Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals

NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines

Defining consensus: A systematic review recommends methodologic criteria for reporting of Delphi studies

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The link between childhood trauma and depression: insights from HPA axis studies in humans.

VERY few veterinary surgeons have thought fit to write a book on diseases of poultry. Mr. Ernest Gray has done justice to the subject and is to be congratulated on his effort. A book of this size, written by one with specialized knowledge, will add to the value of any library or private bookshelf. Diseases of Poultry Their Aetiology, Diagnosis, Treatment and Control; with a Section on the Normal Anatomy and Physiology of the Fowl. By Ernest Gray. (Lockwood's Agricultural and Horticultural Handbooks.) Pp. x + 198 + 16 plates. (London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, Ltd., 1940.) 9s. 6d. net.

Diseases of Poultry

Preface. Approaching questions of stress and welfare. Systems regulating body and brain. Limits to adaptation. Stress and strain, welfare and suffering. Assessing welfare: short-term responses. Assessing welfare: long-term responses. Preference studies and welfare. Ethical problems concerning welfare. Solutions and conclusions. Glossary. References. Index.

Stress and animal welfare

The term “welfare” refers to the state of an individual in relation to its environment, and this can be measured. Both failure to cope with the environment and difficulty in coping are indicators of poor welfare. Suffering and poor welfare often occur together, but welfare can be poor without suffering and welfare should not be defined solely in terms of subjective experiences. The situations that result in poor welfare are reviewed in this study with special reference to those in which an hdividual lacks control over interactions with its environment. The indicators of poor welfare include the following: reduced life expectancy, impaired growth, impaired reproduction, body damage, disease, immunosup pression, adrenal activity, behavior anomalies, and self-narcotization. The uses of measures of responsiveness, stereotypies, and animal preferences in welfare assessment are discussed. The need to make direct measurement of poor welfare as well as to use sophisticated studies of animal preferences is emphasized.

Animal welfare: concepts and measurement.

Indicators of poor welfare.

Part 1 Foundations and methods in behaviour: behaviour and evolution appraisal of behaviour in farm animals inherent and acquired behaviour neuroethology substrates of emotiveness. Part 2 Homeostatic and social behaviour: homeostasis and maintenance reactivity ingestion body care movement exploration spatial behaviour rest and sleep general social behaviour association social interaction. Part 3 Reproductive behaviour: reproductive facilitation female sexual behaviour copulation feotal behaviour parturient behaviour maternal behaviour. Part 4 Developmental behaviour: neonatal behaviour growth behaviour play and function. Part 5 Anomalous and abnormal behaviour: general and somatic anomalies reactive anomalies oral anomalies anomalous ingestive behaviour anomalies in reproductive behaviour behaviour and illness. Part 6 Behaviour and welfare: the basis of rational animal welfare stress alleviation humane control of livestock behavioural needs and environmental requirements.

Donald M. Broom

Papers

Stress and animal welfare

Animal welfare: concepts and measurement.

Indicators of poor welfare.

Farm Animal Behaviour and Welfare

Farm animal behaviour and welfare