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Freies Abferkeln in der KW-Bucht - Beschreibung einer neuartigen, tiergerechten Bucht mit freier Abferkelung (German,... Freies Abferkeln in der KW-Bucht - Beschreibung einer neuartigen, tiergerechten Bucht mit freier Abferkelung (German, Paperback)
Rudolf Wiedmann
R799 Discovery Miles 7 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Crianza de Burros - La Guia Definitiva de la Seleccion, Cuidado y Entrenamiento de Burros, que Incluye una Comparacion entre... Crianza de Burros - La Guia Definitiva de la Seleccion, Cuidado y Entrenamiento de Burros, que Incluye una Comparacion entre Burros Estandar y Miniatura (Spanish, Paperback)
Dion Rosser
R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Homesteading en su patio trasero - La guia definitiva sobre homesteading para cultivar su propia comida, criar pollos y... Homesteading en su patio trasero - La guia definitiva sobre homesteading para cultivar su propia comida, criar pollos y construir una mini granja que le lleve a ser autosuficiente y a generar ingresos (Spanish, Paperback)
Dion Rosser
R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cria de ganado - La guia definitiva para la cria de caballos, burros, ganado vacuno, llamas, cerdos, ovejas y cabras (Spanish,... Cria de ganado - La guia definitiva para la cria de caballos, burros, ganado vacuno, llamas, cerdos, ovejas y cabras (Spanish, Paperback)
Dion Rosser
R747 Discovery Miles 7 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Cattle Guard - Its History and Lore (Paperback): James F. Hoy, Jimmy M. Skaggs The Cattle Guard - Its History and Lore (Paperback)
James F. Hoy, Jimmy M. Skaggs
R965 Discovery Miles 9 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With this study the cattle guard joins the sod house, the windmill, and barbed wire as a symbol of range country on the American Great Plains. A U.S. folk innovation now in use throughout the world, the cattle guard functions as both a gate and a fence: it keeps livestock from crossing, but allows automobiles and people to cross freely. The author blends traditional history and folklore to trace the origins of the cattle guard and to describe how, in true folk fashion, the device in its simplest form-wooden poles or logs spaced in parallel fashion over a pit in the roadway-was reinvented and adapted throughout livestock country. Hoy traces the origins of the cattle guard to flat stone stiles unique to Cornwall, England, then through the railroad cattle guard, in use in this country as early as 1836, and finally to the Great Plains where, probably in 1905, the first ones appeared on roads. He describes regional variations in cattle guards and details unusual types. He provides information on cattle-guard makers, who range from local blacksmiths and welders to farmers and ranchers to large manufacturers. In addition to documenting the economic and cultural significance of the cattle guard, this volume reveals much about early twentieth-century farm and ranch life. It will be of interest not only to folklorists and historians of agriculture and Western America, but also to many Plains-area farmers, ranchers, and oilmen.

