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This authoritative textbook provides an introduction and guide to poultry behaviour and welfare. It describes the origin and biology of the various species of bird that are of agricultural importance, as well as giving a succinct overview of their key behaviour patterns. There is careful discussion of the many factors that influence their welfare, and detailed consideration of the ways in which legislation and commercial interests interact in an attempt to satisfy the many needs involved. The final chapters discuss possible future developments within the subject. The book is in part an update of a previous work, Poultry Production Systems: Behaviour, Management and Welfare (CABI, 1992), completely rewritten and with much new material added.
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is a veterinary surgeon, now retired, who worked from 1966 to 2004 at the Poultry Research Centre and the Roslin Institute at Edinburgh. His research was on poultry behaviour and welfare, focussing especially on specific appetites, laying behaviour, egg shell quality, feather pecking and housing systems. He headed the Ethology Department from 1988 to 1997 and was Institute Named Veterinary Surgeon and Chair of the Ethics Committee from 1993 to 2004. He was also a Tutor in the Open University on Biology, Brain and Behaviour and Lecturer on Edinburgh University's MSc course in Applied Animal Behaviour and Welfare. He was Editor of British Poultry Science from 1985 to 2010 and remains on the Editorial Board.
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This authoritative textbook provides an introduction and guide to poultry behaviour and welfare. It describes the origin and biology of the various species of bird that are of agricultural importance, as well as giving a succinct overview of their key behaviour patterns.
