Actions for Farm animals and the environment
Farm animals and the environment / edited by Clive Phillips and David Piggins
- Published
- Wallingford : C.A.B. International, [1992]
- Copyright Date
- ©1992
- Physical Description
- xii, 430 pages ; 25 cm
- Additional Creators
- Phillips, Clive J. C. and Piggins, David
- Contents
- Environmental factors influencing the production and welfare of farm animals -- Cold stress / J. Le Dividich ... [et al.] -- Heat stress / A. Alnaimy ... [et al.] -- Photoperiod / C.J.C. Phillips -- Space requirements of housed livestock / M.R. Baxter -- Ventilation / C.M. Wathes -- Walking and lying surfaces in livestock houses / C. Nilsson -- Human factors / M.F. Seabrook and N.C. Bartle -- Perception of the environment by farm animals -- Visual perception / D. Piggins -- Auditory perception / H.E. Heffner and R.S. Heffner -- Olfaction and taste / G.C. Perry -- Tactile and pain perception / A. Livingston, S. Ley and A. Waterman -- Cognition / K.M. Kendrick -- Animal responses to the environment -- Behaviour / J.F. Hurnik -- Animal welfare: its scientific measurement and current relevance to animal husbandry in Europe / D.M. Broom -- Stress: a general overview / R. Ewbank -- Environment-dependent disease / J.Y. Blom -- Genotype-environment interaction / J.B. Owen -- Effects of early environment on behaviour / P. Le Neindre ... [et al.]. and (cont) Effects of farm animals on the human environments -- Liquid wastes from farm animal enterprises / J.R. Archer and R.J. Nicholson -- Gaseous pollutants produced by farm animal enterprises / S. Tamminga -- Disease transfer / R.W. Lacey -- Role in landscape and wildlife conservation / M.B. Alcock.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0851987885
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