Het Vlaamsch neerhof - Met medewerking van den bestuurder van het "Vlaamsch Hoenderhof" te Kapellen, bij Antwerpen (Dutch,... Het Vlaamsch neerhof - Met medewerking van den bestuurder van het "Vlaamsch Hoenderhof" te Kapellen, bij Antwerpen (Dutch, Paperback)
Kerby Jackson; Augustijn Hyacinthus Mar Van Speybrouck
R616 Discovery Miles 6 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Manual Practico del Pastoreo Racional Voisin (PRV) (Spanish, Paperback): Michael Rua Franco Manual Practico del Pastoreo Racional Voisin (PRV) (Spanish, Paperback)
Michael Rua Franco
R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vom Rittergut zur landwirtschaftlichen Lehr- und Forschungsstation - Geschichte eines rheinischen Hofes (German, Paperback):... Vom Rittergut zur landwirtschaftlichen Lehr- und Forschungsstation - Geschichte eines rheinischen Hofes (German, Paperback)
Gabriele Wasser
R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Criar cerdos - La guia imprescindible para criar cerdos en su granja (Spanish, Paperback): Dion Rosser Criar cerdos - La guia imprescindible para criar cerdos en su granja (Spanish, Paperback)
Dion Rosser
R383 Discovery Miles 3 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Das Feuerpferd (German, Paperback): Annemarie Nikolaus, Monique Lhoir, Sabine Abel Das Feuerpferd (German, Paperback)
Annemarie Nikolaus, Monique Lhoir, Sabine Abel
R376 Discovery Miles 3 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La Pisciculture (French, Paperback): Jules Haime La Pisciculture (French, Paperback)
Jules Haime
R239 Discovery Miles 2 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beef From Grass (Paperback): Namukolo Mukutu Beef From Grass (Paperback)
Namukolo Mukutu
R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Intar Ganadera - Libro para el registro de Eventos en Fincas Ganaderas (Spanish, Paperback): Danilo Antonio Parra Rincon Intar Ganadera - Libro para el registro de Eventos en Fincas Ganaderas (Spanish, Paperback)
Danilo Antonio Parra Rincon
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Les Animaux Reproducteurs (French, Paperback): Leonce De Lavergne Les Animaux Reproducteurs (French, Paperback)
Leonce De Lavergne
R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rinderhaltung in Kultur und OEkonomie Madagaskars (German, Paperback): Sabine Berchem Rinderhaltung in Kultur und OEkonomie Madagaskars (German, Paperback)
Sabine Berchem
R1,407 Discovery Miles 14 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kamerunschafe werden krank (German, Paperback): Beate Bode-Buchner Kamerunschafe werden krank (German, Paperback)
Beate Bode-Buchner
R311 Discovery Miles 3 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
That Sheep May Safely Graze - Rebuilding Animal Health Care in War-Torn Afghanistan (Paperback): David M Sherman That Sheep May Safely Graze - Rebuilding Animal Health Care in War-Torn Afghanistan (Paperback)
David M Sherman
R1,136 Discovery Miles 11 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The very mention of Afghanistan conjures images of war, international power politics, the opium trade, and widespread corruption. Yet the untold story of Afghanistan's seemingly endless misfortune is the disruptive impact that prolonged conflict has had on ordinary rural Afghans, their culture, and the timeless relationship they share with their land and animals. In rural Afghanistan, when animals die, livelihoods are lost, families and communities suffer, and people may perish. That Sheep May Safely Graze details a determined effort, in the midst of war, to bring essential veterinary services to an agrarian society that depends day in and day out on the well-being and productivity of its animals, but which, because of decades of war and the disintegration of civil society, had no reliable access to even the most basic animal health care. The book describes how, in the face of many obstacles, a dedicated group of Afghan and expatriate veterinarians working for a small non governmental organization (NGO) in Kabul was able to create a national network of over 400 veterinary field units staffed by over 600 veterinary para professionals. These paravets were selected by their own communities and then trained and outfitted by the NGO so that nearly every district in the country that needed basic veterinary services now has reliable access to such services. Most notably, over a decade after its inception and with Afghanistan still in free fall, this private sector, district-based animal health program remains vitally active. The community-based veterinary para professionals continue to provide quality services to farmers and herders, protecting their animals from the ravages of disease and improving their livelihoods, despite the political upheavals and instability that continue to plague the country. The elements contributing to this sustainability and their application to programs for improved veterinary service delivery in developing countries beyond Afghanistan are described in the narrative.

Principios de Nutrici n de Rumiantes (Spanish, Paperback): Ph D Roque Gonzalo Ramirez Lozano Principios de Nutrici n de Rumiantes (Spanish, Paperback)
Ph D Roque Gonzalo Ramirez Lozano
R594 Discovery Miles 5 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 2 - Experiences and Regional Perspectives (Paperback): Pierre Gerber, Harold A.... Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 2 - Experiences and Regional Perspectives (Paperback)
Pierre Gerber, Harold A. Mooney, Jeroen Dijkman, Shirley Tarawali, Cees De Haan
R1,433 Discovery Miles 14 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock keeping evolved from a means of harnessing marginal resources to produce items for local consumption to a key component of global food chains. "Livestock in a Changing Landscape" offers a comprehensive examination of these important and far-reaching trends. The books are an outgrowth of a collaborative effort involving international nongovernmental organizations including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the Swiss College of Agriculture (SHL), the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), and the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment (SCOPE). "Volume 1" examines the forces shaping change in livestock production and management; the resulting impacts on landscapes, land use, and social systems; and potential policy and management responses. "Volume 2" explores needs and draws experience from region-specific contexts and detailed case studies. The case studies describe how drivers and consequences of change play out in specific geographical areas, and how public and private responses are shaped and implemented. Together, the volumes present new, sustainable approaches to the challenges created by fundamental shifts in livestock management and production, and represent an essential resource for policy makers, industry managers, and academics involved with this issue

