Completely revised and updated throughout, this new edition of Improving Animal Welfare: A Practical Approach continues to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to improving the lives of production animals. It particularly considers advances in topics of increasing importance such as heat stress and other climate-related issues, system-specific considerations around organic farming, measuring the true sustainability of farming systems, and how to successfully transfer rapidly developing technologies from research to field. It also covers: - Core concepts of animal welfare, such as handling and transport, stockmanship, husbandry procedures and euthanasia, with an increased focus on replacing painful procedures with alternatives. - The wider context of welfare, including animal behaviour and emotions, ethics and economic factors. - Implementing effective measurement techniques to track and improve welfare, as well auditing procedures. - Practical species-specific information across cattle, pigs, poultry, fish and equids. Written by a team of experienced researchers and edited by an outstanding world expert on animal welfare, this book is essential reading for students and practitioners of ethology, animal and veterinary science, veterinary medicine, as well as anyone working directly with farm animals and committed to improving their welfare.
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Suitable for students and practitioners of ethology, animal and veterinary science and veterinary medicine, as well as anyone working directly with farm animals, such as industry consultants, animal welfare field officers and policy makers.
1: The Importance of Positive Experiences for Animals and Implementing
an Effective Animal Welfare Program 2: The Importance of Measurement to
Improve the Welfare of Livestock, Poultry, and Fish 3: Why is Agricultural
Animal Welfare Important? The Social and Ethical Context 4: Implementing
Effective Animal Based Measurements for Assessing Animal Welfare on Farms and
Slaughter Plants 5: How to Improve Livestock Handling and Reduce Stress 6:
Painful Husbandry Procedures in Livestock and Poultry 7: The Importance of
Good Stockmanship and Its Benefits to Animals 8: Animal Behavior and Emotions
On Farm Considerations 9: Improving Livestock, Poultry, and Fish Welfare in
Slaughter Plants with Auditing Programs and Animal Based Measures 10:
Recommended On-farm Euthanasia Practices 11: Welfare During Transport of
Livestock and Poultry 12: Animal Welfare on Organic Farms 13: Which
Agricultural Practices are Really Sustainable? Answers for Beef, Dairy, and
Poultry Producers 14: The Effect of Economic Factors on the Welfare of
Livestock and Poultry 15: Improving Animal Care and Welfare: Practical
Approaches for Achieving Change 16: Successful Technology Transfer of
Behavioural and Animal Welfare Research to the Farm and Slaughter Plant 17:
Future of Animal Welfare Technological Innovations for Individualized
Animal Care 18: Technology Designed to Enhance Poultry Welfare 19: Precision
Livestock Farming and Technology in Swine Welfare 20: Practical Methods for
Improving the Welfare of Equids, Horses, Donkeys, and Mules
Temple Grandin is Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Dr. Grandin's work includes design of animal handling systems, research on livestock behaviour, and auditing animal welfare. She has visited 26 countries and has served on the OIE animal welfare ad hoc committee for slaughter. Her previous livestock books include Livestock Handling and Transport, Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals and Humane Livestock Handling. Her popular press books on animal behaviour have been both U.S. and international bestsellers. Throughout her career, Dr. Grandin has worked to combine scientific research results with practical application in the field. In the North America half, the cattle are handled in equipment she designed for meat plants. She has received awards for her work on animal welfare from both the livestock industry and animal welfare NGOs. She has awards from The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, The American Meat Institute, American Society for Animal Science and the Humane Society of the U.S.
