Sustainable Goat Production in Adverse Environments: Volume I Welfare, Health and Breeding
This book explores the current trends and challenges of sustainable goat meat and milk production in different global contexts, providing valuable insights into this industry in adverse environments like mountain, semiarid and arid regions. It also includes contributions from international experts d...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Section I Sustainability and Socio-Economic Aspects in Goat Production
- 1 Introductory
- 2 Sustainability of Local Goat Genetic Resources in the Mediterranean Region
- 3 Socio-economic Aspects of Goat Farming in Arid Environments
- 4 Innovative use of sheep and goats by women in climate smart villages in Kenya
- Section II Reproductive Strategies and Genetic Improvement
- 5 Reproductive strategies for goat production in adverse environments
- 6 Using socio-sexual stimulations for sustainable goat productions under subtropical latitudes
- 7 Genetic improvement for goat production
- 8 Threatened goat breeds from the tropics: the impact of crossbreeding using foreign goats
- Section III Goat Nutrition and Nutritional Disorders
- 9 Murciano-Granadina Goat Nutrition Including Local Feed Resources
- 10 Synergies between goat grazing and shrub biomass in mountain areas
- 11 Goat meat production in resource constrained environments and methods to improve quality and yield
- Section VI Conservation Priorities of Goat Populations
- 25 Conservation and utilization of indigenous goat breeds in China
- 26 Genomics for the Improvement of Productivity and Robustness of South African Goat Breeds
- 27 Nuclear and Mitochondrial Markers Based Diversity and Population Structuring of Indian Goats
- 28 Analysis of Conservation Priorities of Goat Populations from Southwestern Europe Based on Autosomal Microsatellite Markers
- 12 Nutritional and Metabolic Disorders in Goats
- Section IV Health Management and Public Health
- 13 Major infectious diseases with impact in goat production in North Africa
- 14 Tropical diseases in goats
- 15 Haemoparasitism of Goats and Sheep
- 16 Understanding Mastitis in Goats (I): Etiophysiopathology Particularities.-17 Understanding Mastitis in Goats (II): Micro-biological Diagnosis and Somatic Cells Count
- 18 Paratuberculosis and Tuberculosis in Goats
- 20 Study of Microbiological Safety of Goat Milk Products by Meta-Analysis
- Section V Climate Change, Environmental and Nutritional Stressors, and Goat Welfare
- 21 Climate Change and Goat Agriculture Interactions in Mediterranean Region
- 22 Impact of Adverse Environmental Stress on Productive and Reproductive Performance in Osmanabadi Goats
- 23 Health and welfare of indigenous breeds of Dairy Goats in Greece
- 24 Heat Stress Effects on Water Metabolism of Goats in Harsh Environments