Agriculture Animal Husbandry category: 3344 books
Dirt Hog
A Hands-On Guide to Raising Pigs Outdoors...Naturally
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
In today's market, range-rearing of swine provides the family farm with a key venture for diversification and cash flow-perhaps no other large animal enterprise offers as fast a turnaround on investment. Range-produced pork is now sought out by the informed consumer concerned with the issues of production...
by Rosamund Young
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
**"Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it... Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable."—Lydia Davis
In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows...
The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals
A Complete Guide to Raising Chickens, Pigs, Cows, and More
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Imagine putting together a big breakfast using the eggs straight from your own chickens, or bacon straight from the pig. This is a sort of ideal that many dream of, but few ever get to experience. Now with The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals, that dream can be turned into a reality, and also...
Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 3
Animal health and welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Sample content
Not sure what you're getting if you buy this book? Click on the cover image below to open a PDF and preview pages from the book. Alternatively, watch our informative video introduction.
Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals
The Great Game of Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Dominance and Aggression in Humans and Other Animals: The Great Game of Life examines human nature and the influence of evolution, genetics, chemistry, nurture, and the sociopolitical environment as a way of understanding how and why humans behave in aggressive and dominant ways. The book walks...
by Robert Huber, Danika L. Bannasch, Patricia Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Genes interact with the environment, experience, and biology of the brain to shape an animal’s behavior. This latest volume in Advances in Genetics, organized according to the most widely used model organisms, describes the latest genetic discoveries in relation to neural circuit development and...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
The Guide to Investigation of Mouse Pregnancy is the first publication to cover the mouse placenta or the angiogenic tree the mother develops to support the placenta. This much-needed resource covers monitoring of the cardiovascular system, gestational programming of chronic adult disease, epigenetic...
by Harold Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This work advocates the restoration of the North American tallgrass prairie, which is rapidly disappearing. Historical descriptions of prairie aesthetics are outlined. As we are experiencing a worldwide mixing of plant species, prairie restoration is particularly important. Plants alien to North America...
Horse Health Care
A Step-By-Step Photographic Guide to Mastering Over 100 Horsekeeping Skills
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
A healthy horse is a happy horse. Packed with dozens of essential health care skills every horse owner should know, this guide will help you keep your animal healthy, save you money, and make your horse operation more self-sufficient. Cherry Hill provides illustrated step-by-step instructions for...
by Steve Webb
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Extinctions have always occurred and always will, so what is so surprising about the megafauna extinctions? They were caused by humans and were the first of many extinctions that eventually led to the extinction of the Moa, Steller's Sea Cow, the Dodo, Great Auk and countless other species great and...
Your Calf
A Kid's Guide to Raising and Showing Beef and Dairy Calves
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Designed for kids ages 9 and up, this friendly and encouraging guide introduces children to the fun and rewarding experience of raising a calf. With age-appropriate instructions, clear photographs, and easy-to-read diagrams, Heather Smith Thomas covers the basics of choosing the right calf, feeding...
by
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This book provides insights into the current state of sorghum genomics. It particularly focuses on the tools and strategies employed in genome sequencing and analysis, public and private genomic resources and how all this information is leading to direct outcomes for plant breeders. The advent of...
Elements of Ethology
A textbook for agricultural and veterinary students
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The object of this book is to introduce ethology to agricultural and veterinary students. Today ethology covers many approaches to the study of animal behaviour which are connected by one unifying concept: all behaviour must be considered in relation to the ecology and evolutionary history of the...
by Robert Krieger
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
The Handbook of Pesticide Toxicology is a comprehensive, two-volume reference guide to the properties, effects, and regulation of pesticides that provides the latest and most complete information to researchers investigating the environmental, agricultural, veterinary, and human-health impacts of...