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This early work on sheep farming is both expensive and hard to find
in its first edition. It contains information on breed varieties,
rearing, fattening and wool production. This is a fascinating work
and is thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in livestock
management. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating
back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and
before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest
and relevance to a modern audience. Each publication has been
professionally curated and includes all details on the original
source material. This particular instalment, "Breeds of Milk Goats"
contains information on the Nubian, Murciene, Toggenburg and many
more. It is intended to illustrate the main goat breeds and serves
as a guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge of the
subject and understand the field in its historical context. We are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and
before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest
and relevance to a modern audience. Each publication has been
professionally curated and includes all details on the original
source material. This particular instalment, "The Health of Goats"
contains information on the diagnosis and treatment of goat
ailments. It is intended to illustrate aspects of goat health and
serves as a guide for anyone wishing to obtain a general knowledge
of the subject and understand the field in its historical context.
We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high
quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This early work on pig farming is both expensive and hard to find
in its first edition. It contains information on breeding, care,
swine selection and much more. This is a fascinating work and is
thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in livestock
management. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating
back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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"The American cowboy is a mythical character who refuses to die,"
says author John R. Erickson. On the one hand he is a common man: a
laborer, a hired hand who works for wages. Yet in his lonely
struggle against nature and animal cunning, he becomes larger than
life. Who is this cowboy? Where did he come from and where is he
today? Erickson addresses these questions based on firsthand
observation and experience in Texas and Oklahoma. And in the
process of describing and defining the modern working cowboy-his
work, his tools and equipment, his horse, his roping technique, his
style of dress, his relationships with his wife and his
employer-Erickson gives a thorough description of modern ranching,
the economic milieu in which the cowboy operates. The first edition
of this book was published in 1981. For this second edition
Erickson has thoroughly revised and expanded the book to discuss
recent developments in cowboy culture, making The Modern Cowboy the
most up-to-date source on cowboy and ranch life today. "We meet the
modern cowboy (his dress depends on weather, chores, and vanity)
and follow him through the year: spring roundup, branding and
'working' the calves; spotting problem animals and cutting them
from the herd; repairing windmills and mending fences; fall
roundup, and feeding animals in winter. . . . This is a lively
portrait, sure to appeal to all Western buffs."- Publishers Weekly
"For a straightforward, highly readable account of today's cowboy,
you can't do better. . . . Informative, engaging, and clearly the
real thing."- Kirkus Reviews "Erickson has caught the ambience of
the working cowboy, what he loves to do, and what he must do to
keep a ranch operating day-to-day and season-to-season. In doing
this, he actually provides an account of how much cowboying has
changed in the hundred or so years of its existence."- Western
American Literature
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 calcium metabolism
in farm animals in chapters written by leading researchers
worldwide. It covers isotope dilution technique, phosphorus and
calcium utilization in ruminants (sheep, goats and cattle) and
non-ruminants (swine, horses) and recommended value of phosphorus
and calcium inclusion in feed. It is an essential resource for
researchers and students in animal sciences and nutrition.
"Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the
Globalization of Veterinary Medicine" offers a new and
exciting
comparative approach to the complex interrelationships of
microbes, markets, and medicine in the global economy. It draws
upon fourteen case studies from the Americas, western Europe, and
the European and Japanese colonies to illustrate how the rapid
growth of the international trade in animals through the nineteenth
century engendered the spread of infectious diseases, sometimes
with devastating consequences for indigenous pastoral societies.
At different times and across much of the globe, livestock
epidemics have challenged social order and provoked state
interventions, which were sometimes opposed by pastoralists. The
intensification of agriculture has transformed environments, with
consequences for animal and human health. But the last two
centuries have also witnessed major changes in the way societies
have conceptualized diseases and sought to control them. The rise
of germ theories and the discovery of vaccines against some
infections made it possible to move beyond the blunt tools of
animal culls and restrictive quarantines of the past. Nevertheless,
these older methods have remained important to strategies of
control and prevention, as demonstrated during the recent outbreak
of foot and mouth disease in Britain in 2001.
From the late nineteenth century, advances in veterinary
technologies afforded veterinary scientists a new professional
status and allowed them to wield greater political influence. In
the European and Japanese colonies, state support for biomedical
veterinary science often led to coercive policies for managing the
livestock economies of the colonized peoples. In western Europe and
North America, public responses to veterinary interventions were
often unenthusiastic and reflected a latent distrust of outside
interference and state regulation. Politics, economics, and science
inform these essays on the history of animal diseases and the
expansion in veterinary medicine.
A comprehensive book intended for anyone maintaining bats in
captivity. It comprises 44 papers by 22 contributing authors. Bats
in Captivity is the only book of its kind, detailing the care of
captive bats worldwide. This volume, Biological and Medical
Aspects, includes a drug formulary, information on public health,
anatomy and physiology, controlling reproduction, parasitology, and
veterinary medicine and surgery, plus many other related subjects.
