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The welfare of sheep / [edited by] Cathy M. Dwyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Animal welfare (Springer) ; v. 6.
- Animal welfare ; v. 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sheep.
- Animal welfare.
- Animals, Domestic--physiology.
- Behavior, Animal.
- Animals.
- Medical Subjects:
- Animals, Domestic--physiology.
- Behavior, Animal.
- Animals.
- Sheep.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 366 pages) : illustrations (some color.
- Contained In:
- Springer eBooks
- Place of Publication:
- [Dordrecht] : Springer, [2008]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- The welfare of the sheep has received less attention than the welfare of intensively husbanded animals. However, domestic sheep may be kept under conditions that are very different from the environment in which wild sheep live, with adverse effects on their behaviour and welfare. This book, written by leading researchers from Europe and Australia, takes a multidisciplinary approach to focus on the specific welfare challenges facing the sheep.
- The book begins with a discussion of current welfare thinking and how this might be relevant to sheep husbandry. The adaptations of wild sheep to diverse environments, and how their behaviour and physiology has developed to deal with these conditions is described and compared to conditions in modern sheep husbandry. The varied welfare demands of disease, nutrition and metabolism, farming systems and management practices are then discussed by specialists in those areas. The book concludes by considering the economics of improved welfare, and by describing breeding goals and new challenges and opportunities for good sheep husbandry. This book will be of interest to students and academics in animal welfare, animal production, and veterinary medicine, and those with a particular interest in or concern for sheep.
- Contents:
- Introduction to animal welfare and the sheep / C.M. Dwyer and A.B. Lawrence
- Environment and the sheep / C.M. Dwyer
- Behaviour and the welfare of the sheep / R. Nowak [and others]
- Sheep senses, social cognition and capacity for consciousness / K.M. Kendrick
- The impact of disease and disease prevention on welfare in sheep / P.A. Roger
- Farming systems for sheep production and their effect on welfare / R.J. Kilgour [and others]
- Nutrition and the welfare of sheep / J.P. Hogan, C.J.C. Phillips, and S. Agenäs
- The management of sheep / P.J. Goddard
- The economics of sheep welfare / C.E. Milne, A.W. Stott, and J.M. Santarossa
- Sheep welfare: a future perspective / A.B. Lawrence and J. Conington.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Welfare of sheep.
- ISBN:
- 9781402085536
- 1402085532
- Publisher Number:
- 99990270303
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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