyone working directly with farm animals and committed to improving their welfare.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Supplementary Content
- Preface
- 1 The Importance of Positive Experiences for Animals and Implementing an Effective Animal Welfare Program
- 2 The Importance of Measurement to Improve the Welfare of Livestock, Poultry, and Fish
- 3 Why is Agricultural Animal Welfare Important? The Social and Ethical Context
- 4 Implementing Effective Animal-based Measurements for Assessing Animal Welfare on Farms and Slaughter Plants
- 5 How to Improve Livestock Handling and Reduce Stress
- 6 Painful Husbandry Procedures in Livestock and Poultry
- 7 The Importance of Good Stockmanship and Its Benefits to Animals
- 8 Animal Behavior and Emotions – On-farm Considerations
- 9 Improving Livestock, Poultry, and Fish Welfare in Slaughter Plants with Auditing Programs and Animal-based Measures
- 10 Recommended On-farm Euthanasia Practices
- 11 Welfare During Transport of Livestock and Poultry
- 12 Animal Welfare on Organic Farms
- 13 Which Agricultural Practices are Really Sustainable? Answers for Beef, Dairy, and Poultry Producers
- 14 The Effect of Economic Factors on the Welfare of Livestock and Poultry
- 15 Improving Animal Care and Welfare: Practical Approaches for Achieving Change
- 16 Successful Technology Transfer of Behavioral and Animal Welfare Research to the Farm and Slaughter Plant
- 17 Future of Animal Welfare – Technological Innovations for Individualized Animal Care
- 18 Technology Designed to Enhance Poultry Welfare
- 19 Precision Livestock Farming and Technology in Swine Welfare
- 20 Practical Methods for Improving the Welfare of Working Equids: Horses, Donkeys, and Mules
- Index
- Back Cover
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