By Temple Grandin
ISBN-10: 1845935411
ISBN-13: 9781845935412
This booklet includes sixteen chapters at the size and overview of animal welfare. themes comprise the social and moral elements of animal welfare, criteria and scoring platforms for assessing welfare on farms and abattoirs, stable stockmanship and development of dealing with systems to lessen tension and profit the animals, painful surgeries and welfare in the course of delivery of farm animals and fowl, health and behavioural wishes of animals in farms, development of welfare in the course of slaughter in abattoirs with auditing programmes, urged euthanasia practices, the industrial impression on animal welfare, useful techniques for bettering welfare, tools for bettering the welfare of working/draught animals, expertise move of behavioural and welfare learn to farms and abattoirs and the significance of behavioural wishes of animals. An index and a listing of helpful web content also are integrated. This publication can be priceless to scholars and animal welfare professional trainees, in addition to for veterinarians, managers and animal scientists to enforce potent useful programmes to enhance animal welfare. on hand In Print
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In 1950, the average dairy cow annually produced 2410 l (5314 lb) of milk per lactation. Fifty years later, it was close to 9072 l (20,000 lb) (Blaney, 2002). From 1995 to 2004 alone, milk production per cow increased 16%. The result is a milkbag on legs, and unstable legs at that. A high percentage of the US dairy herd is chronically lame and these cows suffer serious reproductive problems. Espejo et al. 6% of dairy cows housed in cubicle (freestall) barns were lame (see Chapter 1). Whereas in traditional agriculture, a milk cow could remain productive for 10 and even 15 years, today’s cow lasts slightly longer than two lactations, a result of metabolic burnout and the quest for ever-increasingly productive animals, hastened in the USA by the use of the hormone bovine somatotropin (BST) to further increase production.
On the other hand, if you take the FAWC view of welfare, your efficiency will be constrained by the need to acknowledge the animal’s natural behaviour and mental state, and to assure that there is minimal pain, fear, distress and discomfort – not factors in the CAST view of welfare unless they have a negative impact on economic productivity. Thus, in a real sense, sound science does not determine your concept of welfare; rather, your concept of welfare determines what counts as sound science! The failure to recognize the inescapable ethical component in the concept of animal welfare leads inexorably to those holding different ethical views talking past each other.
An example of a more 33 effective way to write the standard is that the pigs must have enough space so they can all lie down at the same time without being on top of each other. Some other examples of clearly written standards are: ammonia levels in an animal house must not exceed 10 ppm; and tail docking of dairy cows is prohibited. Some welfare standards require that animals must be housed on pasture. There should be a good definition of the minimum requirements for pasture. At what point does barren, overgrazed ground switch from being a pasture to a dirt lot?
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