Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Agriculture - Animal Husbandry

Fill the year ahead with weekly activities from around and about the hive, including art projects, recipes, experiments, garden activities, and more

If you keep bees or are interested in keeping bees, Beekeeper's Lab is the book for you. Filled with 52 beekeeping and hive-inspired projects to keep you involved with your bees and hive all year long. The tutorials are brief, accomplishable, and rewarding. Try a new technique each week with how-tos and sidebars with tips that are perfect for including the whole family.wo decades Beekeeping a fun and educational...

This book provides information on basic principles of animal nutrition for daily husbandry--related practices, research, and teaching. It describes relationships between nutrients and feedstuffs as well as techniques of nutrient supplies to animals through dietary manipulation. Topics include digestive tracts of ruminant and nonruminant animals; absorption and metabolism of carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, energy, vitamins, and minerals; nutritional requirements for maintenance, growth, reproduction, egg production, milk production, and work production; nutritional diseases in animals; and...

Advances in Sheep Welfare examines the recent advances made in sheep welfare assessment, handling and management, providing state-of-the-art coverage of the welfare needs of one of the world's most widely farmed animals.

The book begins with an introduction to sheep welfare in Part One, with chapters covering biology and natural behavior, sheep production systems, and consumer and societal expectations for sheep products. Part Two goes on to highlight new advances in sheep welfare assessment, before Part Three outlines a wide range of solutions to sheep welfare challenges....

Advances in Pig Welfare analyzes current topical issues in the key areas of pig welfare assessment and improvement. With coverage of both recent developments and reviews of historical welfare issues, the volume provides a comprehensive survey of the field.

The book is divided into two sections. Part One opens with an overview of main welfare challenges in commercial pig production systems and then reviews pig welfare hot spots from birth to slaughter. Part Two highlights emerging topics in pig welfare, such as pain and health assessment, early socialization and environmental...