Key Resource2002-01-01 Sheep covers in detail the characteristics and requirements of the livestock group, and how to raise and produce sheep ina variety of tropical zones and farming systems. Breeding, health, nutrition, and processing of meat, wool, skins, and milk, all all included in a cmprehensive style.
Eric Toensmeier is a lecturer at Yale University and a senior researcher with the climate change-focused nonprofit Project Drawdown. He is the author of “The Carbon Farming Solution.” Silvopasture systems combine trees, livestock (ruminants like cattle, sheep and goats) and grazing. Ranchers and...
1978-01-01 This book is useful for students, livestock extension specialists, progressive livestock owners and administrators concerned with the development of livestock industries and the economy.
This book gives clear practical instruction on how to raise pigs for pork and bacon and for the meat manufacturing industries. The information will be useful to those engaged in pig farming at the subsistence level or on a larger scale as well as to students of animas husbandry.
2004-01-20 Pigs and pig keeping in one form or another can be found almost anywhere in the world. Especially of course in country areas it is common for communities to have pigs rooting and roaming freely around the dwellings, to be brought in one day as household needs require. Pig keeping enterprises are...
Key Resource1995-01-01 This book examines how individual species of domestic livestock can be integrated into the whole concept of sustainable agriculure in the tropics. A wide range of different case studies from tropical countries provide practical models for livestock husbandry.
Key Resource1996-01-01 A guide to the practical management of goats in both tropical and temperate countries. Chapters on different breeds, nutrition and feeding, reproduction and kid rearing, and health and routine husbandry are included in the text.
Key Resource1993-01-01 Dairying covers in detail the rearing, husbandry and management, feeding and nutrition of calf, heifer and milk cows. Many examples of milk production systems and milk cow regimes are also described. The issues of the development of dairying and the constraints that affect farmers in tropical...