Animal Husbandry

Aquaculture now supplies half of the seafood and fisheries products consumed worldwide and is gaining international significance as a source of food and income. Future demands for seafood and fisheries products can only be met by expanded aquaculture...

This thought-provoking book explores the link between animals, people and their social and physical environments in relation to livestock farming, food safety, food security and sustainability. Providing an overview of livestock farming and animal...

Ducks are kept for profit in a great diversity of circumstances in both temperate and tropical climates. Outlining the biology of the domestic duck, this book also combines the authors' considerable practical and scientific experience to provide...

Proper formulation of diets for horses depends on adequate knowledge of their nutrient requirements. These requirements depend on the breed and age of the horse and whether it is exercising, pregnant, or lactating. A great deal of new information...

Examining sustainable poultry production systems across Europe, this book contains a selected cross section of papers from the 2014 UK Poultry Science Symposium. It reviews essential topics such as resources and supply chains, the global poultry market,...

This textbook provides an integrated view of beef cattle production with a systems based approach, discussing the interrelationships of a broad range of aspects with the overall goal of optimising cattle production. This book provides the background to...

This book describes the cellular and molecular mechanisms that control farm animal growth, includingdevelopment and body composition. The emphasis is on circulating hormones, local growth factors andgene transcription factors which regulate growth and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612121505Author Don SchriderFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Storey Publishing LLCPublisher Storey Publishing LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616084363Author Celia LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 744gDimensions(mm) 263mm *...

This report describes a campaign to limit the use of antimicrobials - specifically antibiotics - in the Danish swine-producing sector. It is a testimony of the collaboration between the regulatory sector within the Ministry of Environment and Food (and...

Raising a pig for meat is easy to do, even in a small space like a suburban backyard. In just five months, a 30-pound shoat will become a 250-pound hog and provide you with more than 100 pounds of pork, including tenderloin, ham, ribs, bacon, sausage,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800620483Author Raphael A MrodeFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint CABI PublishingPublisher CABI Publishing

Help your horse put his best foot forward! Stressing the critical importance of hoof care to your horse's overall health, this guide covers all aspects of proper hoof maintenance - from dealing with lost shoes, cracks, and thrush to promoting healthy...

"The Litts offer the best organic methods for keeping backyard chickens safe and healthy." -Gail Damerow, author of The Guide to Raising ChickensThe New Rules of the Roost goes beyond the basics and addresses the real problems that crop up over time with...

Poultry are the most widely used animal protein source in the world: billions of meat birds are produced globally each year, using 360 million tonnes of feed. Within Europe, over 30,000 companies involved in the production of poultry create an annual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635860436Author Kelly KloberFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Storey Publishing LLCPublisher Storey Publishing LLC

Including information on cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, and goats, and exotics like bison, rabbits, elk, and deer How can anyone from a backyard hobbyist to a large-scale rancher go about raising and selling ethically produced meats directly to...

Wildbase is a very special hospital for very special animals. Tui, kiwi, kaka, kakapo, little blue penguins, seals and many more of New Zealand's most rare and special animals come here when they are sick and injured. A Day at Wildbase gets up close to...

From barnyard to backyard, lowly hens have flown the country coop and joined the city chicken movement. A new generation of small-acreage farmers raising heritage breeds has inspired urbanites and suburbanites across America to install some poultry out...

Recent interest in how poultry are housed and managed in order to ensure profitability, sustainability, and good levels of animal welfare, are challenging issues that commercial poultry keepers face, particularly where legislation is bringing about legal...

Organic animal production has increased rapidly in recent years to keep up with the increasing consumer demand for organic meats. There are many guidelines and restrictions on what should go into the feedstuffs of organically farmed animals, from which...

An understanding of social behaviour is increasingly necessary in farm animal husbandry as more animals are housed in groups rather than in individual stalls or pens. There may be economic or welfare reasons for such housing. This book is the first to...

Mineral nutrition of livestock is an area of significant importance due to its contribution to farm animal economics and health. With a focus on macromineral utilization in farm animals, this book brings together quantitative aspects of phosphorus and...

Feed intake is the central issue in animal husbandry, being the key factor in determining health, welfare, environmental impact and productivity. With the focus on these issues, this book has been developed from the 5th Zodiac Symposium held in...

Drawing on the latest research in archaeozoology, archaeology, and molecular biology, Animals as Domesticates traces the history of the domestication of animals around the world. From the llamas of South America and the turkeys of North America, to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Regional-Illustration) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780870206177Author Craig SchreinerFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Wisconsin...

In response to concerns about animal welfare, food assurance schemes are now incorporating standards for animal welfare. This is particularly important in the poultry industry, where much attention has focused on the welfare of broilers (meat birds)...

In a changing climate, livestock production is expected to exhibit dual roles of mitigation and adaptation in order to meet the challenge of food security. This book approaches the issues of livestock production and climate change through three sections:...

This book is the third in a set of four providing a series on controlled reproduction in farm animals. The aim of the series is to provide a general review of the literature dealing with the different ways in which reproduction in the major farm mammals...

For a number of years the promise of biotechnology has been dimmed by concerns over the intrinsic safety of transgenic organisms. Although considerable knowledge of the properties of recombinant systems and a vast volume of data gathered from different...

China is one of the world's largest developing agricultural countries and dominates the international livestock revolution in terms of its aggregate size and growth rate. While the sheep meat industry is still in the early stages of development, it is an...

Human-animal interactions have a profound effect on farm animals and stockpeople alike. Training of stockpeople can improve livestock welfare and in turn productivity, and is a principle area of focus after improvements in genetics, nutrition,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840334036Author Una Flora CochraneFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingWeight(grams) 180gDimensions(mm)...

Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: Distribution, Abundance, Species Richness offers a new synthesis of the state-of-the-art of hierarchical models for plant and animal distribution, abundance, and community characteristics such as species richness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789247114Author Lawrence AldersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint CABIPublisher CABIWeight(grams) 156g

Joel Salatin is perhaps the nation's best known farmer, whose environmentally friendly, sustainable Polyface Farms has been featured in Food, Inc. and Time magazine. Now in his first book written for a faith audience, Salatin offers a deeply personal...

With delightful photographs, Jenna Woginrich chronicles the life journey of three chickens (Amelia, Honey, and Tilda) from fluffy, newly hatched bundles to grown hens laying eggs of their own. Following their progress from day to day and week to week,...

Authored by a renowned animal scientist with a peerless reputation in organic livestock nutrition, A Practical Guide to the Feeding of Organic Farm Animals aims to translate the science of feeding organic livestock and distil it into practical guidance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910148037Author Graham DexterFormat PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint LALaSPublisher LALaSWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984338207Author Andrew W LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Good Earth Publications, IncPublisher Good Earth Publications, IncWeight(grams)...