New Techniques in Sheep Production
- 1st Edition - June 11, 1987
- Editors: I. Fayez M. Marai, J.B. Owen
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 0 8 - 1 0 1 3 4 - 9
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 2 9 7 5 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 6 2 1 7 - 1
New Techniques in Sheep Production is an eight-part book that first reviews sheep production systems and scope for improvement. Subsequent chapter focuses on methods of increasing… Read more
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Request a sales quoteNew Techniques in Sheep Production is an eight-part book that first reviews sheep production systems and scope for improvement. Subsequent chapter focuses on methods of increasing fecundity. Parts III and IV describe reproduction methods and genetic improvement techniques. Other chapters discuss breed development; feeding systems; management and health control; and evaluation of techniques in sheep production. This book will be of value to the pioneer farmers, their advisers, and supporters in the associated marketing and supply organizations, as well as to students at agriculture and veterinary universities and colleges.
I Review of Current Sheep Production Systems and the Scope for Improvement
1 Wool
2 Meat
3 Milk
II Methods of Increasing Fecundity
4 Genetic Variation in Ovulation Rate in Sheep
5 Increasing Prolificacy of Ewes by Means of Gonadotrophin Therapy and Treatment with Fecundin
6 Frequent Lambing Systems
7 Advancement of Puberty in Male and Female Sheep
III Reproduction Methods
8 Embryo Transfer
9 Artificial Insemination
IV Genetic Improvement Techniques
10 Genetic Engineering, Chromosome Analysis and Sex Determination
11 Indirect Selection
12 Carcass Evaluation in Sheep Breeding Programs
V Breed Development
13 Formation of New Breeds
14 Group Breeding Schemes and Simplified Recording in Sheep Improvement
15 Improving Fecundity in Subtropical Fat-Tailed Sheep
VI Feeding systems
16 Nutrition of Housed Sheep
17 Early Weaning and Fattening of Lambs
18 Improving Feed Resources: A Key Step Towards Expanding Ruminant Production in Semiarid North Africa and West Asia
VII Management and Health Control
19 Pregnancy Diagnosis and Fetal Number Determination
20 Synchronized Breeding and Lambing
21 Increasing Productivity by Manipulating Mating Behavior
22 New Developments in Health Control
VIII Evaluation of New Techniques
23 Economic Response to Increasing Genetic Potential for Reproductive Performance
24 Systems Development of New Techniques
Index
- No. of pages: 302
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 11, 1987
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Hardback ISBN: 9780408101349
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483129754
- eBook ISBN: 9781483162171
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