Achieving Sustainable Production of Milk Volume 3 - Dairy Herd Management and Welfare

Animal health and welfare are of major importance in dairy farming. This collection looks at the key issues affecting dairy herd welfare as well as ways of optimising dairy cattle nutrition. It also reviews ways of detecting, preventing and managing diseases affecting dairy cattle.

A propos de l'auteur

Dr John Webster is Emeritus Professor in Animal Husbandry at the University of Bristol, UK. He established the Animal Welfare and Behaviour Group at the University of Bristol, one of the largest and most highly-regarded of its kind in the world, and was a founder member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council which pioneered the Five Freedoms for farm animals. Professor Webster is editor of an earlier Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing volume: Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 3: Dairy herd management and welfare (published in 2017). Other key books written or edited by Professor Webster include Understanding the Dairy Cow and Animal Husbandry Regained: the place of farm animals in sustainable agriculture.

Résumé

Animal health and welfare are of major importance in dairy farming. This collection looks at the key issues affecting dairy herd welfare as well as ways of optimising dairy cattle nutrition. It also reviews ways of detecting, preventing and managing diseases affecting dairy cattle.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Nick Bell, Dr. Carmen Gallo, Delia Grace, Jan Hultgren, John Mcnamara, Clive Phillips, Jennie E. Pryce, Jeffrey Rushen, Dr. Pilar Sepulveda
• Collaboration: Emeritus John Webster (Editeur), John Webster (Editeur), Prof. John Webster (Editeur)
• Edition: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781786760524
• ISBN: 978-1-78676-052-4
• Pages: 606
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 37 mm
• Poids: 1016 g
• Thèmes: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agric; Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science; Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
• Catégorie: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Technique > Autres