Advances in Sheep Welfare

2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-443-14048-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Advances in Sheep Welfare, Second Edition provides a detailed reference on advancements in sheep welfare. The book contains the most current knowledge on breeding practices, animal affective states, management strategies, farming and production practices, and the role of society and consumers in shaping the welfare debate. In addition to updating all chapters from the previous edition, completely new chapters are included on behavioral assessments of sheep welfare, the impact of climate change, and drivers of change for sheep producers. Stakeholders across the wool, dairy, and sheep meat supply chains will also benefit from this resource.

The book brings together a team of international experts to create the definitive resource on sheep welfare. It will serve as a key reference for researchers, instructors, and students at the post-graduate level who are interested in animal agriculture, especially those who study sheep and issues of animal welfare.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferguson, Drewe

Doyle, Rebecca

Lee, Caroline

Fisher, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Tierhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Understanding the natural behavior of sheep
2. Overview of sheep production systems
3. Consumer and societal expectations for sheep products (wool, meat and dairy)
4. Sheep cognition and implications for welfare
5. New physiological measures of the biological costs to responding to challenges
6. Novel behavioral measures of sheep welfare
Current and future solutions to welfare challenges
7. Genetic solutions

8. Reproductive management (including impacts of prenatal stress on offspring development)

9. Nutritional management

10. Predation control
11. Managing disease risks

12. Husbandry procedures
13. Transport and pre-slaughter management

14. Advanced livestock management solutions (application)
15. Adapting to climate change
16. Drivers to practice change on-farm
17. Optimized welfare for sheep in research and teaching
18. Sheep welfare - beyond 2030

Über Autor(innen)

Lee, Caroline
Caroline Lee leads the animal behavior and welfare team at CSIRO, Australia. Her research interests include developing novel methods to assess affective states, assessing cognition and learning and improving welfare assessment of farm animals.

Fisher, Andrew
Andrew Fisher is Chair of Cattle and Sheep Production Medicine and Director of the Animal Welfare Science Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has significant experience in animal welfare research, with a particular focus on production animal management, transport and pain management. He is also actively involved in the translation of animal welfare research into public and organizational policy.

Doyle, Rebecca
Rebecca Doyle studies animal welfare from fundamental cognition to applied animal welfare research. She is a Senior Lecturer and the Deputy Director of the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Ferguson, Drewe
Drewe Ferguson leads the Livestock Systems Program within CSIRO Agriculture and Food. He is recognized for his research in advancing livestock welfare through improvements in livestock resilience and management and husbandry practices.