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  • Developing smart agri-food supply chains

    Using technology to improve safety and quality

    Series Book 112 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Highlights current issues that challenge the safety of agri-food supply chains (e.g. food adulteration, malicious contamination)Assesses the recent developments implemented to improve safety and quality at all levels of the agri-food supply chain, including the use of smart agri-food systemsEmphasis on the need for improved tracking and traceability systems of food products to prevent and manage ... Read more

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  • Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of pigs

    Series Book 96 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Emphasises advances in understanding pig behaviour as the foundation for understanding and improving welfareComprehensive coverable of welfare issues across the value chain, covering breeding and gestation, farrowing and lactation, weaning, growing and finishing as well as transport, lairage and slaughterParticular focus on ways of assessing and reducing pain in such areas as tail docking and ... Read more

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  • Dr. Kinney and the Rabid Revenants

    Dr. Alida Kinney starts her veterinary career by moving to the strange town of Dedden. She soon learns that this is no ordinary place. Dr. Rétoon, the elderly veterinarian she works for, can heal animals with just his touch, Dr. Kinney is haunted by the ghosts of two Irish Wolfhounds connected to the veterinary hospital, and a war is brewing between shape shifting sprites that now call Dedden home ... Read more

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  • Instant Insights: Improving piglet welfare

    Series Book 18 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on improving piglet welfare.The first chapter reviews the main welfare challenges faced during farrowing and lactation, including the occurrence of painful husbandry procedures, such as tooth resection, tail docking and castration. The chapter also highlights various mitigation strategies that can be implemented to optimise the welfare ... Read more

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  • Instant Insights: Improving the welfare of growing and finishing pigs

    Series Book 99 - Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
    This book features four peer-reviewed reviews on improving the welfare of growing and finishing pigs.The first chapter begins by defining animal welfare in the context of pig production. The chapter discusses pig behaviour and how this can be affected by intensive production systems, group size, living conditions, as well as systems for monitoring animal health and care.The second chapter explores ... Read more

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  • Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 3

    Animal health and welfare

    Series Book 25 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews latest research on diseases affecting pigs and their managementComprehensive review of pig welfare across the life-cycle, from gilts and sows to weaned piglets and finishing pigsIncludes generic welfare issues such as the role of pasture-based systems, humane transport, lairage and slaughter techniques ... Read more

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    Series series American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
    Laboratory Animal Welfare provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look into the new science of animal welfare within laboratory research. Animals specifically considered include rodents, cats and dogs, nonhuman primates, agricultural animals, avian animals and aquatic animals. The book examines the impact of experiment design and environment on animal welfare, as well as emergency situations and ... Read more

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  • Understanding the behaviour and improving the welfare of chickens

    Series Book 91 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Very strong focus on key advances in understanding chicken behaviour, including sensory perception, pain and stress responses, learning and cognition as well as social behaviourCoverage of latest wearable, video and acoustic technologies to monitor chicken welfareComprehensive coverage of welfare issues across the value chain, from hatcheries to catching, transport and slaughter ... Read more

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  • The Welfare of Farmed Ratites

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume reviews, for the first time, the broad range of issues that affect the welfare of commercially farmed ratites. Although ratites incorporate several families of flightless birds this book focuses on the most commonly farmed ratites, the ostrich, emu and rhea. The readers are taken on a journey through all sectors of the industry, which include breeding, incubation, hatching, brooding, ... Read more

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  • Advances in Sheep Welfare

    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition
    Advances in Sheep Welfare examines the recent advances made in sheep welfare assessment, handling and management, providing state-of-the-art coverage of the welfare needs of one of the world's most widely farmed animals. The book begins with an introduction to sheep welfare in Part One, with chapters covering biology and natural behavior, sheep production systems, and consumer and societal ... Read more

    $220.99 CAD