Farm Animal Behaviour: Characteristics for Assessment of Health and Welfare

Completely updated and revised, and with a new author team, this second edition of Farm Animal Behaviour continues to provide essential information on normal and stereotypic behaviors in a wide variety of farm animals to help in the assessment and diagnosis of their welfare.

Its comprehensive coverage spans a range of farmed animals from horses, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs through to domesticated poultry, deer, ostrich and many other species. Innate, learned and social behaviors are described together with activity, vision and hearing to build a picture of normal behaviors presented in a clear and consistent way for each species. Outlined in detail are stereotypical behaviors, injuries and disease, resulting from improper management practices, are outlined. With quality color illustrations, key information can be found readily for those in a busy clinical setting.

Author: Ingvar Ekesbo, Stefan Gunnarsson
Publisher: Cabi
Published: 12/31/2018
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.60h x 7.40w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781786391391

About the Author
Ekesbo, Ingvar: - Ingvar Ekesbo as professor in Animal Hygiene at the Swedish Agricultural University's veterinary faculty, Ingvar Ekesbo, DVM, PhD, was deeply interested in research and education regarding the relationship between farm animal environment and animal health. He got deep practical experience of animal husbandry through part time clinical practice during forty years. He introduced ethology as discipline in the Swedish veterinary curriculum which led to the establishment in 1987 of a chair in ethology at his department, one of the first at any veterinary faculty. After his retirement he has been continuing research, education and consultancy. Ekesbo has been president of the International Society for Animal Hygiene, the International Society for Applied Ethology, Swedish representative in Council of Europe when the Farm Animal Welfare Convention was elaborated 1971-1976, and, member, and several years chairman, in the Council's Standing Committee for Farm Animal Welfare 1979-1998.Gunnarsson, Stefan: - Stefan Gunnarsson teaches at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

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