The camel (Camelus dromedarius) / Standing Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management
- Bib ID:
- 289711
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand. Standing Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management
- Description:
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- Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO, 1997
- v, 17 p. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0643062823
- Series:
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- Model code of practice for the welfare of animals.
- SCARM report ; no. 61.
- Summary:
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This code should be read in conjunction with other codes of practice endorsed by the Agriculture and Resources Management Council of Australia and New Zealand. The code is intended as a guide for all people responsible for the welfare and husbandry of camels, with the aim of achieving humane husbandry throughout all types of camel enterprises. Assistance and specific advice on management and disease control in camels should be obtained from experienced advisers. Camels are used in situations which vary from camels trained for personal pleasure and tourist enterprises, to controlled extensive grazing and harvesting of uncontrolled or feral stock. General guidelines for harvesting operations involving feral camels are contained in the SCARM Australian model code of practice for the destruction or capture, handling and marketing or feral livestock animals. Owners, managers and handlers have a responsibility to care for the welfare of camels under their control, whether they are framed or harvested. The basic behavioural, anatomical and physiological needs of camels are considered in this code. The basic requirements for welfare of camels are: water food and air to maintain good health; social contact with other camels, with sufficient individual space to stand, walk freely, lie down, escape agressors, stretch and groom; protection form predation ; protection from disease; protection form the adverse effects of climate extremes or unseasonal changes in weather conditions; provision of reasonable precautions (eg. fire breaks) against the effects of natural disaster; protection from unnecessary, unreasonable or unjustifiable pain, suffering and injury; provision of a supply of common salt.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Water
- 3. Food
- 4. Predation
- 5. Protection from climatic extremes
- 6. Mustering
- 6.1. General
- 6.2. Trapping
- 6.3. Mustering by horses
- 6.4. Mustering by helicopter and vehicles into portable yards
- 6.5. Capture of individuals by vehicles or motorbike
- 7. Management practices
- 7.1. Handling: general
- 7.2. Yard design
- 7.3. Testing feral camels
- 7.4. Testing handled camels
- 7.5. Castration
- 7.6. Nose pegging
- 7.7. Identification
- 7.8. Use of dogs, goads or electric jiggers
- 8. Reproduction
- 8.1. Females
- 8.2. Males
- 8.3. Artificial rearing of calves
- 8.4. Calving and weaning practices
- 8.5. Growth rates
- 9. Health
- 10. Camel transport
- 10.2. General
- 10.2. Road transport
- 10.3. Stocking densities during transport
- 10.4. Rail transport
- 10.5. Air transport
- 10.6. Sea transport
- 11. Emergency destruction of camels.
- Notes:
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- "...endorsed by the Agriculture and Resource Management Council of Australia and New Zealand (ARMCANZ) as a national code at its 9th meeting in February 1997." --Pref.
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- Subject:
- Terms of Use:
- Commonwealth of Australia and each of its States and Territories 1997.
- Copyright:
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- Until 2067 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1997
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