Profitable Sheep and Goat Farming

Pampori, Z A

• Publisher: Daya Publishing House
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9789386949288
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Veterinary Medicine

Sheep and goats have served poor people's most reliable livelihood resource since their domestication during Neolithic Revolution. Worldwide over 100 million people in arid areas, have only possible source of livelihood by grazing small ruminants. Grazing sheep and goats can improve soil and vegetation cover and plant and animal biodiversity. Sheep and goats thrive well in varied climatic conditions, get adapted easily to environment, require less care and management and are suitable for meat, milk, wool, skins and manure production. Mutton and Chowan is consumed throughout the country without involving any religious taboo. Together, the goat and sheep rearing households constitute 15 per cent of the total number of households in the country. The book contains a package of farm practices encompassing housing, handling, feeding, health care, record keeping, fodder and manure management as well as project reporting for sheep and goats. This precise package of practices hopefully shall benefit all the farmers engaged in small ruminant farming as well as all those educated entrepreneurs that are willing to take livestock rearing as their career option. It will guide through all aspects of sheep and goat farm management. It is hoped that the book will help farmers in managing their livestock and teachers equally in imparting academic instructions to veterinary graduates.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Message from Dean’s Desk
• Message from Vice-Chancellor
• Preface
• 1. Importance of Livestock Farming in Livelihood and Food Security
• 2. Housing of Sheep and Goats
• 3. Nutritional Requirement and Feeding Management in Sheep and Goat
• 4. Handling of Sheep and Goat
• 5. Management of Livestock in different Phases of Development and Growth
• 6. Disease Control and Management in Sheep and Goat
• 7. Important Breeds of Sheep and Goats
• 8. Management of Farm Records
• 9. Fodder Management
• 10. Manure Management
• 11. Farm Project Report
• 12. Determination of Age of an Animal
• 13. Interesting Behaviours of Sheep and Goat
• 14. Flock Management Annual Calendar
• 15. Physiological Profles of Sheep and Goats