Livestock handling and transport /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Edition: 3rd edition.
• Subjects: Livestock > Transportation.; Animals, Domestic.; Livestock > Handling.; Transportation > methods.; Livestock > Effect of stress on.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Welfare.; Abattoirs.; Animal husbandry.; Animal welfare.; Livestock.; Livestock transporters.; Restraints of animals.; Stress.; Transport of animals.; Electronic books.
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This book brings together the latest research data and practical information on animal handling, restraint methods and the design of facilities and transport. Published 14 years after the first edition, the third edition is fully updated with the latest research findings. An extensively revised intr...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : effect of customer requirements, international standards and marketing structure on the handling and transport of livestock and poultry / T. Grandin
• General principles of stress and well-being / P.B. Siegal and W.B. Gross
• Causes of poor welfare and welfare assessment during handling and transport / D.M. Broom
• Behavioural principles of handling cattle and other grazing animals under extensive conditions / T. Grandin
• Low-stress restraint, handling and weaning of cattle / J.M. Stookey and J.M. Watts
• Handling cattle raised in close association with people / R. Ewbank and M. Parker
• Handling facilities and restraint of range cattle / T. Grandin
• Dairy cattle behaviour, facilities, handling, transport, automation and well-being / J.L. Albright and W.K. Fulwider
• Cattle transport / T. Grandin and C. Gallo
• Behavioural principles of sheep handling / G.D. Hutson
• Design of sheep yards and shearing sheds / A. Barber and R.B. Freeman
• Sheep transport / M.S. Cockram
• Dogs for herding and guarding livestock / L. Coppinger and R. Coppinger
• Behavioural principles of pig handling / P.H. Hemsworth
• Transport of pigs / E. Lambooij
• Handling and transport of horses / K.A. Houpt
• Deer handling and transport / L.R. Matthews
• Poultry handling and transport / C.A. Weeks
• Stress physiology of animals during transport / T.G. Knowles and P.D. Warriss
• Handling and welfare of livestock in slaughter plants / T. Grandin
• Biosecurity for animal health and food safety / K.E. Belk, J.A. Scanga and T. Grandin.