In recent years, enhanced-growth feeding programs in dairy calves
have been widely studied. It consists to feed calves high amounts
of milk or milk replacer to achieve their potential growth. When
calves are fed with an enhanced-growth feeding program grow around
800-1000 g/d in contrast to conventional feeding programs, that
limits the offer of milk replacer to 500 g/d and calves only grow
450 g/d. Conventional feeding programs are conceived to stimulate
starter consumption to improve rumen development and wean calves as
soon as possible. This work consists on four studies that compare
conventional and enhanced-growth feeding programs. In all the
studies, conventional-fed calves consumed more starter during the
preweaning period than enhanced-fed calves, but this difference was
only maintained until one or two weeks after weaning. Although
enhanced-fed calves maintained a numerical advantage in body weight
compared with conventional-fed calves later in life, this advantage
did neither reduce the age at breeding nor improve fertility at
first breeding in enhanced-fed calves.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2011 Texas's
King Ranch has become legendary for a long list of innovations, the
most enduring of which is the development of the first official
cattle breed in the Americas, the Santa Gertrudis. Among those who
played a crucial role in the breed's success were Librado and
Alberto "Beto" Maldonado, master showmen of the King Ranch. A true
"bull whisperer," Librado Maldonado developed a method for gentling
and training cattle that allowed him and his son Beto to show the
Santa Gertrudis to their best advantage at venues ranging from the
famous King Ranch auctions to a Chicago television studio to the
Dallas-Fort Worth airport. They even boarded a plane with the
cattle en route to the International Fair in Casablanca, Morocco,
where they introduced the Santa Gertrudis to the African continent.
In The Master Showmen of King Ranch, Beto Maldonado recalls an
eventful life of training and showing King Ranch Santa Gertrudis.
He engagingly describes the process of teaching two-thousand-pound
bulls to behave "like gentlemen" in the show ring, as well as the
significant logistical challenges of transporting them to various
high-profile venues around the world. His reminiscences, which span
more than seventy years of King Ranch history, combine with quotes
from other Maldonado family members, co-workers, and ranch owners
to shed light on many aspects of ranch life, including day-to-day
work routines, family relations, women's roles, annual
celebrations, and the enduring ties between King Ranch owners and
the vaquero families who worked on the ranch through several
generations.
A son of humble circumstance (his father was an innkeeper), a
champion of the working class, and an early anti-corporate
activist, William Cobbett was most vociferous in his ideas about
what makes for a happy and productive peasant. In this 1821 classic
of self-reliance and the efficient usage and management of the
small farm, Corbett shares his instructions and philosophies
regarding . the brewing of beer (and why the notorious tea is not
an acceptable substitute) . the making of bread (and why the modern
custom of using potatoes to serve the same dietary purpose is
deplorable) . the keeping of cows, pigs, bees, geese, and other
useful creatures . the growing of straw for making hats and bonnets
. the building of an ice house . and much more. British journalist
and radical WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835) published the weekly
newsletter Political Register and is also the author of Advice to
Young Men (1829), The Progress of a Ploughboy to a Seat in
Parliament (1830), and Rural Rides (1830).
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Originally published in 1924 and regularly revised since then, this
book is an exhaustive study of the craft of pig-keeping. Full of
detailed instructions from a more natural era of farming, this book
tels all that you need to now to successfully rear pigs, and is
still of great practical use today. Many of the earliest books,
particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now
extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents
Include: What's Wrong? The Danish System The Open-Air System The
Breeds The Breeding Herd Farrowing and Weaning The Foods Feeding
Registration and Identification Marks Vitamins The Absorption of
Foods Balanced Rations Rations For In-Pig Sows and Gilts Rations
For Sows With Young Rations For Young Pigs Rations For Pigs From 3
to 6 Months Old Rations For Fattening Pigs Weighing Diseases Short
Notes The Outlook Imports of Bacon, Hams, Pork and Lard Pig
Societies Breeders' Tables Memoranda
Fresh Air or Bust To stay healthy, your chickens need plenty of
ventilation probably more than they re getting today. This was
discovered over 100 years ago, but has been largely forgotten.
Today s small-flock housing tends to be dank, dark, and smelly.
Chickens, like miners canaries, are easily harmed by poor air
quality. Wet litter breeds disease. Darkness forces chickens, like
parrots, to be artificially inactive. Dank, dark, and smelly is a
deadly combination Closed chicken houses are so harmful that
knocking out a wall can cause an immediate improvement, even in
winter. Chickens, after all, have a thick coat of feathers to keep
them warm, but are vulnerable to poor air quality and pathogens in
the litter; and their unwillingness to eat in the dark means they
can starve in the midst of plenty. Fresh-Air Poultry Houses was
written by Dr. Prince T. Woods, a noted poultry health expert. Dr.
Woods describes not only his own poultry houses, but those of many
of his clients, giving the book a breadth of experience that makes
it a unique resource. This 1924 book is old-fashioned and a little
eccentric, but in a good way. Fresh-Air Poultry Houses is a good
example of the Norton Creek Press motto: Most of the best books are
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A Sketch Of Its Early Introduction Into The United States And
Canada, And Subsequent Rise To Popularity In The Western Cattle
Trade, With Sundry Notes On The Management Of Breeding Herds.
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