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

Redaktion: Edwards, Sandra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Animal welfare is an essential aspect of modern livestock production and a sound knowledge of animal behaviour is fundamentally important to understand animal welfare. The proposed content of this book is excellent and covers all major themes in the field of pig behaviour and welfare. The list of authors includes most of the best scientists in the area. Therefore, I am fully convinced that this book will become a must for anyone interested not only in pig welfare, but also in pig production in general."Dr Xavier Manteca, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain

With growing concern from consumers and regulatory agencies about the welfare of farmed animals such as pigs, the livestock sector must assess how animal welfare can be improved whilst ensuring livestock production remains economically and environmentally sustainable.

Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of pigs is a comprehensive review of key research in this important area. This collection reviews genetic and developmental factors affecting pig behaviour and current welfare issues at different production stages, as well as specific issues such as tail biting and castration. The book concludes with an assessment of ways to measure welfare, including techniques to monitor pig behaviour.

With its distinguished editor and international team of expert authors, Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of pigs will be a standard text for university researchers in pig/swine and veterinary science as well as ethology. It will also be a key reference for government and other agencies involved in regulating and monitoring farm animal welfare, as well as farmers and companies involved in pig production.

Dr Sandra Edwards is Emerita Professor in the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University, UK. Professor Edwards is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on pig welfare with over 300 publications in the field. She has won numerous awards, including from organisations such as UFAW, EAAP, RSPCA and BSAS. She is a former President of the British Society of Animal Science, a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, as well as a former member of the UK Farm Animal Welfare Council and the Animal Health and Welfare Panel of the European Food Safety Agency.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786764454
• Artikelnr.: 61101032

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Determinants of behaviour 1.Advances in understanding the genetics of pig behaviour: Lotta Rydhmer
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sweden; 2.Developmental influences on pig behaviour: Giuliana Miguel-Pacheco and Yolande M. Seddon
University of Saskatchewan
Canada; Part 2 Management of behaviour in different production stages 3.Optimising pig welfare in breeding and gestation: Paul H. Hemsworth
University of Melbourne
Australia; 4.Optimising sow and piglet welfare during farrowing and lactation: Emma M. Baxter
Animal Behaviour and Welfare Team
Animal and Veterinary Sciences Research Group
SRUC
UK; and Sandra Edwards
Newcastle University
UK; 5.Optimising pig welfare at the weaning and nursery stage: Nicole Kemper
University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
Germany; 6.Optimizing pig welfare in the growing and finishing stage: Arlene Garcia and John J. McGlone
Texas Tech University
USA; 7.Optimising pig welfare during transport
lairage and slaughter: Luigi Faucitano
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Canada; and Antonio Velarde
Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology
Spain; Part 3 Current welfare issues 8.Evidence of pain in piglets subjected to invasive management procedures: Armelle Prunier and Céline Tallet
PEGASE
INRAE
Institut Agro
France; and Dale Sandercock
Scotland's Rural College (SRUC)
UK; 9.Alternatives to castration of pigs: Emma Fàbrega
IRTA
Spain; 10.Understanding and preventing tail biting in pigs: Sandra Edwards
Newcastle University
UK; and Anna Valros
University of Helsinki
Finland ; 11.The role of enrichment in optimizing pig behaviour and welfare: Sandra Düpjan and Liza R. Moscovice
Institute of Behavioural Physiology - Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology Dummerstorf
Germany; and Birger Puppe
Institute of Behavioural Physiology - Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology Dummerstorf and University of Rostock
Germany; Part 4 Assessment of welfare states 12.Physiological and behavioral responses to disease in pigs: M. D. Pairis-Garcia and B. K. Wagner
North Carolina State University
USA; 13.Assessing emotions in pigs: determining negative and positive mental states: Eimear Murphy
Luca Melotti and Michael Mendl
Bristol Veterinary School
University of Bristol
UK; 14.Welfare assessment of pigs: Björn Forkman
University of Copenhagen
Denmark; 15.Advances in technologies for monitoring pig welfare: Maciej Oczak
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Austria; Kristina Maschat
FFoQSI GmbH
Austria; and Johannes Baumgartner
University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Austria;