Le Ver   Soie (French, Paperback): Armand de Quatrefages Le Ver Soie (French, Paperback)
Armand de Quatrefages
R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Herds Shot Round the World - Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900 (Paperback): Rebecca J. H. Woods The Herds Shot Round the World - Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800-1900 (Paperback)
Rebecca J. H. Woods
R1,015 Discovery Miles 10 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As Britain industrialized in the early nineteenth century, animal breeders faced the need to convert livestock into products while maintaining the distinctive character of their breeds. Thus they transformed cattle and sheep adapted to regional environments into bulky, quick-fattening beasts. Exploring the environmental and economic ramifications of imperial expansion on colonial environments and production practices, Rebecca J. H. Woods traces how global physiological and ecological diversity eroded under the technological, economic, and cultural system that grew up around the production of livestock by the British Empire. Attending to the relationship between type and place and what it means to call a particular breed of livestock ""native,"" Woods highlights the inherent tension between consumer expectations in the metropole and the ecological reality at the periphery. Based on extensive archival work in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia, this study illuminates the connections between the biological consequences and the politics of imperialism. In tracing both the national origins and imperial expansion of British breeds, Woods uncovers the processes that laid the foundation for our livestock industry today.

La Pisciculture (French, Paperback): Louis Figuier La Pisciculture (French, Paperback)
Louis Figuier
R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China - How an American Cowboy Brought the Old West to the Far East (Paperback):... Fred Barton and the Warlords' Horses of China - How an American Cowboy Brought the Old West to the Far East (Paperback)
Larry Weirather
R983 Discovery Miles 9 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Silk banners and stone dragons, dusty corrals and saddle leather-the North China plains of the warlords meets the cowboy culture of Western America in the years before World War II. Fred Barton led this extraordinary adventure and enterprise to supply horses for the feudal warlords, and only cowboys recruited from the ranches and rodeo arenas of the Western states had the skill to herd thousands of horses across Siberia, Mongolia, to China. Yet Fred Barton himself remains enigmatic...a cowboy, adventurer, promoter, who had his eyes on many prizes. Barton not only took his version of the Old West to Russia and China, but also to Hollywood at a time when the motion picture industry was constructing a myth of the Old West just as open range cowboy life was disappearing. This Montana bronc buster deliberately obscured parts of his life. Along the way, Barton became part of the network of unofficial U.S. intelligence in the Far East, bred a new type of horse, and tirelessly defended the values of the open range cowboy. His legacy lives on, affecting world events today, as told in this illustrated biography.

So Far and Yet so Close - Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia... So Far and Yet so Close - Frontier Cattle Ranching in Western Prairie Canada and the Northern Territory of Australia (Paperback)
Warren Elofson
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

So Far and Yet So Close provides a comparative study of frontier cattle ranching in two societies on opposite ends of the globe. It is also an environmental history that at the same time centres on both the natural and frontier environments. There are many points at which the western Canadian and northern Australian cattle frontiers evoke comparisons. Most obviously they came to life at about the same time: late 1870s-early 1880s. In both cases corporations were heavy investors and utilized an open range system in which tens of thousands of cattle roamed over thousands of square acres. Ranchers shared similar problems such as predators, disease, and weather, as well as markets. Ultimately, a nearly indistinguishable "country" culture developed in these geographically disparate and distant lands, which is still apparent today. Many similarities were in one way or another a reflection of frontier environmental conditions that is, conditions associated with the very "newness" of society. They included a lack of infrastructure (ie. fences), institutions (ie. police), and population (ie. consumers). However, the ranching people in these two societies had their differences too. In the end, the natural environment pushed agricultural development in these two regions along very different paths.

Lecons de Science Hippique Generale. Partie 2 (Ed.1855-1857) (French, Paperback, 1855-1857 ed.): Bon De Curnieu Lecons de Science Hippique Generale. Partie 2 (Ed.1855-1857) (French, Paperback, 1855-1857 ed.)
Bon De Curnieu
R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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