Table of Contents

to Animal Welfare and the Sheep.- Environment and the Sheep.- Behaviour and the Welfare of the Sheep.- Sheep Senses, Social Cognition and Capacity for Consciousness.- The Impact of Disease and Disease Prevention on Welfare in Sheep.- Farming Systems for Sheep Production and Their Effect on Welfare.- Nutrition and the Welfare of Sheep.- The Management of Sheep.- The Economics of Sheep Welfare.- Sheep Welfare: A Future Perspective.

Reviews

From the reviews: "This contribution provides … intensive and extensive farming, and nomadic pastoralism, as well as the animal itself, including its history, evolution and ecology. Sheep have long been part of humanity … in The Welfare of Sheep reflects both the complexity and the importance of this relationship between man and animals. A superb and informative read, Dwyer and her colleagues offer students and teachers, researchers and regulators, farmers and citizens, an important and necessary resource, providing the context for whatever aspects they deem worthy of following." (M. W. Fisher, Animal Welfare, Vol. 18 (3), August, 2009)