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Improving goat production in the tropics
Historical background -- Current status -- The role of goats in developing countries -- The environmental question -- Research and development -- The potential role of goats in development programmes -- The aim of this book -- Common problems of goats in the tropics -- Africa -- Asia -- Central and South America -- Minor systems -- Which system is closest to the one in which you work? -- Assessing goat-production problems -- Low-cost methods of assessing production problems -- Higher-cost methods of assessing production problems.
On-farm trials of improvements -- Basic nutrition -- The feeding habits of goats -- The feeds available to goats, and their characteristics -- The composition of feeds -- Methods of feed analysis -- Digestion in the adult goat -- Manipulation of digestion in the rumen and small intestine -- Digestion in the kid -- Digestibility -- Feed in-take -- The feed requirements of goats -- Improved nutrition -- Improving feed supply: grazing management -- Improving feed supply: forage development -- Feed conservation.
Improving the quality of feed and quantity eaten -- Feeding special goats -- Case studies -- Goat health -- Assessing health and disease: the clinical examination -- Common disease problems -- Common diseases of goats -- Other goat diseases -- Treating and investigating diseases -- The organisation of goat health care -- Management of reproduction -- Reproduction in the goat -- Mating management -- Reproductive problems -- Pregnancy -- Measures of reproductive efficiency -- Breeds and breeds improvement -- Principles of breed improvement -- Tropical goat breeds.
Practical breed improvement for individual farmers -- Practical methods of breed improvement for groups and governments -- Management of large goat farms -- Setting up a goat farm -- Annual planning -- Daily management -- Processing and marketing goat products -- Milk -- Meat and carcass products -- Skins -- Mohair and cashmere -- Manure -- Marketing goats and goat products -- Goat-improvement programmes -- Goat-improvement strategies -- Participatory planning -- Writing a plan -- Methods of implementation -- The role and management of credit -- Evaluation of goat-improvement programmes.
Christie Peacock ; illustrated by Mandefro Haile-Giorgis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.