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Organic cattle farming is on the increase, with consumer demand for organic milk and meat growing yearly. Beginning with an overview of the aims and principles behind organic cattle production, this book presents extensive information about how to feed cattle so that the milk and meat produced meet organic standards, and provides a comprehensive summary of ruminant digestive processes and nutrition. Since the publication of the first edition, global consumers have increasingly become concerned with the sustainability of meat production. Here, Robert Blair considers the interrelationships of sustainable practices and profitability of organic herds, reviewing how to improve forage production and quality, and minimizing the need for supplementary feeding using off-farm ingredients. This new edition also covers: - Managing a recurrent shortage of organic feed ingredients, due to increased GM feed crop cultivation worldwide - Current findings on appropriate breeds and grazing systems for forage-based organic production - Diet-related health issues in organic herds and the effects of organic production on meat and milk quality. Required reading for animal science researchers, advisory personnel that service the organic milk and beef industries and students interested in organic milk and meat production, this book is also a useful resource for organic farming associations, veterinarians, and feed and food industry personnel.
Illustrated with over 1000 color images of the highest quality, Bovine Pathology: A Text and Color Atlas is a comprehensive single resource to identifying diseases in dairy cattle, feedlot cattle, and their calves. With summary text describing key features, the book correlates clinical information with pathology and differential diagnoses. The text covers naked-eye macroscopic appearance, through to microscopic pathology, and the immunohistochemistry of infectious agents and tumor markers. Structured by major organ system, the disease entries follow a consistent format and clarity of display. This, combined with an integrated E-book, handy fact sheets, summary boxes and key points, helps aid understanding. Key features include: - Over 1000 superb color images to illustrate the pathologies - A thorough review of mainly western hemisphere diseases of cattle covering macroscopic appearance, microscopic appearance, and immunohistochemistry - Synoptic layout, fact sheets, summary boxes, succinct legends and key bullet points supports its use as a field guide or revision aid - Organised by major organ system which ensures that vital facts can be found quickly - A unique chapter covering calf-hood diseases Serving as an essential reference work for veterinary pathologists who perform bovine necropsies, veterinary residents and students, the book is also practical enough for bovine practitioners who need to investigate sudden death losses of cattle on the farm.
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Completely updated and revised, and synthesizing the recent explosion in animal welfare literature, the sixth edition of this best-selling textbook continues to provide a thorough overview of behaviour and welfare of companion and farm animals, including fish. The introductory section has been completely revised, with all following chapters updated, redesigned and improved to reflect our changing understanding. This edition includes: - New and revised chapters on climate change and sustainability, ethics, and philosophy to ensure that the book provides the latest information in a changing world; - New information on human interactions with other animal species, big data, modern technologies, brain function, emotions and behaviour; - Solutions and advice for common abnormal behaviours. Written by a world-leading expert and key opinion leader in animal behaviour and welfare, this text provides a highly accessible guide to the subject. It is an essential foundation for any veterinary, animal science, animal behaviour or welfare-focused undergraduate or graduate course.
In very, very old times, there was an island, lush and green, in the middle of blue sea. In this island, all the animals lived happily together. One day, black-winged bird carried the bad news from far away. People made animals captive and put them in cages. People are also looking for more animals to catch. That’s why they are heading to the island. Heaven Island, is a friendship story about animals trying to make peace with people for a better future. **** The Reading Elephant series was designed to make first-time readers love books and reading. The Reading Elephant series has been split into levels which children will be able to read easily as they start their own reading experiences and will join young readers on their adventure in discovering brand new worlds. The Series’ Features: Easy to read, large writings. Unique narration that supports language teaching Multiple pictures that accompany the stories Themes that feed the emotion and thought universe Language used towards conceptual development Image language that develops visual interpretation skill Stories that reinforce reading skills Rich vocabulary Supporting other learning areas
Fethiye Çetin was unaware for years that her grandmother was one of the children who survived the death marches, who were once Armenian and Christian but had to live the rest of their lives as Turkish and Muslim. Heranush, alias Seher, confided the devastating memories of her childhood to her granddaughter after over 60 years of silence. Çetin was able to contact her grandmother's relatives and fill the gaps in her story only after her death.With its crystal clear narration, this heartbreaking memoir is Çetin's homage to the memory of her grandmother and others who led hidden lives. But it is also a move away from barren disputes over terminology and statistics. "Such arguments," Çetin says, "hide the lives and deaths of individuals and do nothing to encourage people to listen."
Fethiye Çetin's groundbreaking memoir My Grandmother provided an alternative track for public debate on the "Armenian issue", steering clear of deadended rhetorical contentions, and relating an irrefutable personal story of grief and silence.The book's powerful reach led many other "grandchildren" to contact Çetin and share their own memories. The Grandchildren is a collection of intimate, moving interviews conducted with 25 such grandchildren across Turkey, tracing the open wounds of the human catastrophe of 1915. Their stories attest to the claim of the past over our present and future, and provide minor histories that no official discourse is able to account for.
