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Cattle behaviour and welfare / Clive Phillips.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell Science, 2002.Edition: 2nd edDescription: viii, 264 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780632056453 (pbk.) :
  • 0632056452(pbk.)
Other title:
  • Cattle behaviour [Other title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 636.2083 PHI
LOC classification:
  • SF202
Incomplete contents:
Introduction to cattle welfare -- 2.The welfare of dairy cows -- 3.The welfare of beef cattle and draft oxen -- 4.The welfare of calves -- 5.The welfare of cattle during transport, marketing and slaughter -- 6.Environmental perception and cognition -- 7.Acquisition of behaviour and the use of selective breeding to improve welfare -- 8.Play behaviour -- 9.Social behaviour -- 10.Nutritional behaviour -- 11.Reproductive behaviour -- 12.Locomotion and movement -- 13.Resting behaviour -- 14.Behavioural adaptation to inadequate environments -- 15.The relationship between cattle and man.
Summary: Updating the author's 1993 edition, this book shows veterinarians and stockpeople how to deal with the welfare of cattle and how to recognise and treat abnormal behaviour.
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 636.2083 PHI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 201550

Previous ed.: published as Cattle behaviour. Tonbridge: Farming Press, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-257) and index.

Introduction to cattle welfare -- 2.The welfare of dairy cows -- 3.The welfare of beef cattle and draft oxen -- 4.The welfare of calves -- 5.The welfare of cattle during transport, marketing and slaughter -- 6.Environmental perception and cognition -- 7.Acquisition of behaviour and the use of selective breeding to improve welfare -- 8.Play behaviour -- 9.Social behaviour -- 10.Nutritional behaviour -- 11.Reproductive behaviour -- 12.Locomotion and movement -- 13.Resting behaviour -- 14.Behavioural adaptation to inadequate environments -- 15.The relationship between cattle and man.

Updating the author's 1993 edition, this book shows veterinarians and stockpeople how to deal with the welfare of cattle and how to recognise and treat abnormal behaviour.

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