The Welfare of Farmed Ratites

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Glatz, Phil (Editor), Lunam, Christine (Editor), Malecki, Irek (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Edition: First.
• Series: Animal Welfare, 11
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Agriculture.; Animal ecology.; Zoology.; Wildlife.; Fish.; Life Sciences.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.; Animal Ecology.

This volume reviews, for the first time, the broad range of issues that affect the welfare of commercially farmed ratites.  Although ratites incorporate several families of flightless birds this book focuses on the most commonly farmed ratites, the ostrich, emu and rhea. The readers are taken on a j...