Farm Animal Behaviour: Characteristics for Assessment of Health and Welfare

Description

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.