Nutrition and the Welfare of Farm Animals

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Phillips, Clive J. C. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Animal Welfare ; 16
Subjects:
Agriculture.
Veterinary medicine.
Physiology.
Nutrition   .
Vertebrates.
Veterinary Science.
Animal Physiology.
Nutrition.
Vertebrate Zoology.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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).

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