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  • Beak Trimming Handbook for Egg Producers

    Best Practice for Minimising Cannibalism in Poultry

    Edited by Phil Glatz, Michael Bourke ...
    The Beak Trimming Handbook for Egg Producers is a straightforward, practical guide to beak trimming of egg-laying hens to minimise cannibalism. It provides comprehensive information on why birds peck and how pecking can lead to problems like cannibalism; the methods available to beak trim birds; why a particular method should be chosen; and at what age birds may be trimmed. The book addresses ... Read more

    $22.69 USD

  • The Welfare of Farmed Ratites

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This volume reviews, for the first time, the broad range of issues that affect the welfare of commercially farmed ratites. Although ratites incorporate several families of flightless birds this book focuses on the most commonly farmed ratites, the ostrich, emu and rhea. The readers are taken on a journey through all sectors of the industry, which include breeding, incubation, hatching, brooding, ... Read more

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    Understanding Dairy Cow Behaviour to Improve Their Welfare on Asian Farms

    The aim of this manual is to improve the welfare of dairy cattle in tropical developing countries, and by doing so, optimise cow and herd performance. It gives the stockmen and farmers directly concerned with the cattle a better understanding of animal behaviour and the ways cattle communicate their comfort or distress. The book discusses normal cattle behaviour and shows how domestication and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Snakes Of The World

    From Pythons to Black Mamba

    Series series Awesome Kids Educational Books
    Most children are fascinated with exploration. This can take the form of looking at a world atlas, or simply looking underneath a bush to see what kinds of bugs they can find. You can combine the best of both with a snakes of the world picture book. The child can take a magical adventure around the world while seeing all the different snakes that are on display. This picture book can also be a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Road To Castle Hill

    A new life running a high country sheep station in New Zealand. Christine Fernyhough is well known as a leading Auckland philanthropist, having set up Books in Homes and then the Gifted Kids Programme for high achieving children in low decile schools. In 2003 she was a recent widow when she spied an advertisement for the sale of the legendary Castle Hill Station, near Porters Heights in the ... Read more

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  • Trends in Veterinary Sciences

    Current Aspects in Veterinary Morphophysiology, Biochemistry, Animal Production, Food Hygiene and Clinical Sciences

    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Veterinary science is continuously achieving important developments in all its fields as a result of continuous technological advances in diagnostic tools and applied biology. This book contains 33 papers that were selected from those presented at the 65th Congress of the Italian Society for Veterinary Sciences held at Tropea-Drapia in 2011. It provides a timely overview of the current progress ... Read more

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  • Hard Country

    A Golden Bay Life

    The inspiring and entertaining story of a determined woman and an isolated farming life in Golden Bay. Robby Robilliard and her husband Garry arrived in Golden Bay in 1957. Married in their early twenties, and with a child on the way, they longed to own their own sheep station. When they bought Rocklands, a marginal farm on the fringe of the Takaka Valley, bordering Abel Tasman National Park, ... Read more

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  • Queensland's Threatened Animals

    by Lee K Curtis ...
    Queensland is home to 70% of Australia’s native mammals (226 species), over 70% of native birds (630 species), just over half of the nation’s native reptiles (485) and native frogs (127), and more than 11 000 native plant species. Hundreds of these have a threatened status in Queensland. In order for Queensland to maintain and recover a healthy biodiversity we must address the serious problems ... Read more

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  • Raise Happy Chickens

    How to raise healthy chickens and other poultry in your outdoor space

    Raise Happy Chickens and Other Poultry is a quickly accessible but authoritative guide, suitable for total beginners, that provides all the information you need to start keeping your own chickens.Telling you which breed of bird lays best and providing useful guidance on housing, equipment and the necessities of day-to-day care, it meets all the needs of anyone who dreams of a garden full of happy, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Current and Future Reproductive Technologies and World Food Production

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the impacts of current and future reproductive technologies on our world food production and provides a significant contribution to the importance of research in the area of reproductive physiology that has never been compiled before. It would provide a unique opportunity to separate the impacts of how reproductive technologies have affected different species and their ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Chickens, Ducks and Bees

    A beginner's guide to keeping livestock in the garden

    by Paul Peacock ...
    Growing your own vegetables often leads gardeners to want to go one step further and keep some livestock. Chickens, ducks and bees are the most likely candidates for the first time livestock owner - especially if you live in a town or have only a small amount of land. They can all be kept happily together. Keeping these animals is a fun and absorbing hobby and is a great antidote to stress. There ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Ecology of Australian Freshwater Fishes

    Edited by Keith Walker, Paul Humphries ...
    This edited volume reviews our past and present understanding of the ecology of Australian freshwater fishes. It compares patterns and processes in Australia with those on other continents, discusses the local relevance of ecological models from the northern hemisphere and considers how best to manage our species and their habitats in the face of current and future threats. In view of these ... Read more

    $92.99 USD