Animal husbandry books

The Domestic Animal Diversity Information System, DAD-IS, provides information and tools for management, teaching...  Read More >>

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An overview of sheep, their history, habits, care, and usefulness by giving us wool.  Read More >>

This is an account of pigs and pig-keeping from the 16th century to the 20th century, concentrating on the domestic,...  Read More >>

Rather than describing the techniques of forage production, this book focuses on forage husbandry for ruminants....  Read More >>

Over the last twenty years there have been major changes in pig production. One such change concerns the lactating...  Read More >>

From true cowhands who stood tall in the saddle as the prototypes of the American myth, historian Patrick Dearen...  Read More >>

A scientist before he was a beekeeper, Mark L. Winston found in his new hobby a paradigm for understanding the role...  Read More >>

In essays which originally appeared as columns in the professional journal ""Bee Culture"", Winston uses beekeeping...  Read More >>

Provides a description of the principal constituents of milk and of the chemical aspects of principal families of...  Read More >>

The authors have revised and expanded their comprehensive guide to cover changes in beekeeping. They discuss the...  Read More >>

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This volume and its companion Nonhuman Primates in Biomedical Research: Biology and Management represent the most...  Read More >>

Anthropologist Simonelli writes vividly, her prose a moving testimonial to the courage farming takes.... The Book...  Read More >>

This guidance is prepared in consultation with HSE, the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, and the Spongiform...  Read More >>

An evaluation of the crucial role of risk communication in dealing with public controversies.  Read More >>

Presents knowledge about the nutritional needs of swine that consider such factors as growth rate, carcass leanness,...  Read More >>

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From the author of the widely acclaimed A Country Year comes another elegant and appealing book about the world...  Read More >>

The product of considerable field research in Brazil by the author, this book presents a positive perspective on...  Read More >>

This book contains papers on the latest research on energy metabolism and other aspects of physiology of farmed...  Read More >>

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These 17 contributions take a multidisciplinary approach to the mad cow crisis, discussing its history and ramifications,...  Read More >>

This book presents, uniquely, all aspects of our current knowledge, drawn from such diverse disciplines as physiological...  Read More >>