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 a...

Table of Contents:

• The importance of measurement to improve the welfare of livestock, poultry and fish / Temple Grandin
• Why is agricultural animal welfare important? The social and ethnical context / Bernard Rollin
• Implementing effective standards and scoring systems for assessing animal welfare on farms and slaughter plants / Temple Grandin
• The importance of good stockmanship and its benefits for the animals / Jeffrey Rushen and Anne Marie de Passillé
• How to improve livestock handling and reduce stress / Temple Grandin
• Painful husbandry procedures in livestock and poultry / Kevin J. Stafford and David J. Mellor
• Welfare during transport of livestock and poultry / Temple Grandin
• Animal well-being and behavioral needs on the farm / Lily N. Edwards
• Improving livestock, poultry, and fish welfare in slaughter plants with auditing programmes / Temple Grandin
• Recommended on-farm euthanasia practices / Jennifer Woods, Jan K. Shearer, and Jeff Hill
• The effect of economic factors on the welfare of livestock and poultry / Temple Grandin
• Improving animal welfare : practical approaches for achieving change / Helen R. Whay and David C. Main
• Practical methods for improving the welfare of horses, donkeys, and other working draught animals in developing areas / Camie R. Heleski, Amy K. McLean and Janice C. Swanson
• Successful technology transfer of behavioural and animal welfare research to the farm and slaughter plant / Temple Grandin
• Why are behavioural needs important? / Tina Widowski.