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        Nutrition of Goats
        Farm & working animals
        December 1997

        Nutrition of Goats

        by Edited by AFRC Technical Committtee

        This report is a comprehensive review of published information on the body composition and digestive physiology of temperate zone goats, the composition of their products, meat, milk and fibre, their voluntary feed intake, and their associated energy, protein, mineral and vitamin requirements. The systematic approach is similar to that of earlier reviews of ruminant nutrient requirements published by the Agricultural Research Council in 1980 and 1984, which are factorial in nature. In particular the energy and protein requirements are expressed in terms of Metabolisable Energy (ARC 1980, AFRC 1990) and Metabolisable Protein (AFRC1992), using the models for cattle and sheep as appropriate. The requirements for calcium and phosphorus have been calculated utilising the factors specified in a separate AFRC report published in 1991. The report also identifies areas where there is a lack of research data specific to goats, recourse having to be made to published data for sheep (particularly for voluntary feed intake and the nutrient requirements of pregnancy) or cattle, as most appropriate. The review has 49 tables covering all aspects of the subject, and is fully referenced. It represents an authoritative review for advanced students, research workers and advisors in animal nutrition.

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        Feeding in Domestic Vertebrates
        Farm & working animals
        September 2006

        Feeding in Domestic Vertebrates

        From Structure to Behaviour

        by Edited by Vincent Bels

        Domestication of vertebrates is based on the understanding of the needs of animals in their natural environment. Thus the success of this domestication throughout human history is largely dependant of the knowledge of the animal feeding behaviour. The aim of this volume is to provide advanced students and researchers with a review of current knowledge of feeding in domestic mammals and birds. The book also presents chapters on feeding behaviour in particular species; the scope is wide, covering not only ruminants, poultry and pigs, but also more specifically horses, rabbits and ostrich. Contributors include leading research workers from Europe, USA, Australia and South Africa.

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        Dogs in the Leisure Experience
        Dogs as pets
        November 2014

        Dogs in the Leisure Experience

        by Neil Carr

        This book explores the social and cultural constructions and debates of what are dogs and what is leisure. It looks at how working dogs play a significant role in leisure experiences such as ensuring the safety of air transport, and considers the differing roles and changing acceptance of dogs’ involvement in sport. Within the setting of the animal welfare and sentience debates, it examines the leisure needs of dogs and their owners. Providing an original contribution to our understanding of dogs as both participants and objects in the leisure experience, this book is a useful resource for researchers in leisure, hospitality and tourism.

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        Pre and Probiotics for Poultry Gut Health
        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        September 2023

        Pre and Probiotics for Poultry Gut Health

        by Helen Masey O'Neill, Emily Burton, Dawn Scholey

        Poultry are the most widely used animal protein source in the world: billions of meat birds are produced globally each year, using 360 million tonnes of feed. Within Europe, over 30,000 companies involved in the production of poultry create an annual turnover of €107 billion. However, maintaining the sustainability of the industry as it moves towards antibiotic-free production is one of the key challenges. Starting with an overview of antibiotics as growth promoters and the challenges faced as the industry moves away from their use, this book then thoroughly considers the potential of pre and probiotic additives in poultry gut health. The book: - Includes thorough definitions of additives in the pre and probiotic space and examples of how they work; - Addresses how to test pre and probiotics and other similar additives, and how they interact with other products, with learning from both poultry and allied sectors; - Combines authors from both academic and industry backgrounds on all chapters, to ensure coverage is balanced, robust and commercially relevant. Based on the renowned World Poultry Science Association UK Branch Poultry Science Symposium 2022, this book provides a thorough and valuable contribution to the field for all involved with the nutrition and production of poultry.

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        Doggy people
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Doggy people

        The Victorians who made the modern dog

        by Michael Worboys

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        Doggy people
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Doggy people

        The Victorians who made the modern dog

        by Michael Worboys

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        Doggy people
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Doggy people

        The Victorians who made the modern dog

        by Michael Worboys

        We know that there were dogs in Victorian Britain, but who were the 'Doggie People' who kept them, bred them, showed them, worked with them and cared for them? Chapter by chapter, this book reveals the varied and often eccentric lives of the Victorians who helped define dogs as we know them today. The cast runs from the very pinnacle of society, Queen Victoria, to near the bottom with Jemmy Shaw, a publican, boxer, promoter of dog-fights and rat-killing. The others include an artist, aristocrats, authors, a clergymen, doctors, a dog-dealer, a feminist, journalists, landowners, millionaires, philanthropists, politicians, scientists, a stockbrokers, veterinarians, and a showman - none other their Charles Cruft. Looking at the invention and meaning of new breeds such as poodles, collies, Jack Russells, and borzois amongst others, we see how the Victorians thought about pets, sports, dog shows and animal rights.

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        Dog politics
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2024

        Dog politics

        Species stories and the animal sciences

        by Mariam Motamedi Fraser

        Do dogs belong with humans? Scientific accounts of dogs' 'species story,' in which contemporary dog-human relations are naturalised with reference to dogs' evolutionary becoming, suggest that they do. Dog politics dissects this story. This book offers a rich empirical analysis and critique of the development and consolidation of dogs' species story in science, asking what evidence exists to support it, and what practical consequences, for dogs, follow from it. It explores how this story is woven into broader scientific shifts in understandings of species, animals, and animal behaviours, and how such shifts were informed by and informed transformative political events, including slavery and colonialism, the Second World War and its aftermath, and the emergence of anti-racist movements in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book pays particular attention to how species-thinking bears on 'race,' racism, and individuals.

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      • A Guide to Wild Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar
        The natural world, country life & pets
        October 2013

        A Guide to Wild Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar

        by Clive Finlayson, Geraldine Finlayson, Stewart Finlayson

        A Guide to Wild Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar is a unique book that brings together the history of exploration of the 'wild' country that is the Iberian                Peninsular in the 19th Century.                             The authors retrace the footsteps taken by four British naturalists based in Gibraltar and Jerez: Abel Chapman, a vitner from Sunderland, among whose               achievements was the saving from extinction of the Spanish ibex and large involvement in the establishment of Africa's first game reserve, now the Kruger National Park; Walter Buck, a native of Jerez who became British Vice-Consul in that city, and together with Chapman described the countryside, people and wildlife of Spain in two classic books Wild Spain (1893) and Unexplored Spain (1910); Leonard Howard Loyd Irby, an army officer and keen ornithologist who devoted his time to the study of birds in southern Iberia aftern his arrival in Gibraltar in 1868 and published his findings in his Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar (1875);and William Willoughby Cole Verner, also a military man, who was a keen naturalist and explorer and wrote in 1909 My Life among the Wild Birds in Spain on his retirement in Algeciras.                            Quoting liberally from the works of these intrepid naturalists and embellishing the book with their own exquisite photographs, the Finlayson family has produced an evocative image of a landmass so diverse that their predecessors, Chapman and Buck, recognised that "included within its boundaries are nearly all the physical conditions of Europe and northern Africa".                            The book is, however, not only a fascinating travelogue but also a plea for conservation as some of wild Iberia's treasures are now under serious threat. The grand Egyptian vulture,for example, the authors maintain, may well be extinct in Andalucía in a decade's time. Happily there is a counter-balance with the recovery of some species like the glossy ibis and the purple gallinule.                             A Guide to Wild Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar is a multi-facetted, cleverly conceived book that is directed at anyone who has an interest in the natural history of the three territories that make up the Iberian Peninisular. It tells the reader where to go to find unique species or natural phenomena like the migration of birds of prey. In substance, it is visually stunning 21st Century snapshot of one of Europe's ecologically richest lands.                             Author's Note: Clive Finlayson is a Gibraltar-born biologist and his work has included research into the ecology of birds and that of the Neanderthals. His wife,                 Geraldine, was also born in Gibraltar and is a biogeographer. She has worked on many field projects including inside the Doñana National Park. Their son, Stewart, is a keen naturalist and is reading for a PhD in biology. He is intimately familiar with the wildlife of Iberia and also heads the Gibraltar Museum Caving Unit.

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      • al-Andalus
        The natural world, country life & pets
        November 2007

        al-Andalus

        How nature has shaped history

        by Clive Finlayson

        Clive Finlayson is also author of al-Andalus, an equally evocative, wonderfully illustrated, personal tribute to the Iberian Peninsular which he modestly sums up as "the story of olives, tuna, cork forests, vultures, wolves and humans". This "story" embraces the multi-lateral disciplines of history, geography and ecology. The historical element spans some five million years, from the opening of the Strait of Gibraltar to the present day; its geographical breadth takes in the old territory of al-Andalus, from Tarifa and Gibraltar in the south to the Cantabrian Mountains and the Pyrenees in the north; and its ecological scope extends from the coastal marshes of Doñana to the peaks of the Sierra Nevada. However, this is also the story of the countless individuals who had an impact on the land and its surrounding waters - from the earliest fishermen through the Romans to the tuna industry controllers of today - and it vividly relates the medieval struggle between Islam and Christianity and the role of the landscape in that struggle. From a loving appreciation of the richness of the Peninsular's wildlife to an intriguing account of the last Neanderthal, this book will strike a warm chord of interest in all Hispanaphiles. But beyond the visual luxury and the detective work there emerges a strong intent as fellow academic, José Carrión, Professor of Evolutionary Botany at the University of Murcia, notes, with the following subtle analogy: "The main purpose of the book is to make an argument for a compelling association between biodiversity and human past and future. The emphasis is on making readable a modern approach to historical ecology; how to cook chance and constraint, and make the meal enjoyable. Ultimately this book is about the thin, though not straight, line that exists between the fate of humans and the fates of other living beings. The final taste is that something crucial is at stake". Author's Note: Clive Finlayson is a Gibraltar-born biologist and his work has included research into the ecology of birds and that of the Neanderthals. He has been Director of the Gibraltar Musuem since 1991 and is also the territory's Director of Heritage.

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      • Emotions in dogs: Schooling your eye
        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        November 2020

        Emotions in dogs: Schooling your eye

        by Katja Krauß & Gabi Maue

        This unique book focuses on schooling your eye for the expressions of dogs rather than on an academic description of their behaviour. On more than 1500 photos of different dogs, you will learn to see: How does an uncertain, fearful, curious, or aggressive dog look like? How do the expressions differ with long- and short haired dogs or with pricked and hanging ears? How to interpret these expressions in a certain situation?After analysing the dogs „communicating“ body parts and their signals, a detailed chapter on the single basic emotions provides a full overall picture on how to „read“ dogs.

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      • Butterflies in My Garden
        Gardening
        January 2019

        Butterflies in My Garden

        Gardening with butterfly-friendly plants

        by Kremer, Bruno P.

        Many species of butterflies are disappearing due to their loss of natural habitat. What would make more sense than to create a garden for butterflies? Simply grow the plants the caterpillars like to eat, and plants that adult butterflies feed on. This book portrays 40 butterfly species that can be supported efficiently in the garden, and furthermore introduces 80 butterfly-friendly plants. With a wide variety of plants and the additional arrangement of suitable garden structures your garden can make an important contribution to butterfly conservation.

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      • A Masterclass in needle felting dogs
        Handicrafts, decorative arts & crafts
        September 2020

        A Masterclass in needle felting dogs

        Methods and techniques to take your needle felting to the next level

        by Cindy-Lou Thompson

        The art of needle felting dogs can produce amazingly hyper-realistic – almost taxidermic – results, and with a little know-how, some needles and wool, and a few inexpensive accessories, you, too, can needle felt like a professional. If you have ever wanted to improve your needle felting and take it to a whole new level to create lifelike dogs, this book, by world class needle felting master Cindy-Lou Thompson of Chicktin Creations, will show you how. Covering four different breeds of dog (Dachshund, Chihuahua, Yorkshire Terrier and Poodle), with step-by-step instructions and photos, Cindy takes you through the processes of creating different body shapes, proportions, armatures, coats, and blending, as well as realistic accessories such as eyes, noses, mouths, ears, and nails. Learn how to achieve a professional finish with different textured coats, clipping and shaping, and finishing off, using a variety of mediums and methods, some of which Cindy has designed and developed herself, and never revealed ... until now.

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      • Life skills for puppies
        The natural world, country life & pets
        June 2012

        Life skills for puppies

        Laying the foundation for a loving, lasting relationship

        by Helen Zulch, Daniel Mills, Peter Baumber

        An extremely successful book for Hubble & Hattie! Every year millions of puppies enter homes, carrying their new family’s expectation of a wonderful relationship. Sadly, many are rehomed or lose their lives as the result of behaviours which their owners find difficult to live with. Helping a puppy to grow into a resilient dog, capable of coping with the challenges of daily living, whilst retaining a good quality of life and exhibiting behaviours acceptable within society, is not an easy task. 'Life Skills for Puppies' aims to simplify puppy education by presenting the skills that are required to achieve these goals within the context of everyday life. By enabling owners to incorporate teaching into each interaction they enjoy with their puppy, it not only becomes easier for them, but also enables the puppy to practice appropriate behaviour choices within day-to-day situations. By teaching skills such as self-control, respect for rules, and clear communication, owners can spend less time directing their dog, and more time enjoying their relationship with him, as he takes more control for his own good behaviour. Beautiful, specially-taken photographs illustrate the points made, and each chapter includes a worksheet to help owners chart their puppy's progress.

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      • Forest School Wild Play
        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

        Forest School Wild Play

        Outdoor Fun with Earth, Air, Fire & Water

        by Jane Worroll & Peter Houghton

        This is the third book in the brilliant Worroll & Houghton Forest School series, packed full of new games and activities. The theme is the four elements.

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      • Take the Lead
        Dogs as pets
        May 2020

        Take the Lead

        How to Care for Your Dog – A Fun & Practical Guide

        by Elena Browne

        A fun and practical guide to caring for dogs and puppies. From exercise and play to comfort and care this book is an ideal guide for children who already have a dog, would like a dog or love learning about dogs.

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      • The Pavlov Project
        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure

        The Pavlov Project

        The journey of a police dog trainer

        by Prins, Simon

        When the author joined a canine unit of the Dutch police in the early 1990s, dog training was based mostly on punishment, submission and coercion, as almost everywhere at that time. When he was asked to lead a newly founded special task force unit for covert operations, where dogs should be sent over large distances and out of the handler’s sight to spy out areas or buildings with cameras or to place objects, it quickly became clear that this kind of training would not be possible with traditional training methods. This was the start of the “Pavlov Project” – the introduction of operant conditioning principles into the world of police dog training. In the years to follow, Simon Prins travelled the globe to learn from the best animal trainers and was strongly influenced by animal training legend Bob Bailey who should become his mentor and friend. In this book, he writes about his personal journey into the fascinating world of the science on behaviour, learning and training and invites the reader to take part in the experiences he made, the difficulties he encountered and the striking success in the end. From the background of his own learning process, he describes the principles of classical and operant conditioning and learning by positive reinforcement in a clear and understandable way. Learn why operant conditioning is far more than “throwing cookies”, why reinforcement schedules are important, why you need to collect data in training, how motivation and mindset of both dog and trainer will influence the outcome and what exceptional results can be achieved by good training that is based on science and a trusting relationship in equal parts.

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      • Between Light and Storm
        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        September 2020

        Between Light and Storm

        How We Live With Other Species

        by Esther Woolfson

        A landmark new book about the fraught relationship between humans and animals that takes us from Genesis to climate change.   Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers pre-historic human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions of the soul and conscience in relation to the animal kingdom, and the consequences of our belief in human superiority. She explores our representation of animals in art, our consumption of them for food, our experiments on them for science, and our willingness to slaughter them for sport and fashion, as well as examining concepts of love and ownership.   Drawing on philosophy and theology, art and history, as well as her own experience of living with animals and coming to know, love and respect them as individuals, Woolfson examines some of the most complex ethical issues surrounding our treatment of animals and argues passionately and persuasively for a more humble, more humane, relationship with the creatures who share our world.

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