Animal husbandry Books

Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestseller and International PhenomenonOne of the Top Ten Books of 2015, Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times.It''s bloody marvelous. - Helen Macdonald, New York Times bestselling author of H IS FOR HAWKCaptivating... A book about continuity and roots and a sense of belonging in an age that''s increasingly about mobility and self-invention. Hugely compelling. - Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesSome people''s lives are entirely their own creations. James Rebanks'' isn''t. The first son of a shepherd, who was the first son of a shepherd himself, his family have lived and worked in the Lake District of Northern England for generations, further back than recorded history. It''s a part of the world known mainly for its romantic descriptions by Wordsworth and the much loved illustrated children''s books of Beatrix Potter. But James'' world is quite different. His way of

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Book SynopsisProvides producers with comprehensive and practical information on all aspects of the goat meat industry. The book covers selecting and preparing a property, choosing breeding stock, breeding, health care and nutrition, drought feeding, condition scoring and marketing.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Will breeding meat goats pay? 2: Fencing and yards 3: Choosing your breeding stock 4: Breeding season 5: Kidding management 6: Tagging, marking, vaccinating, weaning and foot-trimming 7: Nutrition 8: Drought feeding and strategies 9: Health 10: Parasites 11: Poisoning 12: Marketing Appendix: Resources for producers Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCovers all aspects of the beef industry from paddock to plate. This is an international text with an emphasis on Australian beef production, written by experts in the field.Trade Review"It is essential reading for someone with beef cattle or those interested in starting a beef enterprise" * Grass Roots *

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Book SynopsisEverything You Need to Know about Natural Parasite Control for Livestock, All in One Place! This concise book is loaded with valuable information about ridding livestock of their unwanted guests. Whether you're raising sheep, pigs, horses, cows, chickens, goats, or other farm animals, this book will teach you how to keep them healthy and parasite-free through organic systems and without the use of harsh chemicals. It includes easy-to-follow scientific explanations, and provides research-based practices that really work. Internal parasite control can be accomplished naturally 1) through environmental modifications, 2) by producing and using easy-to-grow & harvest anti-parasitics, and, 3) by understanding the life-cycles and road blocks of internal parasites. In this practical guide you will learn about: Parasites, hosts, and lifecycles How to develop a working pasture rotation system How to create healthy pastures and clean watering systems Administering natural antiparasitics Growing, collecting, and processing natural and herbal antiparasitics And more! This is a necessary reference manual for all sustainable, natural, animal-husbandry endeavors!

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Book SynopsisHelen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone bookbeautiful, real, full of life.Bill McKibben, authorThe End of NatureSheep have helped me become a good shepherd, not just to them, but to a place that is my sustenance and joy as well as my unending labor and worry.In the heart of Vermont's Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner are presented with the opportunity to steward a two-hundred-acre conserved farm. Whybrow knows that belonging more than anything requires participation and radically intertwines her life with the land. Six months after purchasing Knoll Farm, they unload a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the field and Whybrow becomes a shepherd entering into nature's constant cycle of life into death into life and all its unexpected lessons.The challenging and profoundly rewarding work unfolds for Whybrow in the everyday rituals of farmsteading and caring for her familybirthing lambs in the late winter, harvesting blueberries in summer, fending off coyotes and foxes, seasonal shearingwhile instilling the lessons of the land in her daughter and caring for her mother. As life at Knoll Farm endures years both abundant and lean, she learns that true stewardship is about accepting change and adapting. She embraces a transcendent rhythm of blood and bone, milk and muck. At once inspiring and brave, deeply felt and gorgeously written, The Salt Stones is a loving look at the world through a shepherd's interconnected ethos.

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Book SynopsisNow in paperback, Marina Marchese's inspirational and practical story of learning to raise honeybees and creating a life she loves '[An] engaging, delightfully informative work?' ?Publishers Weekly 'Marchese has given us a lovely gift. Honeybee is an entertaining and useful primer for the novice and honeybee devotee alike.' ?Washington Times 'Surpassing the predictable 'how I changed careers' memoir of finding the good life, Marchese's informative guide is packed with facts about everything from pollination to harvesting, life cycles to historical lore, nutritional benefits to gourmet flavor combinations, medical applications to unusual varieties.' ?BooklistIn 1999, Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a neighbor's honeybee hives. She quit her job, acquired her own bees, built her own hives, harvested honey, earned a certificate in apitherapy, studied wine tasting in order to transfer those skills to honey tasting, and eventually opened her own honey business. Today, Red Bee? Honey sells artisanal honey and honey-related products to shops and restaurants all over the country. More than an inspiring story of one woman's transformative relationship with honeybees (some of nature's most fascinating creatures), Honeybee is also bursting with information about all aspects of bees, beekeeping, and honey?including life inside the hive; the role of the queen, workers, and drones; pollination and its importance to sustaining all life; the culinary pleasures of honey; hiving and keeping honeybees; the ancient practice of apitherapy, or healing with honey, pollen, and bee venom; and much more. Recipes for food and personal care products appear throughout. Also included is an excellent, one-of-a-kind appendix that lists 75 different honey varietals, with information on provenance, tasting notes, and food-and-wine pairings.

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Book SynopsisGood nutrition is essential for a strong and healthy horse. Here are in-depth explorations on the benefits of additives and herbal supplements inform Worth’s dietary approach toward treating common health problems that include colic, cribbing, Cushing disease, ulcers, tying-up syndrome, and more. Providing your horse with a healthy, well-balanced diet will keep him looking and feeling his best for years to come.

