Cattle Behavior
and Welfare

Second Edition
by Clive Phillips

Cattle Behavior and Welfare describes the principle behavior patterns in cattle, their ontogeny and their purpose, and discusses the welfare issues in cattle production.

The benefit of a knowledge of cattle behavior means veterinarians and stockpeople can recognize abnormal behavior signs for disease diagnosis and indication of an inadequate environment.

Features:

• Gives comprehensive scientific explanation of the behaviors many veterinarians and stockpeople will be familiar with but never understood
• One of the only books dedicated to the field of behavior and welfare of cattle
• Now includes welfare, an increasingly important subject for stockpeople and vets alike
• Draws together a wide range of research findings from all over the world and presents them concisely and readably

Contents

1. 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

Index

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