Animal husbandry

Recent Advances in Animal Nutrition 1988 focuses on how feeds affect animal nutrition.

This book looks at significant current grassland problems and issues, and provides an insight into grassland productivity in diverse areas of the world, with their various production systems.

Better validation of indigenous domestic animal genetic resources is becoming more important with regard to the potential of livestock for poverty alleviation and income generation.

The authors, a world leader in equine anatomy and imaging and a horse physiotherapist of international repute, provide a unique blend of basic biomechanics and practical physical therapeutic techniques, to relieve pain and improve performance, particularly in the sporting horse.

Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 5: Mammals is the fifth of five second-edition volumes representing a comprehensive and integrated overview of hormones and reproduction in fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.

Travelers are buzzing about apitourism--or "e;bee tourism"e;--as an opportunity to get close to bees and learn about the ecology and industry they support.

How perceptive are cats to the good (or bad) behaviour of humans?

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Written by two of the UK's most well-known and respected experts in the beekeeping community, this is the definitive, and most authoritative, guide to keeping bees in a city environment.

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Sunday Times bestsellerLessons to live by, without getting up with the lark Hannah Jackson (aka The Red Shepherdess) grew up in the Wirral, and hadn't set foot on a farm until she was 20-years-old.

Discover the wonder of bees (and other stripey insects) and how to help them survive.

'Go on, have a flutter!

From the bestselling author of The Happy Puppy Handbook comes the definitive guide to choosing the perfect puppy for you.

'Warmly entertaining.

This work was originally published in 1851, and was designed as a guide to the healthcare of domestic farm animals.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to food preservation, with a special focus on the making jams, jellies, marmalades, pickles, and sauces.

This antique text contains a fascinating a collection of articles on the buildings required for keeping cattle.

This book contains a collection of detailed articles on the methods and rations of feeding cattle for milk production.

This antique text contains a collection of detailed articles on the methods, science and equipment used in cream production.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This text contains a concise guide on the management of farm livestock, including sections on cattle, sheep, pigs, and horses.

A dairy is a commercial business concentrated around the harvesting of animal milk for human consumption.

This vintage book contains a collection of articles pertaining to the production of pork, with information on curing, cuts, slaughtering, and many other aspects.

This book contains a detailed guide to the buildings required for dairy cattle, including information on cowsheds, milking sheds, and loose boxes.

Contained within this book is a comprehensive treatise on different breeds of cattle, including information on Shorthorns, the Hereford, the Galloway and other breeds.

This book contains a comprehensive guide to breeding fish, with a special focus on breeding trout and salmon.

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.

"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 is a classic guide to incubating and brooding ducks, being a collection of carefully-selected articles dealing with such subjects as incubating, hatching, caring for young, and much more.

"e;A Guide to Keeping Ducks"e; contains information on the methods and equipment of the poultry farmer.

This book contains a wealth of classic material on the subject of dairy farming.

This vintage book contains a collection of classic articles on selecting a goat for the farm, with information on breeds, characteristics, signs of health, and many other related aspects.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the variety of breeds of poultry commonly used for meat and eggs.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to keeping rabbits for pleasure and profit, including information on housing, selection and breeding, feeding, diseases and ailments, and much more.

Boston's own dog, set down in 1926 by a breeder who could trace every winner in the ring back to its foundation stock.

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;The Practical Bee-Keeper"e; is a complete and comprehensive guide to bee-keeping, containing chapters on everything from the natural history and society of beers, to setting up and managing a successful apiary.

"e;Bee-Keeping for All"e; is a classic guide to keeping bees for profit and pleasure by Tickner Edwardes.

"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.

Volume two of the "e;Hand Books of the Textile Industry"e; contains information on the manufacture of woven fabrics and related materials, describing in detail the different types of yarn and how to use a loom.

"e;Making the Farm Pay"e; is a 1913 guide to setting up and running a profitable farm, with chapters on the contemporary market and innovations, land management, growing a variety of lucrative fruits and vegetables, how and who to employ, dairy production, etc.

This antiquarian book contains a detailed guide to the methods and equipment of livestock keeping, with information on the breeding, rearing, and fattening of sheep.

This volume contains a concise guide to the Havana and Havana-rex rabbit varieties, with information on selection, breeding, general care, diet, and much more.

This antiquarian volume comprises a comprehensive guide to bee-keeping, with information on seasonal management, diseases, enemies, swarming, honey production, and many other aspects of bee-keeping.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This vintage book contains a detailed and comprehensive guide to pork production, with information on slaughtering, curing, and canning.