Animal husbandry

Blueprints for Tropical Dairy Farming provides insight into the logistics, infrastructure and management required for the development of small and large dairy farms in tropical developing countries.

Dairy science includes the study of milk and milk-derived food products, examining the biological, chemical, physical, and microbiological aspects of milk itself, as well as the technological (processing) aspects of the transformation of milk into its various consumer products, including beverages, fermented products, concentrated and dried products, butter and ice cream.

This volume on genetics, genomics, and informatics, will cover new technologies in forward and reverse genetics, transgenesis, the zebrafish genome and mapping technologies, informatics and comparative genomics, and Infrastructure.

The aim of this book is to systematize and discuss population genetic studies of freshwater fish in a region that harbors the greatest diversity of species among all inland water ecosystems.

The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on the effect of ecotourism on Indonesia's primates.

This indispensable beekeeping referencepacked with helpful diagrams, color photos, and easy-to-follow yet thorough instructiongently guides you through setting up and caring for your first colonies.

This book provides complete and up-to-date information on sika deer biology and its management, focusing on their life history with an integrated approach of population dynamics, morphology, genetics, and evolution.

Forages should be the basis of all diets in horse feeding.

With the introduction of a unified syllabus by the Veterinary Council of India, all students of the Bachelor of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (B.

"e;Integrates history, technology, sociology, economics, and politics with this remarkable insect serving as the unifying concept"e; (Buffalo News).

A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding.

The American feed industry manufactures tons of dietary supplements and additives each year for inclusion in the diets of food-producing animals.

Livestock biodiversity is integral to our culture, history, environment, economy and, most importantly, our future.

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Americans have never been more concerned about their food's purity.

This book explores the knowledge, work and life of Pacific coastal populations from the Pacific Northwest to Panama.

Freshwater eels are almost infinitely improbable creatures.

The waters of the Indo-Pacific were at the centre of the global expansion of marine capture fisheries in the twentieth century, yet surprisingly little has been written about this subject from a historical perspective.

Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior.

A comprehensive reference for the poultry industry Volume 2 describes poultry processing from raw meat to final retail products With an unparalleled level of coverage, the Handbook of Poultry Science and Technology provides an up-to-date and comprehensive reference on poultry processing.

This Brief discusses potential alternative sources for feeds in aquaculture fish diet, and explains that the future of aquaculture's development is dependent on the costs of fishmeal and fish oil.

Introduction to Laboratory Animal Science and Technology discusses the principles involved in the healthy maintenance of animals in the laboratory or animal house.

This edition includes a chapter on water quality plus the latest findings in yabby farming.

The diploma courses in animal husbandry have been introduced in almost all agriculture and veterinary universities of India including Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) institutions.

Chickens are by far the world's most widely farmed animal, kept for both meat and egg production.

This book shows how and why quality assurance programmes should be implemented in laboratory rodent facilities to monitor animal health and genetic status.

An Introduction to Feeding Farm Livestock, Second Edition is a two-part book that focuses on nutrition and rationing of farm livestock.

Winner of the 2017 Virginia Marie Folkins Award, Association of King County Historical Organizations (AKCHO)Winner of the 2017 Hal K.

At any given time there are around one billion pigs in the world; that's one for every seven of us.

Reproductive Biology of the Crocodylia is based on over 40 years of research on global crocodiles, alligators and caimans.

How do you define the quality of life of a farmed animal?

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in sustainable dairy production, helping the industry to develop more sustainable dairy products, through new technologies, implementing life cycle analysis, and upgrading and optimization of their current production lines.

Sturkie's Avian Physiology, Seventh Edition is the classic comprehensive single volume on the physiology of domestic as well as wild birds.

Management Strategies for Sustainable Cattle Production in Southern Pastures is a practical resource for scientists, students, and stakeholders who want to understand the relationships between soil-plant interactions and pasture management strategies, and the resultant performance of cow-calf and stocker cattle.

This primate field guide can be used to refer to information on each species, or it can be used to find which species exist on each island, as shown at the back of the book.

This book presents the latest scientific views on resource use conflicts in the Arctic seas.

This book provides comprehensive insights into the field of duck production and management.

With the substantial advances in the miniaturization of electronic components, wildlife biologists now routinely monitor the movements of free-ranging animals with radio-tracking devices.

Domesticated small animals, from the cow to the rabbit, have been enjoyed by human owners around the world since the dawn of civilization, nearly 12,000 years ago.

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.

Feed Efficiency in the Beef Industry provides a thorough and concise overview of feed efficiency in beef cattle.

Your hands-on guide to modern chicken-raising methods Thinking about raising chickens?

Behavior of Nonhuman Primates: Modern Research Trends, Volume 5 is a collection of papers on research trends in the study of the various aspects of primate behavior.