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  • Instant Insights: Improving piglet welfare

    Series Book 18 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on improving piglet welfare.The first chapter reviews the main welfare challenges faced during farrowing and lactation, including the occurrence of painful husbandry procedures, such as tooth resection, tail docking and castration. The chapter also highlights various mitigation strategies that can be implemented to optimise the welfare ... Read more

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  • 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

    $161.99 USD

  • 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

    $175.49 USD

  • 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

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    Series series American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
    Laboratory Animal Welfare provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look into the new science of animal welfare within laboratory research. Animals specifically considered include rodents, cats and dogs, nonhuman primates, agricultural animals, avian animals and aquatic animals. The book examines the impact of experiment design and environment on animal welfare, as well as emergency situations and ... 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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  • 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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  • Environmental Physiology of Livestock

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    Environmental stress is one of the most significant factors affecting livestock performance and health, and it is only expected to increase with effects of global warming. Environmental Physiology of Livestock brings together the latest research on environmental physiology, summarizing progress in the field and providing directions for future research. Recent developments in estimating heat stress ... Read more

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  • Advances in Sheep Welfare

    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
    Advances in Sheep Welfare examines the recent advances made in sheep welfare assessment, handling and management, providing state-of-the-art coverage of the welfare needs of one of the world's most widely farmed animals. The book begins with an introduction to sheep welfare in Part One, with chapters covering biology and natural behavior, sheep production systems, and consumer and societal ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of dairy cattle

    Series Book 98 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Particularly strong focus on understanding dairy cattle behaviour as the foundation for improving welfare in such areas as cognition and learning, pain and stress as well as social behaviourCovers developments in more animal/outcome-based welfare indicators as well as advanced sensor, acoustic and video techniques for monitoring behaviour and welfareComprehensive review of welfare issues across ... Read more

    $175.49 USD