
Advances in Poultry Welfare
Description
Key Features
- Provides in-depth reviews of emerging topics, research and applications in poultry welfare
- Integral part of a wider series, Advances in Agricultural Animal Welfare, which will provide comprehensive coverage of animal welfare of the world’s major farmed animals
- Covers a range of topical issues within the field, from beak-trimming and skeletal problems, to early rearing and the design and management of poultry production systems
- Edited by a distinguished leader in the field
Readership
Animal Welfare research scientists as well as postgraduate students, Animal production researcher scientists, Practising vets involved in welfare assessment, NGOs interested in animal welfare
Table of Contents
Part One: Introduction
1. Overview of commercial poultry production systems and their main welfare challengesPart Two: Management: Hatch to Slaughter
2. The effects of hatchery practices on the welfare of poultry
3. Rearing young birds for adaptability
4. Gas and low atmospheric pressure stunningPart Three: Welfare Assessment on the Farm
6. Welfare assessment of poultry on the farm:
7. Poultry welfare assessment on the farm: Focusing on the individualPart Four: Continuing Challenges
8. Skeletal problems in contemporary commercial laying hens
9. Feather pecking and cannibalism: can we really stop beak trimming?
10. Sustainability of laying hen housing systems
11. Stocking density: Can we judge how much space poultry need?
12. Understanding social behavior for better flock management
13. Welfare issues in turkey productionPart Five: Emerging Issues
14. The future of poultry pest management
15. Using genetic approaches to improve host responses to environmental stressors
16. Backyard flock production
17. Mass depopulation
Product details
- No. of pages: 408
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2017
- Published: November 20, 2017
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780081009154
- eBook ISBN: 9780081009307