This practical research text provides an invaluable resource for all animal and veterinary scientists designing, analysing and interpreting results from nutrition and feed experiments in pigs and poultry.
This practical research text provides an invaluable resource for all animal and veterinary scientists designing, analysing and interpreting results from nutrition and feed experiments in pigs and poultry.
Building on the successful structure of the first edition, the second edition of Reproductive Technologies in Farm Animals has been totally updated and revised to provide an up to date account of the key techniques employed in manipulating reproduction in farm animals, including beef and dairy cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, buffaloes, camelids, horses and poultry.
first published in 1901, this volume contains a detailed guide to forming and managing a pure-bred flock of sheep, with chapters on selection, mating, different breeds, rearing, and much more.
This early work is a fascinating read for any goat enthusiast or historian of the breed, but also contains much information that is still useful and practical for the amateur or professional goat farmer today.
This vintage book contains a collection of articles pertaining to the production of pork, with information on curing, cuts, slaughtering, and many other aspects.
"e;Starting a Pig Farm"e; is a fantastic collection of vintage articles on the subject of keeping pigs, dealing with every aspect from buying and housing to marketing and beyond.
This volume contains a classic handbook on keeping pigs, with chapters on selection and breeding, housing, edit, common ailments and problems, exercise, and much more.
"e;Principles of Practical Pig Breeding and Feeding"e; is a classic guide to pig farming that presents the reader with all the fundamental information they would need to know about keeping and breeding pigs for pleasure or profit.
This book contains a classic guide to raising angora goats, with information on selection, breeding, feeding, utilisation of products, ailments, and many other related aspects.
This volume contains a collection of articles on pig-keeping, with information on farrowing, parturition, feeding, breeding, taking care of female pigs, and much more besides.
This impressive volume contains a large and comprehensive collection of articles on pig farming, with information on diet, ailments, housing, preparation, marketing, and many other aspects of pig breeding.
First published in 1943, "e;The Farming Ladder"e; aims to explain how the reader may start and maintain a successful and profitable farm in the easiest way possible, without requiring a great deal of special knowledge or skills.
"e;Keeping Poultry And Rabbits On Scraps"e; is an extensively illustrated guide to keeping rabbits and chickens, with a special focus on doing so as cheaply as possible.
This book contains a classic guide to pig farming that presents the reader with all the fundamental information they would need to know abut keeping and breeding pigs for pleasure or profit.
Originally published in Washington 1924, and republished in a revised and up-dated edition in the same year, this extremely scarce early work on the Collie is both expensive and hard to find in any edition.
Contained within this book is a classic guide to keeping pigs for profit or pleasure, exploring subjects including care and health, general management, selection, breeding, and much more.
This book contains a classic guide to breeding and raising goats on a farm, with information on rearing, feeding, common problems and ailments, selection, and many other related aspects.
"e;Highland Ponies"e; is a detailed guide to the different varieties of ponies found in the Highlands of Scotland, along with interesting anecdotes and observations by the author.
Originally published in the early 1900s, this extremely scarce work on the "e;Sporting"e; Bull Terrier or Pit Bull Terrier is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition.
Based on abundant original research linking science, agriculture, business and the state, Ontario's Cattle Kingdom explores the significance of beef cattle and livestock farming in Ontario during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
In Masterminding Nature, Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s.
In Masterminding Nature, Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s.
Since the first edition was published in 1984 Horse and Stable Management has become the recognised source of reliable information on all aspects of the practical management of horses and ponies.