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Book SynopsisTurkeys are an excellent source of succulent meat, rich eggs, and nutrient-dense manure, and raising them is a rewarding and profitable activity for many farmers. With helpful tips on acquiring organic certification, processing both meat and eggs, and marketing your products, you’ll have all the information you need to successfully raise your own healthy and productive turkeys.

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Book SynopsisBorn to Farm sheds light upon the enormous changes that have taken place in farming over the past 90 years, as seen through the eyes of one of the participants. It is an absorbing and fascinating autobiography; the author's enthusiasm and quest for knowledge, his ingenuity and practical skills, have enabled him to keep abreast of changes in the wider world while building up the family farming enterprise in Suffolk. The author's early memories of the 1930s and of his school days, evoke a bygone era in the countryside and on the farm. Lifelong learning is a theme which runs through the book. Opportunities for learning and travel through the Young Farmers' Club, for example, are described with humour and give an insight into farming both in the UK and the USA during the 1950s. Back on Red House Farm, David Black deals with everyday challenges as he progresses from dogsbody to decision-maker. Problem-solving is part of a farmer's life and no aspect of the business escapes his steady hand and scrutiny. Gradually, the huge variety of crops grown is streamlined but not before we've learned about harnessing horses and draining the land, about virus-free strawberry plants and fields of tulips and peonies, of cocksfoot and fescue. Pigs are an important aspect of the family business and the evolution of suitable feed mixes, pig housing, breeding and outdoor rearing, integrated with cereal production and milling on the farm, makes compelling reading. Changes to field sizes and to farm buildings and the provision of housing for farm workers are all covered, with many interesting anecdotes. The value of sharing knowledge and of co-operation with other farmers - both formally and informally - is made apparent. The author is full of admiration for the contributions of others, but modest about his own considerable achievements. Hard work, encouragement of others, and a 'can do' attitude summarise his approach. Family life is explored and glimpses into village life provide an interesting social history of the period. Working alongside family members has its own rewards and challenges and the journey has begun along the path to secure a way forward for future generations.Table of ContentsFOREWORD v AUTHOR'S NOTE vii INTRODUCTION ix Chapter 1 EARLY MEMORIES 1 Chapter 2 SCHOOL DAYS 24 Chapter 3 BIB AND BRACES 39 Chapter 4 THE YOUNG FARMERS' CLUB 70 Chapter 5 BROADENING HORIZONS 100 Chapter 6 PIGS 114 Chapter 7 FARM BUILDINGS 153 Chapter 8 CO-OPERATIVE ACTIVITIES 170 Chapter 9 FAMILY LIFE 191 Chapter 10 REFLECTIONS 218

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Book SynopsisWant to expertly look after alpacas? Would you like a step by step guide on raising alpacas? Read through this book and you''ll discover everything you need to know from... Selecting a healthy alpaca, associated costs, housing, husbandry, health and breeding, plus useful frequently asked questions. Each section is covered in detail. You''ll also find a breeder''s directory detailing sites across America, Canada and the UK plus a list of relevant websites. Discover everything from Which way the alpaca home should face (and why) What important things you need to know about worming What fencing is recommended and what to avoid How to recognise and more importantly how to prevent some common health problems And lots lots more...

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Book SynopsisThis booklet, together with the following two,-which are well under way and will succeed it at intervals of, we hope, no more than six months, sets the stage for a new editorial enterprise in the field of brain science. The accent is on the functional aspects of brains rather than on their develop­ ment, hence the title of the series. The central question being how neural activity is related to behavior, there will be, naturally, a wide scatter of sub­ jects, and Heiligenberg's monograph on electric fish may be considered typ­ ical of the expected standard deviation from the mean. Deviations in other directions may go as far as the sensory neuron, or brain theory, or aphasia, or farther. The next contributions planned for the series are: Precht, Neuronal Operations in the Vestibular System, and Movshon, Genes and Environment in the Development of the Visual Cortex. Our aim is to ap­ proach the central area by means of something like an evolving handbook of brain science. The individual monographs should describe promising and successful approaches, even in areas where the last word is far from being said. Besides originaI monographs and compounds of the author's own published papers, reviews are also we1come if they are more than the sum of the parts. The publisher promises speedy publication, and the editors will see that the manuscripts will be readable as well as interesting. Tübingen, Summer 1977 V.Table of ContentsA. Introduction.- B. General Physiological and Anatomical Background.- I.The Electric Organ.- II.Electroreceptors.- III. Taxonomy of Electrolocating Fish.- IV. The Spectral Composition of Electric Organ Discharges.- V.The Neuroanatomy of Electric Fish.- 1. Brain Structures in the Mormyriformes.- 2. Brain Structures in the Gymnotoidei.- 3. A Comparison of Gymnotoid and Mormyriform Brain Structures.- C. The Mechanism of Electrolocation.- I. Spatial Aspects of Electrolocation.- II. Response Characteristics and Central Projections of Tuberous Electroreceptors.- 1. Pulse Species.- a) Mormyrids.- b) Gymnotpids.- 2. Wave Species.- a) Gymnarchus.- b) Gymnotoids.- III.Central Processing of Electric Images.- IV. Behavioral Measures of Electrolocation Performance.- V. Electrolocation Performance in the Presence of Electric Noise and Mechanisms of Jamming Avoidance.- VI. Neuronal Mechanisms Linked to Jamming Avoidance and Electrolocation Under Jamming Conditions. Hypotheses and Results.- 1. Pulse Species.- a) Mormyrids.- b) Gymnotoid Pulse Species.- 2. Wave Species.- a) Gymnarchus.- b) Gymnotoid Wave Species.- VII. Speculations on the Evolution of Pulse- and Wave-Type Electric Fish.- References.

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