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The History and Biology of Livestock Breeding - With Information on Heredity, Reproduction, Selection and Many Other Aspects of Animal Breeding
Author: F. R. Marshall
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 147335403X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This antique book comprises a comprehensive treatise on the breeding of livestock, with information on heredity, reproduction, selection, and many other important aspects of animal breeding. This text covers a variety of different animals commonly kept on a farm, including sheep, horses, cattle, swine and more. Written in clear, concise language and complete with handy tips, detailed illustrations, helpful tables, and much more besides, this is a text that will be of much appeal to farmers and anyone else interested in the breeding of livestock. The chapters of this book include: 'The Arabian Horse', 'French Horse-Breeding', 'The Thoroughbred', 'British Stock', 'Robert Bakewell', 'Influence of Bakewell's Work', 'Dates of Founding of the Breeds', 'European Stocks in America', 'The American Trotter', 'Draft Horses from Europe', 'Coach Horses', etcetera. We are proud to be republishing this volume now complete with a new introduction on farming.
Robert Bakewell and the Longhorn Breed of Cattle
Author: Pat Stanley
Publisher: Farming Press Limited
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780852363058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Deals with a remarkable chapter in agricultural history. Bakewell was the man who - against considerable opposition - pioneered line breeding and progeny testing techniques for the improvement of livestock. This enabled the growing human populations of the 19th century to be fed.
Art and Science in Breeding
Author: Margaret Derry
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-01-21
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1442698241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chickens are now the most scientifically engineered of livestock. How have the methods used by geneticists differed from those employed by domestic breeders over time? Art and Science in Breeding details the relationship between farm practices and agricultural genetics in poultry breeding from 1850 to 1960. Margaret E. Derry traces the history and organization of chicken breeding in North America, from craft approaches and breeding as an ‘art,’ to the conflicts that had emerged between traditional and scientific methods by the 1940s. Derry assesses links between the 'scientific' revolution of chicken farming and the development of corporate breeding as a modern, international industry. Using poultry as a case study for the wider narrative of agricultural genetics, Art and Science in Breeding adds considerable knowledge to a rapidly growing field of inquiry.
Nature Conservation in Southern Africa
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-26
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9004385118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nature Conservation in Southern Africa. Morality and Marginality: Towards Sentient Conservation? proposes ways to study linkages between the marginality, subjectivity and agency of both human and animals, promoting a new approach to conservation referred to as ‘sentient conservation’.
Made to Order
Author: Margaret E. Derry
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2022-03-01
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1487541635
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Animal breeding has been complicated by persisting factors across species, cultures, geography, and time. In Made to Order, Margaret E. Derry explains these factors and other breeding concerns in relation to both animals and society in North America and Europe over the past three centuries. Made to Order addresses how breeding methodology evolved, what characterized the aims of breeding, and the way structures were put in place to regulate the occupation. Illustrated by case studies on important farm animals and companion species, the book presents a synthetic overview of livestock breeding as a whole. It gives considerable emphasis to genetics and animal breeding in the post-1960 period, the relationship between environmental and improvement breeding, and regulation of breeding as seen through pedigrees. In doing so, Made to Order shows how studying the ancient human practice of animal breeding can illuminate the ways in which human thinking, theorizing, and evolving characterize our interactions with all-natural processes.
THE SECOND REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE WORLD’s ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Published: 2018-06-06
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 9251088209
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Animal genetic resource diversity underpins the supply livestock products and services across a wide range of production environments. It promotes resilience and serves as a basis for adapting livestock management to changing conditions. It is vital to livelihoods of many of the world’s poor people. It can contribute to the delivery of ecosystem services such as landscape management and the maintenance of wildlife habitats. However, it is often undervalued, underused and under threat. This report updates the global assessment provided in the first report on The State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, published in 2007. It focuses particularly on changes that have occurred during the period since the first report was published. It serves as a basis for a review, and potential update, of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources, which since 2007 has provided an agreed international framework for the management of livestock biodiversity. Drawing on 129 country reports, it presents an analysis of the state of livestock diversity, the influence of livestock-sector trends on the management of animal genetic resources, the state of capacity to manage animal genetic resources, including legal and policy frameworks, and the state of the art in tools and methods for characterization, valuation, use, development and conservation.
An Introduction to Breeding Farm Animals
Author: Laurence Merriam Winters
Publisher:
Published: 1942
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Masterminding Nature
Author: Margaret Derry
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015-03-27
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1442619317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Masterminding Nature, Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s. A clear and concise introduction to the science and practice of artificial selection, Derry’s book puts the history of breeding in its scientific, commercial, and social context. Masterminding Nature explains why animal breeders continued to use eighteenth-century techniques well into the twentieth century, why the chicken industry was the first to use genetics in its breeding programs, and why it was the dairy cattle industry that embraced quantitative genetics and artificial insemination in the 1970s, as well as answering many other questions. Following the story right up to the present, the book concludes with an insightful analysis of today’s complex relationships between biology, industry, and ethics.
Matthew and George Culley
Author: Matthew Culley
Publisher: British Academy
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780197262757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The travel journals and letters of Matthew and George Culley give a fresh and practical picture of agriculture and related conditions in England and Scotland in the late eighteenth century, as seen by two successful farmers who pioneered and spread improved methods and livestock breeds in Northumberland and beyond. These down-to-earth journals are worthy to stand alongside such famous contemporary works as Arthur Young's Tours and John Byng's Diaries.
