Human-livestock interactions the stockperson and the productivity and welfare of intensively-farmed animals /

Main Author: Hemsworth, Paul H.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Coleman, Grahame J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, U.K. ; Cambridge, Mass. : CABI, 2011.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10446302
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the stockperson as a professional: skills, knowledge and status
  • Farm animal welfare: assessment, issues and implications
  • Human-animal interactions and animal productivity and welfare
  • Attitudes of stockpeople
  • Stockperson behaviour and animal behaviour
  • A model of stockperson-animal interactions and their implications for livestock
  • Changing stockperson attitudes and behaviour
  • Conclusion : current and future opportunities to improve human-animal interactions in livestock production.