Improving animal welfare : a practical approach /

• Other Authors: Grandin, Temple, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Animal welfare.; Animal industry > Moral and ethical aspects.; Research.; Extension and Advisory Work.; Laws and Regulations.; Veterinary Economics, (New March 2000); Draught Animals.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Slaughter.; Animal Behaviour.; Animal Health and Hygiene (General); Animal Welfare.; Animal Surgery and Non-drug Therapy, (New March 2000); Aquaculture (Animals); Cleaning, Grading, Handling, Storage and Transport Equipment.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Techniques and Methodology.; Abattoirs.; Animal behaviour.; Animal health.; Animal production.; Aquatic animals.; Aquatic organisms.; Behaviour.; Domestic animals.; Draught animals.; Ethics.; Euthanasia.; Fish culture.; Guidelines.; Handling.; Livestock.; Methodology.; Pain.; Poultry.; Regulations.; Slaughter.; Standards.; Stress.; Stress response.; Stunning.; Surgery.; Surgical operations.; Technology transfer.; Transport of animals.; Working animals.
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 This book contains 16 chapters on the measurement and assessment of animal welfare. Topics include the social and ethical aspects of animal welfare, standards and scoring systems for assessing welfare on farms and abattoirs, good stockmanship and improvement of handling procedures to reduce stress and benefit the animals, painful surgical procedures and welfare during transport of livestock and poultry, wellbeing and behavioural needs of animals in farms, improvement of welfare during slaughter in abattoirs with auditing programmes, recommended euthanasia practices, the economic impact on animal welfare, practical approaches for improving welfare, methods for improving the welfare of working/draught animals, technology transfer of behavioural and welfare research to farms and abattoirs and the importance of behavioural needs of animals. An index and a list of useful websites are also included. This book will be useful to students and animal welfare specialist trainees, as well as for veterinarians, managers and animal scientists to implement effective practical programmes to improve animal welfare.