Transport of Animals Intended for Breeding, Production and Slaughter :
[Book]
a Seminar in the CEC Programme of Coordination of Research on Animal Welfare, organised by R. Moss, and held in Brussels, 7-8 July, 1981
edited by R. Moss.
Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1982
(258 pages)
Current topics in veterinary medicine and animal science, 18.
Session I: Introduction --;Council of Europe Convention on Transport of Livestock, EC Council Directive on Protection of Animals during International Transport --;The Office of International Epizootics (OIE) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) --;Session II: Physiological Changes Induced in Animals at Loading, during and after Transport and Their Effects: Including Behavioural Changes --;Handling of Slaughter Pigs Prior to Loading and during Loading on a Lorry --;Transport of Broilers --;Injuries during Catching and Transportation of Broilers --;Various Transport Conditions and Their Influence on Physiological Reactions --;Physiology of the Transport of Cattle --;Physiological Response of Pigs to Treadmill Exercise Used as a Standardised Stress --;Behaviour of Cattle during Transport and Penning Before Slaughter --;Session III: Significance of These Changes and Effects in Relation to Health and Well-Being --;Losses Caused by Transport of Slaughter Pigs in the Netherlands --;Recent Results from Investigations of Transportation of Pigs for Slaughter --;Physiological Reaction of Slaughter Animals during Transport --;Session IV: Means of Transport, with Particular Reference to Their Construction --;Transport of Day Old Chicks by Air --;Bulk Transportation of Farm Animals by Air and Vehicular Ferries --;Transportation of Sheep by Ship from Australia to the Middle East --;Bulk Transport of Livestock by Sea with Particular Reference to Instruction, Procedure and Problems --;Session V: Present Research Being Undertaken and Consideration of What Further Studies, If Any, would be Desirable --;Transport of Animals Intended for Breeding Production and Slaughter --;Research on Transport Stress at Arc Bristol --;Research on Farm Animal Transport in France: A Survey --;Final Discussion --;List of Participants.
The transport of farm livestock was the subject of the seminar held from 7 - 8 July 1981 at the Commission of the European Communities (CECl, Directorate General for Agriculture, Brussels as part of the work of the Division Coordinating Agricultural Research.