Nutrition and the Welfare of Farm Animals /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Series: | Animal Welfare,
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword (Phillips)
- Introduction on welfare and nutrition (Phillips)
- Hunger associated with restricted feeding systems (Tolkamp & D'Eath)
- Starvation of ruminant livestock (Hogan & Phillips)
- The use of feeding behaviour in the assessment of animal welfare (Nielsen, de Jong & DeVries)
- Nutrition affects immune function and inflammatory responses, with implications for health and welfare (Bertoni, Trevisi, Jos, Luigi & Spiridoula)
- Assessing Farm Animal Welfare from a Nutritional Perspective (Bach, von Keyserlingk, Widowski & Haley)
- Integrating nutrition and animal welfare in extensive systems (Villalba, Manteca, Vercoe, Maloney & Blache)
- Feeding cattle for improved productivity, health, and welfare in modern farming enterprises (Beever & Bach)
- Water and the welfare of farm animals (von Keyserlingk, Nielsen, Patience & Philips)
- Providing feed to livestock during emergencies (Roeder)
- Animal welfare, nutrition and economics: past, present and future (Phillips & Makkar).