Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of dairy cattle (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Endres, Marcia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• Particularly strong focus on understanding dairy cattle behaviour as the foundation for improving welfare in such areas as cognition and learning, pain and stress as well as social behaviour
• Covers developments in more animal/outcome-based welfare indicators as well as advanced sensor, acoustic and video techniques for monitoring behaviour and welfare
• Comprehensive review of welfare issues across the value chain, from calves and heifers to culling

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786764614
• Artikelnr.: 61250128

Inhaltsangabe

1.Dairy cattle welfare and other aspects of sustainability: Donald M. Broom
University of Cambridge
UK; Part 1 Understanding behaviour 2.Advances in understanding cognition and learning in cattle: Maria Vilain Rørvang
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sweden; and Christian Nawroth
Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology
Germany; 3.Advances in understanding pain and stress in cows: Kenneth M. D. Rutherford and Marie J. Haskell
Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)
UK; Part 2 Welfare indicators and monitoring 4.Developing effective welfare measures for cattle: Ute Knierim
University of Kassel
Germany; Christoph Winckler
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Austria; and Luc Mounier and Isabelle Veissier
Université Clermont Auvergne
INRAE
VetAgro Sup
France; 5.Advances in precision livestock farming techniques for monitoring dairy cattle welfare: Henk Hogeveen and Mariska van der Voort
Wageningen University and Research
The Netherlands; 6.Developing effective training and certification schemes for improving on-farm dairy cattle welfare: Antoni Dalmau and Antonio Velarde
IRTA
Spain; Part 3 Improving welfare practices 7.Developments in housing of cattle to promote health and welfare: Nigel B. Cook
University of Wisconsin-Madison
USA; 8.Advances in understanding behavioral needs and improving the welfare of calves and heifers: Emily Miller-Cushon
University of Florida
USA; and Jennifer Van Os
University of Wisconsin-Madison
USA; 9.Advances in understanding the needs and improving the welfare of transition dairy cows: Julia Lomb
University of British Columbia
Canada; and Kathryn L. Proudfoot
University of Prince Edward Island
Canada; 10.Optimizing welfare in transport and slaughter of cattle: Jan Shearer
Iowa State University
USA;