Practical Animal Breeding

The essence of Animal Breeding is the sustainable and responsible use of animal genetic resources to meet human needs. Animal breeding is a controlled propagation of domestic animals in order to improve desirable qualities. Humanity has been modifying domesticated animals to better suit human needs for centuries. Selective breeding involves using knowledge from several branches of science. These include genetics, statistics, reproductive physiology, computer science, and molecular genetics. Practical Animal Breeding provides comprehensive and up to date coverage of breeding and fertility in animals. Taking a practical, problem-oriented approach to the theory and practice of animal breeding and infertility, it deals systematically with the typical approaches and problems encountered in the treatment of cattle, goats, horses, pigs and sheep in individual chapters. The basic concepts of this book imparts rudimentary knowledge for the students and research scholars.