Human-livestock interactions : the stockperson and the productivity and welfare of intensively farmed animals /
Hemsworth, Paul H.
Coleman, Grahame J.
Wallingford ; Cambridge, MA : CABI,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Animal industry
Livestock
Livestock
Animal welfare.