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Th is chapter discusses the effects of widely used housing systems on the behaviour and welfare of pigs, including dry sow housing and accommodations for farrowing, piglets after weaning and fattening pigs.
This chapter describes the effects housing systems on the behaviour and welfare of hens kept for egg production and for broilers kept for chicken meat production. Welfare problems in breeding hens, in the rearing of young chickens and in rearing turkeys, ducks and geese are also discussed.
We describe a wide range of unethical and unsustainable practices inherent to the trading and keeping of pet birds. At present, biodiversity and wild bird populations are being greatly harmed and many individual birds have poor welfare. Wild-caught birds should not be sold to the public as pets, or ...
The housing and handling of pet birds, reptiles and small mammals are discussed.
The time taken to lie down and stand up was determined for dry sows from different housing systems and related to physical and genetic parameters. In experiment 1, the times taken to lie down by 32 sows in two dry-sow housing conditions were measured. Sows housed long-term in stalls took longer to...
The pain perception, feeding, stocking, capture, slaughter, diseases, predators, transport and handling of aquacultured fish and special considerations for pet fish are discussed.
The behaviour of 12 sows in good quality un-strawed stalls, 3 groups of 5 sows in strawed pens with individual feeding stalls, and sows in a 38-sow group in a strawed yard with an electronic sow feeder were compared during the first 4 parities. All sows originated from the same source and were 9...
Experiments were carried out with sows housed in stalls or in group housing to investigate the time taken for sows to lie down in different dry sow housing systems, and to determine any relationships between the time taken and the body dimensions of the sow. Results indicate that, given enough...
This chapter discusses the physiology, feeding, housing, handling, diseases, behaviour and welfare of food fishes and aquarium fishes.
This chapter discusses the awareness and pain aspects and problems encountered by the farmed and pet fish such as stocking density; feeding methods; catching and killing methods; environmental quality and enrichment; diseases and parasitism; handling, grading and transport; and predation in...