The welfare of cattle /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Engle, Terry (Terry Eugene), 1971- (Editor), Klingborg, Donald J. (Editor), Rollin, Bernard E. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Can food production keep pace with population growth, changing dietary habits, and a desire for higher quality protein?
  • Economics of global cattle industries, with implications for on-farm practices
  • Dairy and beef sustainability: nutrient loss and use efficiency
  • Livestock and climate change: facts and fiction
  • Microbial pathogens in extensive and intensive animal agriculture systems
  • Cattle ectoparasites in extensive and intensive cattle systems
  • The uses of biotechnology to improve animal welfare
  • The meaning of animal welfare and its application to cattle
  • Sense and sensibility: understanding how cattle perceive our collective world
  • Breeding and welfare: genetic manipulation of beef and dairy cattle
  • Providing assurance that cattle have a reasonably good life
  • Transportation and slaughter of beef and dairy cattle
  • Optimal human animal interactions for improving cattle handling
  • Cattle welfare and principles of handling facility design
  • Pain mitigation in cattle
  • An overview of the segments of the beef cattle industry and animal welfare implications of beef industry practices
  • Ranching with integrity and intentionality
  • Range beef cow and calf health and welfare
  • Animal care issues in beef cattle feedlots
  • Welfare issues in feedlot cattle
  • Sustainability, the environment, and animal welfare
  • To meet the ethical imperative of telos in modern dairy production: societal concern for naturalness, animal welfare, and opportunities for resolution through science
  • Herdsmanship and human interaction with dairy cattle
  • Health, disease, and animal welfare perspectives for dairy cattle
  • Dairy cow welfare and herd turnover rates
  • Calf welfare
  • The downer cow
  • Cow comfort in intensive and extensive dairy housing systems.