Livestock handling and transport /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2014.
• Edition: 4th edition.
• Subjects: Livestock > Handling.; Livestock > Transportation.; Livestock > Effect of stress on.; Laws and Regulations.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Behaviour.; Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition); Animal Welfare.; Cleaning, Grading, Handling, Storage and Transport Equipment.; Techniques and Methodology.; Abattoirs.; Animal behaviour.; Animal welfare.; Domestic animals.; Handling.; Livestock.; Livestock transporters.; Methodology.; Poultry.; Regulations.; Restraint of animals.; Stress.; Stress response.; Transport of animals.
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This practical book integrates scientific research and industry literature on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, goats, deer, and horses, in both the developed and developing world, to provide a practical guide to humane handling and minimizing animal stress. Reviewing the latest research on transport sy...

Table of Contents:

• A Whole Systems Approach to Assessing Animal Welfare During Handling and Restraint / Temple Grandin
• General Principles of Stress and Well-being / Paul B. Siegel and Christa F. Honaker
• Welfare of Transported Animals : Factors Influencing Welfare and Welfare Assessment / Donald M. Broom
• Behavioural Principles of Handling Cattle and Other Grazing Animals Under Extensive Conditions / Temple Grandin
• Low-stress Restraint, Handling and Sorting of Cattle / Joseph M. Stookey and Jon M. Watts
• Handling Cattle Raised in Close Association with People / Roger Ewbank and Miriam Parker
• Handling Facilities and Restraint of Extensively Raised Range Cattle / Temple Grandin
• Dairy Cattle Behaviour, Facilities, Handling, Transport, Automation and Well-being / Wendy K. Fulwider
• Cattle Transport by Road / Karen Schwartzkopf-Genswein and Temple Grandin
• Handling and Transport of Cattle and Pigs in South America / Mateus J.R. Paranhos da Costa, Stella M. Huertas, Ana C. Strappini and Carmen Gallo
• Behavioural Principles of Sheep Handling / Geoffrey D. Hutson (Updated by Temple Grandin)
• Design of Sheep Yards and Shearing Sheds / Adrian Barber and Robert B. Freeman
• Sheep Transport / Michael S. Cockram
• Dogs for Herding and Guarding Livestock / Lorna Coppinger and Raymond Coppinger
• Behavioural Principles of Pig Handling / Paul H. Hemsworth
• Transport of Pigs / E. (Bert) Lambooij
• Transport of Market Pigs : Improvements in Welfare and Economics / John J. McGlone, Anna K. Johnson, Avi Sapkota and Rebecca K. Kephart
• Handling and Transport of Horses / Katherine A. Houpt and Carissa L. Wickens
• Deer Handling and Transport / Pete Goddard
• Poultry Handling and Transport / Claire A. Weeks
• Stress Physiology of Animals During Transport / Toby G. Knowles, Paul D. Warriss and Kurt Vogel
• Improving Welfare and Reducing Stress on Animals at Slaughter Plants / Temple Grandin
• Principles of Biosecurity During Transport, Handling and Slaughter of Animals / Keith E. Belk and Temple Grandin.