Hapless men yearn after unreachable women. Boys teeter on the edge of adolescence and taste the bitterness of disillusionment. A multitude of characters gamble with their fates in casinos. Voyager and Other Fictions: The Collected Stories of Jose Dalisay explores the depths of the human psyche, exposing the follies and foibles of Filipinos going about their daily lives. This definitive compilation of forty-three stories from a master storyteller includes the classic stories “Penmanship,” and “Oldtimer,” and the title story “Voyager,” which show the art and craft of one of the country’s most revered writers of short fiction.
Peace to the Earths and The Gods This book will be for the reflective sol… The sol that wanders throughout the skies of this beautiful planet looking for answers… I come bearing apocalyptic news. Please understand that this book will provide the world clarity on how we are to move forward as a whole. It gets more and more difficult to utilize technology at this point… I seem to keep forgetting how to do small things since the eclipse… Since remembering Malik… My soulmate. Our love transcends time and space- how can that be? How can I explain that I am irrevocably in love with a man I have only met once before?
The book contains detailed information about the infectious diseases of animals with their identification and treatments finding adequate space in the book. The book covers the following: Viral diseases: o Foot and mouth disease o Classical swine fever o Rabies o Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) o Goat pox o Sheep pox o Blue Tongue o Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis o Bovine ephemeral fever o Canine Parvovirus Infections. Bacterial diseases: o Black Quarter o Tuberculosis o Brucellosis o Glanders o Haemorrhagic Depticaemia o Leptospirosis o Strangles o Anthrax o Paratuberculosis
"Eugenia Dovedale's father had been High Steward to the Marquis of Buckbury and after her father's unexpected death, Eugenia had to leave 'Paragon' the family's beautiful and much loved cottage on the estate. She and her mother now lived uncomfortably with her Great-aunt Cloris in London as they could not afford anywhere else. Mrs Dovedale maintained strong hopes of her daughter making a good marriage and improving their position. She was thrilled when the Marquis returned from France and began to show considerable interest in Eugenia.However Eugenia was determined only to marry for love and passion and she dreamed of being swept off her feet. She resisted the overtures of the Marquis and then a Russian painter called Gregor Brodosky came to paint her great-aunt and Eugenia fell for his obviously charms and goodlooks.Mrs Dovedale suffered a nasty coach accident and the Marquis invited her and Eugenia to stay at Buckbury Abbey to recover. The Marquis's admiration of Eugenia intensified and her mother more than ever pushed her towards the Marquis, but Eugenia's heart longed for Gregor. Her life became more and more distraught and confusing particularly when Gregor arrived at Buckbury to paint Eugenia'a portrait. How she eventually found happiness at 'Paragon' and realised her dreams after many twists and turns is told in this intriguing and spellbinding story."
Do you love the dark heart of story-telling? Do you love magical tales with an edge? In this collection of short stories you'll meet the Gambling Man and wonder why your soul feels as though its been yanked from its moorings......the Countess and the Mechanic will make you look again at things spectral that you thought you already knew......and then there's the Marchese, once a friend of the infamous Cesare Borgia and still going strong in the twenty-first Century.Beasts Within continues Clive's development of tales rooted in the darkly fantastic hearts of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson, introducing new characters and new twists to themes that Clive has written successfully about for many years now.
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Dena Moes, her husband, and their preteen daughters shouldered backpacks and walked away from their American life to criss-cross India and Nepal for eight months. Their journey led them to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the tree where the Buddha sat, and Amma the Divine Mother. From the banks of the Ganges to the Himalayan roof of the world, this enthralling memoir is an unforgettable odyssey, a moving meditation on motherhood and marriage, and a spiritual quest, written with humor and honesty—and filled with love and awe.
From the Fence until Lunchtime can be read as a stand-alone story but it is also the sequel to DIPSORA (ISBN 9781871506747). All the central family characters are reintroduced as Kostas returns from St Petersburg to live again at Lakelands with Valeriya, the Russian agent and love of his life who is also one of the narrators of this story. A luxurious holiday cruise embroils the Nashes in a violent death leading to the Italian Mafia’s involvement in the subsequent cover-up of the crime and concomitant exposure of British political sleaze. The other narrator, Maxine, is pursuing a new career in the City with the Nash family business where she begins a passionate affair with her boss, who is also her first cousin. Constricted by the need for secrecy and almost completely unsupported, Maxine endures sacrifice and heartbreak as the yoke of dynastic duty is laid on rich, handsome George who continues to have it all, up to and beyond the bittersweet ending.
