
Advances in Sheep Welfare
Description
Key Features
- Brings together top researchers in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of recent advances in the understanding of sheep welfare and management
- Presents part of a wider series, Advances in Agricultural Animal Welfare, which provides comprehensive coverage of animal welfare of the world’s major farmed animals
- Highlights current advances and looks ahead to how sheep welfare management will develop in the next ten to fifteen years
Readership
Welfare research scientists as well as postgraduate students, Practicing vets involved in welfare assessment, NGOs interested in welfare assurance
Table of Contents
Part One: Introduction to Sheep Welfare
1. Advances in understanding in the biology and natural behavior of sheep
2. Overview of sheep production systems
3. Consumer and societal expectations for sheep products (meat and wool)
Part Two: New advances in sheep welfare assessment
4. New developments in our understanding of sheep cognition and emotional states
5. New physiological measures that indicate the biological cost of the challenge
Part Three: Current and future solutions to sheep welfare challenges
6. Genetic solutions
7. Reproductive management
8. Nutritional management
9. Predation control
10. Managing disease risks
11. Painful husbandry procedures
12. Transport and pre-slaughter management
13. Advanced livestock management solutions
14. Optimized welfare for sheep in research and teaching
Part Four: Sheep welfare beyond 2020
15. Future welfare challenges and potential for predicting and proactively managing emerging problems
Product details
- No. of pages: 318
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2017
- Published: August 15, 2017
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780081007181
- eBook ISBN: 9780081007273