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Advances in Sheep Welfare, Second Edition provides a detailed reference on advancements in sheep welfare. The book contains the most current knowledge on breeding practices, animal affective states, management strategies, farming and production practices, and the role of society and consumers in shaping the welfare debate. In addition to updating all chapters from the previous edition, completely new chapters are included on behavioral assessments of sheep welfare, the impact of climate change, and drivers of change for sheep producers. Stakeholders across the wool, dairy, and sheep meat supply chains will also benefit from this resource.
The book brings together a team of international experts to create the definitive resource on sheep welfare. It will serve as a key reference for researchers, instructors, and students at the post-graduate level who are interested in animal agriculture, especially those who study sheep and issues of animal welfare.
Contents
Part One: Introduction to sheep welfare
1. Understanding the natural behaviour of sheep
2. Overview of sheep production systems
3. Consumer and societal expectations for sheep products (wool, meat and dairy)
Part Two: New advances in sheep welfare assessment
4. Physiological markers of welfare state
5. Novel behavioural measures of sheep welfare
Part Three: Current and future solutions to welfare challenges
6. Genetic solutions
7. Reproductive management (including impacts of prenatal stress on offspring development)
8. Nutritional management
9. Predation control
10. Managing disease risks
11. Routine management procedures
12. Transport and pre-slaughter management
13. Advanced livestock management solutions (application)
14. Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies for sheep production systems: Implications for heat stress and feedbase
15. Drivers to practice change on-farm
Part Four: Sheep welfare beyond 2030
16. Sheep welfare - beyond 2030
