Nutrition and the Welfare of Farm Animals

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Phillips, Clive J. C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Σειρά: Animal Welfare, 16
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Nutrition.; Veterinary medicine.; Agriculture.; Animal physiology.; Vertebrates.; Life Sciences.; Veterinary Medicine.; Animal Physiology.

This book explores the importance of good nutrition in ensuring an adequate standard of welfare for farm animals. It is often not realized that farm animals can suffer when they are fed unsuitable diets, which may be because these diets are more economic or the farmer does not know how to rectify po...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword (Phillips)
• Introduction on welfare and nutrition (Phillips)
• Hunger associated with restricted feeding systems (Tolkamp & D’Eath)
• Starvation of ruminant livestock (Hogan & Phillips)
• The use of feeding behaviour in the assessment of animal welfare (Nielsen, de Jong & DeVries)
• Nutrition affects immune function and inflammatory responses, with implications for health and welfare (Bertoni, Trevisi, Jos, Luigi & Spiridoula)
• Assessing Farm Animal Welfare from a Nutritional Perspective (Bach, von Keyserlingk, Widowski & Haley)
• Integrating nutrition and animal welfare in extensive systems (Villalba, Manteca, Vercoe, Maloney & Blache)
• Feeding cattle for improved productivity, health, and welfare in modern farming enterprises (Beever & Bach)
• Water and the welfare of farm animals (von Keyserlingk, Nielsen, Patience & Philips)
• Providing feed to livestock during emergencies (Roeder)
• Animal welfare, nutrition and economics: past, present and future (Phillips & Makkar).