Full Description
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
1. Understanding the natural behavior of sheep
2. Overview of sheep production systems
3. Consumer and societal expectations for sheep products (wool, meat and dairy)
4. Sheep cognition and implications for welfare
5. New physiological measures of the biological costs to responding to challenges
6. Novel behavioral measures of sheep welfare
Current and future solutions to welfare challenges
7. Genetic solutions
8. Reproductive management (including impacts of prenatal stress on offspring development)
9. Nutritional management
10. Predation control
11. Managing disease risks
12. Husbandry procedures
13. Transport and pre-slaughter management
14. Advanced livestock management solutions (application)
15. Adapting to climate change
16. Drivers to practice change on-farm
17. Optimized welfare for sheep in research and teaching
18. Sheep welfare - beyond 2030
