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  • Instant Insights: Improving the welfare of growing and finishing pigs

    Series Book 99 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This book features four peer-reviewed reviews on improving the welfare of growing and finishing pigs.The first chapter begins by defining animal welfare in the context of pig production. The chapter discusses pig behaviour and how this can be affected by intensive production systems, group size, living conditions, as well as systems for monitoring animal health and care.The second chapter explores ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 3

    Animal health and welfare

    Series Book 25 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews latest research on diseases affecting pigs and their managementComprehensive review of pig welfare across the life-cycle, from gilts and sows to weaned piglets and finishing pigsIncludes generic welfare issues such as the role of pasture-based systems, humane transport, lairage and slaughter techniques ... Read more

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    Brain Beat: A Scientific and Evolutionary Perspective of Brain Health examines the origins of the pillars of brain health, expounding the current scientific basis for recommending physical exercise, cognitive exercises, sleep hygiene, socialization and brain-foods. However in addition to the "how" question, the more important "why" question is addressed from a neuro-archeological and evolutionary ... Read more

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  • Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens

    Series Book 91 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Very strong focus on key advances in understanding chicken behaviour, including sensory perception, pain and stress responses, learning and cognition as well as social behaviourCoverage of latest wearable, video and acoustic technologies to monitor chicken welfareComprehensive coverage of welfare issues across the value chain, from hatcheries to catching, transport and slaughter ... Read more

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  • Crop Physiology

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  • The Welfare of Farmed Ratites

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume reviews, for the first time, the broad range of issues that affect the welfare of commercially farmed ratites. Although ratites incorporate several families of flightless birds this book focuses on the most commonly farmed ratites, the ostrich, emu and rhea. The readers are taken on a journey through all sectors of the industry, which include breeding, incubation, hatching, brooding, ... Read more

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  • Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 1

    Safety, quality and sustainability

    Series Book 23 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Covers the latest research on controlling pathogenic and non-pathogenic safety risks associated with pig meatComprehensive review of the factors affecting the different aspects of pig meat qualityAssesses ways of minimising the environmental impact of pig production such as reducing input use, emissions and waste ... Read more

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    Series Book 12 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
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  • Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of pigs

    Series Book 96 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Emphasises advances in understanding pig behaviour as the foundation for understanding and improving welfareComprehensive coverable of welfare issues across the value chain, covering breeding and gestation, farrowing and lactation, weaning, growing and finishing as well as transport, lairage and slaughterParticular focus on ways of assessing and reducing pain in such areas as tail docking and ... Read more

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