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Nutrition and the Welfare of Farm Animals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
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Nutrition and the Welfare of Farm Animals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Animal Welfare, 16
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This book explores the importance of good nutrition in ensuring an
adequate standard of welfare for farm animals. It is often not
realized that farm animals can suffer when they are fed unsuitable
diets, which may be because these diets are more economic or the
farmer does not know how to rectify poor nutrition. This book
reveals how to recognize and deal with feeding problems in farm
animals, when the animal's behaviour is indicating a deficiency,
through oral stereotypies for example. Feeding livestock in
emergency situations can present special challenges, and the
availability of clean and potable water, one of the essential
components of life, can also be an unrecognized problem for many
farm animals. Feeding farm animals effectively is rarely recognized
for the major welfare issue that it is. We may assume that animals
in intensive husbandry conditions have adequate feed, yet it is
often too concentrated and designed primarily to immediately
maximize production from the animals, in the form of growth, milk
yield or reproduction. In extensive rangeland conditions adequate
feed supply also cannot be assured, potentially leading to
undernutrition with serious consequences for the health and even
survival of livestock. This book will provide a much-needed review
of the relationships between nutrition and the welfare of farm
animals.
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