Farm Animal Behaviour : Characteristics for Assessment of Health and Welfare. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.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.

- Comprehensive coverage of 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 described together with activity, vision and hearing builds a picture of normal behaviors presented in a clear and consistent way for each species
- Stereotypical behaviors, injuries and disease, resulting from improper management practices, outlined in detail
- Quality color illustrations and key information readily found for those in a busy clinical setting
- Contributions from key expert authors

Farm Animal Behaviour, second edition, provides a comprehensive yet concise background for all students, postgraduates and practitioners in veterinary medicine, animal science welfare and ethology.

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 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.

Stefan Gunnarsson has been Senior lecturer in Sustainable animal production at the Dept. of Animal Environment and Health, SLU since 2012. He has been project leader for several research projects in poultry health and welfare and coordinator of BroilerNet, a thematic network within the broiler sector. He has been Scientific reviewer and member of several national and international expert groups and was the Chairman of the WOAH Working group on animal welfare for laying hens. Stefan Gunnarson's scientific expertise focuses on the relation between health and behaviour in pigs, poultry and other species. Furthermore, he has a great interest in system analysis of sustainable agriculture.