Industralized cattle production is presently the subject of great changes, which in some respects have great detrimental impact on the animals. Modern intensive production systems often disregard the animals’ behavioural needs, causing unnecessary stress and disease. In the light of Swedish cattle husbandry standards, housing, management, feeding, transport and slaughter practices, and animal w...

Citation: Daigle CL (2016) In Search of the Urban Cowboy: The Need to Incorporate Animal Husbandry into the United States Higher Education Curriculum and Its Implications for Production Animal Welfare. Front. Vet. Sci. 3:84. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2016.00084 in Search of the Urban Cowboy: The need to incorporate Animal Husbandry into the United States Higher Education Curriculum and its implication...

With the number of threatened species increasing globally, conservation breeding is vitally important now more than ever. However, no previous peer-reviewed study has attempted to determine how the varying conditions across zoos have influenced breeding by an extinct-in-the-wild species. We therefore use questionnaires and studbook data to evaluate the influence of husbandry practices and enclo...

In this article, it has been conducted a scientific and theoretical analysis of the legislation, which introduces green bonds as tool for financing organic production, also identified ways to improve it. It determined that new type valuable securities – can become one tools support development agricultural production. is proved singling out environmental projects direction, involve use funds ra...