Farm Animal Management: Principles and Practices

Contents: Preface. 1. An Introduction to Animal Husbandry. 2. General Principles of Livestock Management. 3. Breeds of Livestock. 4. Fodder Production and Grassland Management. 5. Livestock Housing and Sanitation. 6. Dairy Bovine Production. 7. Goat Production. 8. Sheep Production. 9. Swine Production. 10. Laboratory Animals. 11. Equines. 12. Camel Production. 13. Avian Production. 14. Climatology and Animal Production. 15. Organic Livestock Farming. Livestock rearing is an integral part of socio-economic framework of India since time immemorial. Livestock sub-sector being a vital component of agriculture sector, plays a multidimensional role and acts as a tool in achieving nutritional security, employment generation and socio-economic development of rural sector, particularly among the landless, small, marginal farmers and women. India possesses huge livestock population of varying production potentials, distributed across different agro-ecological zones under different operational and livestock holding size. Hence, it requires different package of practices for their management. Further, factors like drivers of development change and climate change pose many challenges to this sector. Farm animal management encompasses integrated and precise application of basic scientific principles of breeding, feeding, heeding and weeding in general as well as in times of specific need. Therefore, an attempt has been made in this book to cover all these basic and applied aspects of livestock management in detail. In the perspective of reorganization of the syllabus of veterinary science and animal husbandry programme. This book is appropriately divided into fifteen chapters covering almost each and every aspect of livestock production management.