Nutrition and the Welfare of Farm Animals

Foreword (Phillips).- Introduction on welfare and nutrition (Phillips).- Hunger associated with restricted feeding systems (Tolkamp & D'Eath).- Starvation of ruminant livestock (Hogan & Phillips).- The use of feeding behaviour in the assessment of animal welfare (Nielsen, de Jong & DeVries).- Nutrition affects immune function and inflammatory responses, with implications for health and welfare (Bertoni, Trevisi, Jos, Luigi & Spiridoula).- Assessing Farm Animal Welfare from a Nutritional Perspective (Bach, von Keyserlingk, Widowski & Haley).- Integrating nutrition and animal welfare in extensive systems (Villalba, Manteca, Vercoe, Maloney & Blache).- Feeding cattle for improved productivity, health, and welfare in modern farming enterprises (Beever & Bach).- Water and the welfare of farm animals (von Keyserlingk, Nielsen, Patience & Philips).- Providing feed to livestock during emergencies (Roeder).- Animal welfare, nutrition and economics: past, present and future (Phillips & Makkar).

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• Ciência agrícola
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