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Chapter 12: Practical strategies to assess (and improve) welfare

Chapter 3: Welfare Assessment

Chapter 7: Welfare assessment

Chapter 2: Animal welfare

Chapter 2: The importance of measurement to improve the welfare of livestock, poultry, and fish
Chapter 4: Implementing effective animal-based measurements for assessing animal welfare on farms and slaughter plants
Chapter 9: Improving livestock, poultry, and fish welfare in slaughter plants with auditing programs and animal-based measures

Chapter 5: Welfare assessment

Chapter 11: How do the different measures relate to each other?
Chapter 12: Selecting and combining criteria of animal welfare

A risk assessment approach to animal welfare. Pg 223-234
A practicable approach to assessing risks for animal welfare. Pg 239-271
Animal welfare indicators and their use in society. Pg 371-386
The scientific basis of animal welfare indicators. Pg 391-410
Monitoring animal welfare. Pg 443-457

Chapter 6: Science in the real world-benefits for researchers and farmers

Chapter 8: Health and disease

Chapter 24: Welfare and behaviour in relation to disease

Chapter 5: The physiology of suffering

Chapter 10: Physiology

Chapter 7: Welfare assessment

Chapter 7: Physiological correlates of welfare

Chapter 7: Frustration and boredom in impoverished environments
Chapter 9: Behaviour
Chapter 11: Preference and motivation research

Chapter 2: Behaviour and welfare concepts
Chapter 3: Describing, recording and measuring behavior
Chapter 24: Welfare and behaviour in relation to disease
Chapter 25: Abnormal behaviour 1: Stereotypies
Chapter 26: Abnormal behaviour 2: Self-directed and environment-directed
Chapter 27: Abnormal behaviour 3: Addressed to another individual
Chapter 28: Abnormal behaviour 4: Failure of function
Chapter 29: Abnormal behaviour 5: Anomalous reactivity

Chapter 6: The mental health and well-being benefits of personal control in animals
Chapter 23: Assessing affective states in animals

Chapter 7: Preference studies and welfare

Chapter 4: What animals want
Chapter 5: Behavioural correlates of welfare
Chapter 6: Natural behaviour

Chapter 9: Abnormal behaviour, stress and welfare

Chapter 14: Social conditions

Chapter 15: General social behaviour

Chapter 2: Aggression and social structure

Chapter 8: The mental health and well-being benefits of social contact and social support in animals

Chapter 13: Social organization

Chapter 6: Social and reproductive behaviour

Chapter 15: Human contact

Chapter 10: Body care
Chapter 16: Human-domestic animal interactions
Chapter 22: Handling, transport, and humane control of domestic animals

Chapter 7: Learning

Chapter 7: The importance of good stockmanship and its benefits to animals

Chapter 5: Learning
Chapter 15: Human-animal interactions

Chapter 7: Human-animal interactions and animal welfare

Chapter 2: Tales about tails

Chapter 22: Handling, transport, and humane control of domestic animals

Chapter 6: Painful husbandry procedures in livestock and poultry.
Chapter 11: Welfare during transport of livestock and poultry

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Chapter 11-74: Elective procedures in dairy cattle

Chapter 13: Physical conditions

Chapter 10: Alone or together

Animal welfare and housing. pg 79-101

Chapter 6: Home is where the heart is.

Chapter 3: Environmental challenge and animal agency

Chapter 11: Locomotion and space occupied