Progress in Sheep and Goat Research

by A.W. Speedy

A number of issues are addressed in this book including: reproduction and biotechnology (artificial insemination and embryo transfer, and production of transgenic sheep for improved wool production), nutrition (e.g. ewe nutrition during gestation and lactation), growth and physiology (e.g. regulation of fetal development) and animal health (scrapic, lentivirus diseases and immunity to parasites). There are also chapters on foraging strategies, on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851987729
• ISBN13: 9780851987729
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages