Practical Animal Breeding

Contents: Preface. 1. Declining animal genetic resources. 2. Sterility and its relation to inbreeding and cross-breeding. 3. Selective breeding. 4. Inbreeding experiments with animals. 5. Effect of Inbreeding and crossbreeding. 6. In SITU conservation of livestock and poultry. 7. Breeding strategies for organic animal production. 8. Breeding values. 9. Reproduction among animals and plants. 10. Breeding for health and welfare. 11. Modern animal breeding practices. 12. Applications of biotechnology and disease resistance. Bibliography.

"Practical Animal Breeding provides comprehensive and up to date coverage of breeding and fertility in animals. Taking a practical, problem-oriented approach to the theory and practice of animal breeding and infertility, it deals systematically with the typical approaches and problems encountered in the treatment of cattle, goats, horses, pigs and sheep in individual chapters. The basic concepts of this book imparts rudimentary knowledge for the students and research scholars." (jacket)