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Book Synopsis Animal Health & Welfare on Australian Dairy Farms by : Dairy Australia
Download or read book Animal Health & Welfare on Australian Dairy Farms written by Dairy Australia and published by . This book was released on 2023-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dairy Australia Animal Husbandry and Genetics Survey (AHGS) tracks dairy farmer attitudes, behaviours and practices relating to animal health, welfare, fertility, antimicrobial use, and herd genetics. The survey has been conducted regularly since 2005. The results assist Dairy Australia and the broader industry to prioritise research, development, and extension (RD&E) as well as policy, identify targets for improving on-farm performance and ensure practices are aligned with community expectations. In July 2022, 400 dairy farmers from all dairying regions of Australia were interviewed at random via Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI). Quotas were set in each dairy region to ensure a statistically robust sample and data weighted to represent the true geographic spread of dairy farmers (see Appendix 1 for full details of survey methodology). The 2022 AHGS results highlight improvements across a variety of animal husbandry practices, including disbudding and pain relief provision, supplying first milking colostrum, and ensuring calves are transported at an appropriate age. Measures to keep cows cool in hot weather and lameness prevention strategies are almost universal on dairy farms. The survey suggests that since 2019, a greater number of calves are being raised for beef as an alternative to early life slaughter. Whilst knowledge of optimal breeding and feeding strategies for dairy beef production appears widespread, there is an opportunity to support dairy farmer knowledge of beef markets as well as carcase quality and performance. Despite positive results overall, there is a small segment of farms that are not ensuring calves are fed within 6 hours of being transported, and blunt force trauma continues to be used as a method of euthanasia on some farms, including in calves older than 24 hours.
Book Synopsis Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Cattle by :
Download or read book Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Cattle written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Applying HACCP-based Quality Risk Management on dairy farms by : J.P.T.M. Noordhuizen
Download or read book Applying HACCP-based Quality Risk Management on dairy farms written by J.P.T.M. Noordhuizen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quality is a keyword in animal production. Next to product quality, process quality has also become relevant for dairy farmers. Issues like food safety, public health, animal health and welfare are determined by the conditions of the production process. To address these, he EU has issued the General Food Law (178-2002) and the Hygiene directives (EC 852/853/854-2004) dealing with the forenamed domains with the aim to protect consumers. The suggestion was also made by the EU that farmers apply a HACCP-like plan to meet these new quality demands. Key issues are structure, organisation, planning, formalisation and demonstrability, which can also be found in the HACCP concept. This book addresses Quality Risk Management through applying the HACCP-like concept. First, the assessment of strong and weak points on a dairy farm are dealt with, which is useful for farm inspection and herd health programmes. Then, the 12-steps for developing a HACCP plan are followed through the various chapters. Many examples and elaborations are given. An example farm, FX, is introduced to show how the different elements may look in reality. At the end of the book characteristics of entrepreneur-like dairy farmers are given and compared to strong and weak points of cattle practitioners. Practitioners may conclude how to better serve this type of farmer. Communication plays a paramount role. Finally, several general issues are addressed: economics, integrating classical herd health with quality risk management programmes. The aim of this book is to give practical guidelines and examples for dairy farmers, cattle practitioners and extension people, who desire to jointly develop and implement a HACCP-based quality risk management programme. 'This book is well written with many practical flow charts and ""Good Practice"" advice. I would recommend it to any veterinarian involved in producing risk management programs or ""Standard Operating Procedure"" type documents for dairy farms. The chapters on good communication and marketing would be useful for most veterinarians.' David S. Beggs, book review editor 'The Australian Cattle Veterinarian' Volume 50, p. 34-35, March '09"
Download or read book Cow Talk written by Rebecca Doyle and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this manual is to improve the welfare of dairy cattle in tropical developing countries, and by doing so, optimise cow and herd performance. It gives the stockmen and farmers directly concerned with the cattle a better understanding of animal behaviour and the ways cattle communicate their comfort or distress. The book discusses normal cattle behaviour and shows how domestication and breeding can affect behaviour to achieve high levels of production of milk, live weight gain and fertility. Animal welfare is important for producers because it can affect the health, production and contentment of cows. Animal welfare practices which adversely affect cow and herd performance on tropical small holder dairy farms are identified. Advice is then given to change the animal's environment or modify a handler's technique to ensure cattle have the degree of comfort needed to achieve more profitable and sustainable systems of livestock farming. Cow Talk will be a beneficial resource for farmers who want to improve animal welfare, farm advisers who can assist farmers to improve their welfare practices, educators who develop training programs for farmers and dairy advisers, and other stakeholders in tropical dairy production such as local agribusiness, policy makers and research scientists.
Book Synopsis Feedpads for Grazing Dairy Cows by : John Moran
Download or read book Feedpads for Grazing Dairy Cows written by John Moran and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first detailed and comprehensive guide to the use of feedpads in the dairy industry, from planning and construction to day-to-day management, written especially for farmers. With ongoing droughts and access to water driving up the cost of conserved forages and feeding concentrates, feedpads offer flexible and efficient systems to maximise returns on feeding expensive supplements to grazing dairy cows, and form part of the risk management strategy for dairy farms. Feedpads for Grazing Dairy Cows covers all the aspects of animal husbandry involved in running a successful system and addresses key issues such as formulating rations to balance grazed pasture, management of farm labour and effluent management. The key principles of dairy nutrition are explained along with the concept of partial mixed rations and the range of potential ingredients. The authors also cover the physical features of feedpad design and construction and provide a checklist for planning a feedpad. They discuss important issues such as cow welfare, animal health and the management of effluent, including cleaning the pad, storing and recycling these solids and liquids on farm while minimising feedpad odours, flies and vermin. This book demonstrates a wide range of long-term economic benefits and will play an important role in helping dairy farmers achieve higher farm profitability.
