Overview
- Covers welfare issues of both dairy and beef cattle across the range of husbandry systems
- Includes precision livestock farming and sustainability in dairying
- Addresses emerging topics in cattle welfare using international case studies
Part of the book series: Animal Welfare (AWNS, volume 23)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Challenges and Solutions in Different Management Systems for Cattle
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Cattle Welfare in Different Contexts
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Cattle welfare: culture and sustainability interactions
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About this book
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the welfare of cattle. It starts with a consideration of animal welfare science and its application to the management of cattle and moves through to discussions of the challenges and opportunities for providing good welfare for cattle in farming and husbandry systems across the globe. The first section comprises three chapters that discuss the social, behavioural and physiological methods that can be used to assess welfare in cattle. The second section considers the welfare challenges of beef and dairy cattle in extensive and intensive systems. The third section details welfare challenges such as at slaughter, during handling and in the growing period and details solutions such as the use of sensors and application of animal breeding techniques. The final section addresses welfare challenges and solutions in achieving sustainability, in smallholder farms in Africa and new entrant dairying in Asia and cow shelters in India.
This work makes a valuable contribution to the field of animal welfare and modern livestock farming. It is a must-read for researchers and students, veterinarians as well as industry personnel and informed farmers and producers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Marie Haskell is Professor of Animal Welfare Science at SRUC (Scotland’s Rural College), based in Edinburgh, UK. She completed her undergraduate degree at Massey University, New Zealand, followed by a PhD at the University of Melbourne. Her research has involved the use of behavioural techniques in understanding and improving animal welfare. Together with students and other scientists, she has sought to understand how fundamental animal abilities and attributes, such as personality, genetic make-up and cognitive and emotional abilities affect the way animals interact with their environments and how this influences their welfare. Building on these principles, she has been involved in developing behavioural indicators for use in welfare assessment tools. She principally works with cattle, but has research experience with pigs, hens, salmon and dogs.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cattle Welfare in Dairy and Beef Systems
Book Subtitle: A New Approach to Global Issues
Editors: Marie Haskell
Series Title: Animal Welfare
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21020-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21019-8Published: 11 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21022-8Due: 12 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21020-4Published: 10 November 2023
Series ISSN: 1572-7408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 466
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 70 illustrations in colour
Topics: Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Animal Physiology, Genetics and Genomics, Agriculture