MILK PRODUCTION FROM PASTURE BY HOLMES & WILSON - REVISED EDITION

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF DAIRY FARMING ON GRAZED PASTURE.

PUBLISHER: BUTTERWORTH-HEINEMANN 1987 ISBN-10: 0409702315 320 PAGES

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THIS BOOK DEALS WITH NOT JUST THE METHODS AND PRINCIPLES OF DAIRY-CATTLE HUSBANDRY BUT ALSO THE RELEVANT BASIC SCIENCE OF NUTRITION, LACTATION, REPRODUCTION AND GENETICS. BREEDING OF A SINGLE HERD, PRINCIPLES OF GENETIC IMPROVEMENT.

THE AUTHORS ARE ALL FROM MASSEY UNIVERSITY AND THE BOOK IS SET IN THE NEW ZEALAND SCENE. THE BOOK PROVIDES A SOURCE ON DAIRY-CATTLE SUCH AS THE NEW ZEALAND BREEDING INDEX AND INFORMATION ON RATES OF GENETIC IMPROVEMENT IN THE NATIONAL HERD.

THE GENETIC PRINCIPLES ARE PRESENTED. BIOMETRICS, BASIC STATISTICS, MEAN AND VARIANCE, INTRA-CLASS CORRELATION AND REGRESSION, PATH COEFFICIENTS AND SELECTION INDICES, COMPUTATIONS OF INBREEDING COEFFICIENTS AND RELATIONSHIPS, SELECTION INDICES. ANIMAL-BREEDING, GENERATION INTERVAL.

"I AM NOT AWARE OF ANY OTHER BOOK DEALING IN SO MUCH DEPTH WITH BOTH SCIENCE AND HUSBANDRY OF ANY ASPECT OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION". – BY W. G. HILL, INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL GENETICS, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH