Advances in Pig Welfare (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Camerlink, Irene; Baxter, Emma M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Advances in Pig Welfare, Second Edition continues its complete coverage of key areas of pig welfare assessment, management and improvement. The book covers both recent developments and reviews of historical welfare issues, with 12 new chapters addressing the most relevant and significant issues from a global perspective. Sections review the needs of pigs, including chapters on the physical environment and the social and emotional needs of the animals, key welfare issues in the pig's lifecycle from birth to slaughter, including weaning, aggression and pig-human interactions, and emerging topics such as prenatal stress, individual differences and organic farming.

Final sections cover pig welfare and attitudes towards pig welfare amongst farmers and other stakeholders. Written by an international team of leaders in the field, the book continues to be a useful resource for practicing vets involved in welfare assessment, welfare research scientists and students, and indeed anyone with a professional interest in the welfare of pigs.

• Provides the most recent research applications in pig welfare
• Analyzes on-farm assessments of pig welfare, an extremely important marker for the monitoring of real welfare with impacts and implications for changes in other husbandry systems
• Includes factors that affect pig welfare, how to practically control these factors, and the impact that these factors have on animal health
• Provides new chapters on economics, husbandry, environment, climate change and precision livestock

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 628
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780323915731
• Artikelnr.: 69095607

Inhaltsangabe

Part One Introduction 1 Pigs¿ needs and wants 2 Pain in pigs:
Characterisation and indicators 3 Stress in pigs: History, assessment, and
interpretation 4 Affective states and cognition in pigs 5 Positive welfare:
What does it add to the debate over pig welfare? Part Two Pig welfare
hotspots and mitigation 6 Overview of commercial pig production systems and
their main welfare challenges 7 Mitigating hunger in pregnant sows 8 Sow
longevity 9 Sow welfare in farrowing accommodation 10 Piglet mortality and
morbidity: Inevitable or unacceptable? 11 Lifetime consequences of the
early physical and social environment of piglets 12 Managing tail biting in
pigs: Preventing risk factors or docking tails? 13 Gaining and maintaining
interest: Recent advances in enrichment for pigs 14 Aggression in
group-housed sows, weaners, and grower-finisher pigs 15 Transport of pigs
to slaughter and associated handling 16 Slaughter of pigs Part Three Pig
welfare management topics 17 On-farm and post-mortem health assessment 18
Pig-human interactions: Creating a positive perception of humans to ensure
pig welfare 19 Breeding for pig welfare: Opportunities and challenges 20
Precision livestock farming and technology in pig husbandry 21 Pigs as
laboratory animals Part Four Pig welfare from a global perspective 22 How
much do people care about pig welfare, and how much will they pay for it?
23 Global developments in pig welfare: From legislation to market-driven
change 24 The economics of pig welfare 000 25 Effects of climate change on
pig welfare 26 Farmer attitudes towards pig welfare