Management and Welfare of Farm Animals (eBook)

John Webster is Emeritus Professor of Animal Husbandry at the University of Bristol. Author of the widely acclaimed Animal Welfare: A Cool Eye Towards Eden and Animal Welfare: Limping Towards Eden, he is the founding father of the Bristol Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science group that has gathered evidence and pioneered the arguments necessary to achieve improved welfare standards for veal calves, broiler chickens, laying hens and dairy cows. UFAW is an internationally recognised, independent, scientific and educational animal welfare charity concerned with improving knowledge and understanding of animals' needs in order to promote high standards of welfare for farm, companion, laboratory, captive wild animals and those with which we interact in the wild.

Contributors.

Foreword.

Preface.

Acronyms and abbreviations.

1 Husbandry and Animal Welfare (John Webster).

2 Behaviour as an Indicator of Animal Welfare (Christine
Nicol).

3 Dairy Cattle (Jean Margerison).

4 Beef Cattle and Veal Calves (Bernadette Earley).

5 Sheep (Pete Goddard).

6 Pigs (Sandra Edwards).

7 Laying Hens (Graham Scott).

8 Broiler Chickens (Susan Haslam).

9 Goats (Alan Mowlem).

10 Red Deer (Alison Hanlon).

11 Horses and Donkeys (Helen (Becky) Whay).

12 Farmed Fish (Tony Wall).

13 South American Camelids (Cristian Bonacic).

14 Turkeys (Stephen Lister).

15 Ducks (Keith Gooderham).

16 Game Birds (David Welchman).

17 Ostrich (Fiona Benson).

18 Assessment, Implementation and Promotion of Farm Animal
Welfare (David Main and John Webster).

Index.

"This book is unique in that it pulls together information
and knowledge from a number of sources and provides valuable
insights into how any particular species has been used over the
years for production ... The authors present all of this
information in a very factual, thought-provoking
manner." (Doody's, 25 May 2012)