Book Synopsis The Economics of Animal Health and Production by : Jonathan Rushton
Download or read book The Economics of Animal Health and Production written by Jonathan Rushton and published by CABI. This book was released on 2009 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. Illustrated with review studies on animal health economics, this book presents information on the most important economic tools applied to livestock, covering both theory and practical applications. Topics covered include gross margin analysis, partial budgeting, investment and financial appraisal and cost-benefit analysis. There are also sections on decision tree analysis, optimisation methods, value chain analysis, new institutional economics, DALYs and a range of policy analysis tools. International experts contribute on important theoretical and practical aspects of animal health and production economics, with global themes on livestock and poverty.
Book Synopsis Nutrition and the Welfare of Farm Animals by : Clive J. C. Phillips
Download or read book Nutrition and the Welfare of Farm Animals written by Clive J. C. Phillips and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Cattle Welfare in Dairy and Beef Systems by : Marie Haskell
Download or read book Cattle Welfare in Dairy and Beef Systems written by Marie Haskell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the welfare of cattle. It starts with a consideration of animal welfare science and its application to the management of cattle and moves through to discussions of the challenges and opportunities for providing good welfare for cattle in farming and husbandry systems across the globe. The first section comprises three chapters that discuss the social, behavioural and physiological methods that can be used to assess welfare in cattle. The second section considers the welfare challenges of beef and dairy cattle in extensive and intensive systems. The third section details welfare challenges such as at slaughter, during handling and in the growing period and details solutions such as the use of sensors and application of animal breeding techniques. The final section addresses welfare challenges and solutions in achieving sustainability, in smallholder farms in Africa and new entrant dairying in Asia and cow shelters in India. This work makes a valuable contribution to the field of animal welfare and modern livestock farming. It is a must-read for researchers and students, veterinarians as well as industry personnel and informed farmers and producers.
Book Synopsis Perspectives in Dealing with Surplus Male Farm Animals by : Nicole Kemper
Download or read book Perspectives in Dealing with Surplus Male Farm Animals written by Nicole Kemper and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Dairy Farm Management: Securing Animal Health, Well-being and Productivity by : Richard Van Vleck Pereira
Download or read book Dairy Farm Management: Securing Animal Health, Well-being and Productivity written by Richard Van Vleck Pereira and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beef Cattle Production and Trade by : David Cottle
Download or read book Beef Cattle Production and Trade written by David Cottle and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers all aspects of the beef industry from paddock to plate.
Book Synopsis Animal Welfare Reference Document for Dairy Production by : M. K. Edge
Download or read book Animal Welfare Reference Document for Dairy Production written by M. K. Edge and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Information Resources for the Care and Welfare of Dairy Cattle by : Cynthia Petrie Smith
Download or read book Information Resources for the Care and Welfare of Dairy Cattle written by Cynthia Petrie Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Welfare of Cattle by : Jeffrey Rushen
Download or read book The Welfare of Cattle written by Jeffrey Rushen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-12-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers all aspects of research into the welfare of dairy, veal and beef cattle, covering behavior, nutrition and feeding, housing and management, stockmanship, and stress physiology, as well as transport and slaughter. It also offers a detailed and critical analysis of the main indicators of animal welfare and covers the main threats to animal welfare in modern cattle production systems.
Book Synopsis The Regulation of Animal Health and Welfare by : John McEldowney
Download or read book The Regulation of Animal Health and Welfare written by John McEldowney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Regulation of Animal Health and Welfare draws on the research of scientists, lawyers, economists and political scientists to address the current and future regulatory problems posed by the issues of animal health and disease. Recent events such as the outbreak of mad cow disease, epidemics of foot and mouth disease, concerns about bluetongue in sheep, and the entry into the food chain of the offspring of cloned cattle, have heightened awareness of the issues of regulation in animal disease and welfare. This book critically appraises the existing regulatory institutions and guiding principles of how best to maintain animal health in the context of social change and a developing global economy. Addressing considerations of sound science, the role of risk management, and the allocation of responsibilities, it also takes up the theoretical and practical challenges which here – and elsewhere – attend the co-operation of scientists, social scientists, lawyers and policy makers. Indeed, the collaboration of scientists and social scientists in determined and regulatory contexts such as that of animal disease is an issue of ever-increasing importance. This book will be of considerable value to those with interests in this issue, as well as those concerned with the law and policy relating to animal health and welfare.
Book Synopsis Meatonomics by : David Robinson Simon
Download or read book Meatonomics written by David Robinson Simon and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “provocative and persuasive work,” the health advocate reveals the dirty economics of meat—an industry that’s eating into your wallet (Publishers Weekly). Few Americans are aware of the economic system that supports our country’s supply of animal foods. Yet these forces affect us in a number of ways—none of them good. Though we only pay a few dollars per pound of meat at the grocery store, we pay far more in tax-fueled government subsidies—$38 billion more, to be exact. And subsidies are just one layer of meat’s hidden cost. But in Meatonomics, lawyer and sustainability advocate David Robinson Simon offers a path toward lasting solutions. Animal food producers maintain market dominance with artificially low prices, misleading PR, and an outsized influence over legislation. But counteracting these manipulations is easy—with the economic sanity of plant-based foods. In Meatonomics, Simon demonstrates: How government-funded marketing influences what we think of as healthy eating How much of our money is spent to prop up the meat industry How we can change our habits and our country for the better “Spectacularly important.” —John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution “[A] well-researched, passionately written book.” —Publishers Weekly
Book Synopsis Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Cattle by : Animal Health Australia
Download or read book Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines for Cattle written by Animal Health Australia and published by . This book was released on 2013-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
