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This book contains 17 chapters that discuss commercial poultry production systems and their main welfare challenges; the effects of hatchery practices on the welfare of poultry; rearing young birds for adaptability; electrical stunning of poultry; gas and low atmospheric pressure stunning; welfare...

Author(s)
Mench, J. A.
Publisher
Woodhead Publishing, Duxford, UK
Citation
Advances in poultry welfare, 2018, pp xix + 385 pp.
Abstract

This 663-paged book summarises the rich body of research on understanding the behaviour of chickens and using this knowledge to optimise welfare management of broilers and layers. Part 1 of this volume reviews advances in research on key aspects of poultry behaviour and welfare monitoring. Chapters ...

Author(s)
Nicol, C.
Publisher
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK
Citation
Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens, 2020, pp xxiii + 663 pp.
CABI Book Info
Cover for Broom and Fraser's domestic animal behaviour and welfare.

The 6th edition of this book contains 42 chapters on one biology, ethics, sentience and sustainability; behaviour and welfare concepts; describing, recording and measuring behaviour; learning, cognition and behaviour development; motivation; evolution and optimality; welfare assessment; defence and ...

Author(s)
Broom, D. M.
ISBN
2021 CABI (H ISBN 9781789249835)
Type
Book
CABI Book Info
Cover for Animal welfare.

This third edition of "Animal Welfare" has 407 pages and is divided into five parts. Part I, Issues, introduces the background and philosophy of the subject. Part II covers problems for animal welfare, starting in chapter 3 with the animal's interactions with its environment. The following four...

Author(s)
Appleby, M. C.; Olsson, I. A. S.; Galindo, F.
ISBN
2018 CAB International (H ISBN 9781786390202)
Type
Book
CABI Book Info
Cover for Fraser's the behaviour and welfare of the horse.

The third edition of this book contains 15 illustrated chapters on the development and assessment of equine behaviour; sensory and neurologic faculties; the neurological underpinnings of behaviour; behavioural homeostasis, daily rhythms and advances in monitoring; ingestion, elimination and...

ISBN
2022 CABI (H ISBN 9781789242102)
Type
Book
Abstract

This book contains 10 chapters that describe dairy cattle welfare and other aspects of sustainability, advances in understanding cognition and learning in cattle, advances in understanding pain and stress in cows, developing effective welfare measures for cattle, advances in precision livestock...

Publisher
Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, Cambridge, UK
Citation
Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of dairy cattle, 2021, pp xix + 254 pp.
Abstract

Advances in Pig Welfare analyzes current topical issues in the key areas of pig welfare assessment and improvement. With coverage of both recent developments and reviews of historical welfare issues, the volume provides a comprehensive survey of the field. The book is divided into two sections....

Author(s)
Špinka, M.
Publisher
Elsevier, Oxford, UK
Citation
Advances in pig welfare: a volume in herd and flock welfare, 2018, pp 492 pp.
CABI Book Info
Cover for Bridging research disciplines to advance animal welfare science: a practical guide.

This book provides practical information about interdisciplinary research, particularly to students and researchers of animal behaviour, animal welfare and veterinary sciences, to better understand how the integration of disciplines can advance animal welfare science. It has two parts, in part 1,...

ISBN
2021 CABI (H ISBN 9781789247886)
Type
Book
Abstract

Zoo Animals: Husbandry, Welfare and Public Interactions begins by suggesting that maintaining biologically functional and compatible social groups is a primary welfare concern for zoo-housed animals. An overview of the welfare impact of social groupings of a number of zoo-housed animals is...

Author(s)
Berger, M.; Corbett, S.
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers, Inc, Hauppauge, USA
Citation
Zoo animals: husbandry, welfare and public interactions, 2018, pp 323 pp.
CABI Book Info
Cover for Practical feline behaviour: understanding cat behaviour and improving welfare.

This book contains all the relevant information that a veterinary nurse or technician needs to understand and handle the behaviour and welfare of house cats, and to offer safe and practical advice to clients. This approachable and down-to-earth text describes the internal and external influences on ...

Author(s)
Atkinson, T.
ISBN
2018 CAB International (H ISBN 9781780647838)
Type
Book

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