Animal husbandry

Raise healthy, productive goats without antibiotics, chemicals, or expensive veterinary interventions using natural health management.

The magnitude of the food-waste disposal problem cannot be understated.

Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society.

With Common Sense Natural Beekeeping, learn to keep bees sustainably with limited chemicalor human intervention.

Snow Leopards, Second Edition provides a foundational, comprehensive overview of the biology, ecology and conservation of this iconic species.

This unique reference book describes quantitatively the measured and predicted values of all the physical properties of mammalian tissue.

Alternative Swine Management Systems examines technologically humane substitutions for swine production, focusing specifically on hoop structure systems.

Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition-1979 is a collection of studies that tackles the nutritional concerns of both ruminant and non-ruminant livestock.

Livestock development over the past three decades has been mainly directed towards satisfying the rapidly increasing demand for milk, meat and eggs in the urban centers.

The field of primatology has expanded substantially in the last twenty years, particularly with regard to studies of primates in human-altered landscapes.

The global drive towards sustainability and improved animal health means there is a greater need for development of novel functional ingredients for the feed industry.

There has been rapid global expansion of production and consumption of animal products which is expected to continue to grow.

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.

The explosion of the field of genetics over the last decade, with the new technologies that have stimulated research, suggests that a new sort of reference work is needed to keep pace with such a fast-moving and interdisciplinary field.

Updated and revised, this bestselling textbook continues to provide a broad introduction to the key topics in the welfare of animals both large and small, farm and companion, wild and zoo.

In the past, wildlife living in urban areas were ignored by wildlife professionals and urban planners because cities were perceived as places for people and not for wild animals.

The capacity of humans to destroy their environment is playing out like a Greek tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea.

What is happening in our oceans?

Advances in the Study of Behavior, Volume 49 provides users with the latest insights in this ever-evolving field.

Find out how you can help save the bees in lots of practical ways and discover the incredible science behind honey bees, beekeeping, and bees in the wild - from the carpenter solitary bee to the stingless sugarbag.

Equine Reproductive Physiology Breeding and Stud Management, 5th Edition provides a thorough grounding in equine reproductive anatomy and physiology for equine, animal and veterinary science students.

Protein and Amino Acid Nutrition describes the state of knowledge concerning the nutrition of proteins and amino acids.

This volume presents a representative sample of contributions to the 41st European Marine Biology Symposium held in September 2005 in Cork, Ireland.

The Foraging Behavior of the Honeybee (Apis mellifera, L.

Die Autoren beleuchten in ihrem neuesten Buch alle Facetten des Freizeitreitens und des Pferdesports unter Berücksichtigung sämtlicher tierschutzrechtlicher Rahmenbedingungen in Deutschland und Österreich, um darzustellen, wie man diesen wunderbaren Sport mit dem Lebewesen Pferd betreiben kann, sodass beide Beteiligten Freude an ihrer Zusammenarbeit haben.

Swine Nutrition is a comprehensive text-reference that deals with the various aspects and knowledge in swine nutrition.

The world's oceans cover 70% of the earth's surface and are home to a myriad of amazing and beautiful creatures.

Stimulating and thought-provoking, this important new text looks at the welfare problems and philosophical and ethical issues that are caused by changes made to an animal's telos, behaviour and physiology, both positive and negative, to make them more productive or adapted for human uses.

Raising cattle in the 21st century can be a complicated process.

Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition - 1982 focuses on the compositions of animal feeds.

Before crude oil and the combustion engine, the industrialized world relied on a different kind of power - the power of the horse.

Advances in Sheep Welfare examines the recent advances made in sheep welfare assessment, handling and management, providing state-of-the-art coverage of the welfare needs of one of the world's most widely farmed animals.

Proteomics may be defined as the large-scale study of the proteome, i.

WINNER OF THE 2024 LIVING NOW AWARD IN GREEN LIVING AND FINALIST IN THE GARDEN MEDIA GUILD AWARD FOR THE PETER SEABROOK PRACTICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR.

This book places Australia's efforts in selected areas of animal biotechnology in the context of research developments occurring internationally.

Advances in Animal Genomics provides an outstanding collection of integrated strategies involving traditional and modern - omics (structural, functional, comparative and epigenomics) approaches and genomics-assisted breeding methods which animal biotechnologists can utilize to dissect and decode the molecular and gene regulatory networks involved in the complex quantitative yield and stress tolerance traits in livestock.

Organic animal production has increased rapidly in recent years to keep up with the increasing consumer demand for organic meats.

At the beginning of the 21st century, Antarctica is poised at the edge of a warmer and busier world.

Beef Production focuses on the different aspects or sectors of beef production, elaborating different systems of production and development with reference to both technical and economic efficiency.

Domestic and wild large mammalian herbivores occur on every continent except Antarctica.

Having shown us how to master monsters in Edward's Crochet Imaginarium and capture our friends and family in Edward's Crochet Doll Emporium, Kerry Lord is back with patterns for everyone's favourite pups in her new book Edward's Menagerie: Dogs.

Salmonids have widespread economic and environmental importance.

This book gives an overview of the diverse marine fauna and flora of Japan and includes practical guides for investigating the biology and ecology of marine organisms.

Running a Small Flock of Sheep uses a step-by-step approach and has been written for small-scale sheep farmers and inexperienced people considering a rural life-style change.