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Informationen zum Autor Drewe Ferguson leads the Livestock Systems Program within CSIRO Agriculture and Food. He is recognized for his research in advancing livestock welfare through improvements in livestock resilience and management and husbandry practices. Caroline Lee leads the animal behavior and welfare team at CSIRO, Australia. Her research interests include developing novel methods to assess affective states, assessing cognition and learning and improving welfare assessment of farm animals. Andrew Fisher is Chair of Cattle and Sheep Production Medicine and Director of the Animal Welfare Science Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has significant experience in animal welfare research, with a particular focus on production animal management, transport and pain management. He is also actively involved in the translation of animal welfare research into public and organizational policy. Klappentext Advances in Sheep Welfare examines the recent advances made in sheep welfare assessment, handling and management providing state-of-the-art coverage of the welfare needs of one of the world's most widely farmed animals. . The book is divided into three main sections. The first deals with advances in sheep welfare assessment with chapters covering sheep cognition, physiological measures and welfare risk assessment and management. The second section covers advances in sheep handling and management. Chapters within this section provide information on the latest developments from around the world in genetic solutions, reproductive and nutritional management, managing disease risks and painful husbandry procedures amongst others. The final section looks ahead to the future, and to what sheep welfare will look like in 2030 and beyond. . The book is an essential part of the wider ranging series Advances in Agricultural Animal Welfare, with coverage of cattle, pigs, poultry and aquaculture. . . With its distinguished editors and international team of contributors, Advances in Sheep Welfare is set to be a standard reference for welfare research scientists and students, practising vets involved in welfare assessment, and indeed anyone with a professional interest in the welfare of sheep. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Introduction to Sheep Welfare 1. Advances in understanding in the biology and natural behavior of sheep 2. Overview of sheep production systems 3. Consumer and societal expectations for sheep products (meat and wool) Part Two: New advances in sheep welfare assessment 4. New developments in our understanding of sheep cognition and emotional states 5. New physiological measures that indicate the biological cost of the challenge Part Three: Current and future solutions to sheep welfare challenges 6. Genetic solutions 7. Reproductive management 8. Nutritional management 9. Predation control 10. Managing disease risks 11. Painful husbandry procedures 12. Transport and pre-slaughter management 13. Advanced livestock management solutions 14. Optimized welfare for sheep in research and teaching Part Four: Sheep welfare beyond 2020 15. Future welfare challenges and potential for predicting and proactively managing emerging problems ...
