Animal Science & Industry

Merle Cunningham, Duane Acker, Mickey LaTour (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

800 Seiten

2024 | 8th edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-13-502527-7 (ISBN)

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Animal Science and Industry, Eight Edition, remains an outstanding, easy-to-read introduction to the principles of animal science as well as the industry of animal production and management. It provides comprehensive coverage vital to the proper care and well-being of animals, including animal nutrition and digestion, environment, health, behavior, reproduction, lactation, and genetics/breeding. Also included are all aspects of specific production and management practices–as well as concepts in the marketing of animals and the processing of their products–as they relate to beef, dairy, horse, poultry, sheep, swine, and aquaculture industries.

1. Animal Agriculture.

2. The Animal Industry.

3. Nutrients and Their Sources.

4. The Digestive and Metabolic Systems.

5. Nutrition of Non-ruminants.

6. Nutrition of Ruminants.

7. Nutrition of Horses and Ponies.

8. Evaluation of Feeder Animals.

9. Animal Growth and Carcass Composition.

10. The Feeding Enterprise.

11. Animal Environment and Adaptation.

12. Animal Health.

13. Animal Behavior.

14. Physiology of Reproduction.

15. Management Regime and Reproductive Efficiency.

16. Lactation.

17. Genetics.

18. Heritability and Genetic Improvement.

19. Evaluation of Breeding Animals.

20. Mating Systems.

21. Breeds.

22. Marketing Meat Animals.

23. Evaluating Slaughter Animals.

24. Live Animal Market Classes and Grades.

25. Processing Meat Animals.

26. Meat as a Food.

27. Wool and Mohair.

28. The Business of Producing Pork.

29. The Cow Herd and Ewe Flock.

30. The Business of Dairying.

31. Milk Handling and Marketing.

32. Horses and Ponies.

33. The Business of Producing Eggs.

34. The Egg as a Product.

35. The Business of Commercial Poultry Meat Production.

36. Aquaculture.

37. Companion Animals.

Appendix A: Grade Photos.

Appendix B: Illustration of Animal Parts and Terms.

Glossary.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.3.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 276 mm
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-13-502527-3 / 0135025273
ISBN-13	978-0-13-502527-7 / 9780135025277
Zustand	Neuware