Advances in Pig Welfare
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Advances in Pig Welfare

1st Edition - November 10, 2017

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  • Editor: Irene Camerlink
  • eBook ISBN: 9780081011195
  • Hardcover ISBN: 9780081010129

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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. Part One opens with an overview of main welfare challenges in commercial pig production systems and then reviews pig welfare hot spots from birth to slaughter. Part Two highlights emerging topics in pig welfare, such as pain and health assessment, early socialization and environmental enrichment, pig-human interactions, breeding for welfare, positive pig welfare and pigs as laboratory animals. This book is an essential part of the wider ranging series Advances in Farm Animal Welfare, with coverage of cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. With its expert editor and international team of contributors, Advances in Pig Welfare is a key reference tool for welfare research scientists and students, veterinarians involved in welfare assessment, and indeed anyone with a professional interest in the welfare of pig.

Key Features

  • Provides in-depth reviews of emerging topics, research, and applications in pig welfare
  • Analyzes on-farm assessment of pig welfare, an extremely important marker for the monitoring of real welfare impacts of any changes in husbandry systems
  • Edited by a leader in the field of pig welfare, with contributing experts from veterinary science, welfare academia, and practitioners in industry

Readership

Animal Welfare research scientists, Postgraduate students, Policy makers and stakeholders, R&D managers

Table of Contents

  • Part One: Pig Welfare Hotspots
    1. Overview of commercial pig production systems and their main welfare challenges
    2. Sow welfare in the farrowing crate and alternatives.
    3. Piglet mortality and morbidity: inevitable or unacceptable?
    4. Lifetime consequences of the early physical and social environment of piglets
    5. Tail biting
    6. Chains as proper enrichment for intensively-farmed pigs?
    7. Mitigating hunger in pregnant sows
    8. Aggression in group housed sows and fattening pigs
    9. Transport of pigs to slaughter and associated handling 
    10. Slaughter of pigs
    Part Two: Pig Welfare Emerging Topics
    11. Pain in pigs: Characterisation, mechanisms and indicators
    12. On-farm and post-mortem health assessment
    13. Pig-human interactions: Creating a positive perception of humans to ensure pig welfare
    14. Breeding for pig welfare; opportunities and challenges
    15. Positive welfare: What does it add to the debate over pig welfare 
    16. Pigs as laboratory animals


     

Product details

  • No. of pages: 506
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2017
  • Published: November 10, 2017
  • Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
  • eBook ISBN: 9780081011195
  • Hardcover ISBN: 9780081010129

About the Editor

Irene Camerlink

Irene Camerlink March 2020 – current – Assistant professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. Institute of Genetics and Animal Breeding. She received her PhD in Animal Science from Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Animal Breeding and Genomics Centre; Research expertise is on swine: Indirect genetic effects on growth rate and their effect on behaviour and production of pigs in different environments’; Animal and human behaviour, animal welfare, social behaviour, interdisciplinary research, pigs, early life development, cognitive function, indirect genetic effects, behavioural genetics. She has received over 15 research awards, is an editorial board member of Nature, a Review Editor for Frontiers in Veterinary Sciences, a Reviewer for Scientific Reports, Animal Behaviour, Royal Society Open Science, Journal of Animal Science, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Animal, Animals, Animal Genetics, Translational Animal Science, Sustainability, Information Processing in Agriculture. Published ~40 articles, ~28 Conference proceedings.

Affiliations and Expertise

Assistant Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

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  • Gareth P. Mon May 14 2018

    Advances in Pig Welfare

    Good up to date review