Improving animal welfare : a practical approach /
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| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass. :
CAB International,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- The importance of measurement to improve the welfare of livestock, poultry and fish
- Why is agricultural animal welfare important? The social and ethnical context
- Implementing effective standards and scoring systems for assessing animal welfare on farms and slaughter plants
- The importance of good stockmanship and its benefits for the animals
- How to improve livestock handling and reduce stress
- Painful husbandry procedures in livestock and poultry
- Welfare during transport of livestock and poultry
- Animal well-being and behavioral needs on the farm
- Improving livestock, poultry, and fish welfare in slaughter plants with auditing programs
- Recommended on-farm euthanasia practices
- The effect of economic factors on the welfare of livestock and poultry
- Improving animal welfare : practical approaches for achieving change
- Practical methods for improving the welfare of horses, donkeys, and other working draught animals in developing areas
- Successful technology transfer of behavioral and animal welfare research to the farm and slaughter plant
- Why are behavioral needs important?