Scientific Farm Animal Production

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Pearson New International Edition

Robert Taylor Robert W. Taylor Thomas G. Field(Author)

Pearson Education Limited (Publisher)

10th Edition

Published on 1. November 2013

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656 pages

978-1-292-04226-8 (ISBN)

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About our authorsRobert W. Taylor is currently a tenured full professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at The University of Texas at Dallas. The department was recently ranked 5th in the world in academic excellence based on the strength of its PhD program. Previous to this position, he was the director of the Executive Masters in Justice Administration and Leadership Program and the former program head of the Public Affairs Program at UT-Dallas. Both are academic programs integrating the traditions of management, governmental affairs, policy analysis and decision science in the public sector. The Public Affairs Program hosted one of the largest graduate degree programs on campus, including doctoral (PhD) and master's degrees in public affairs and public administration.From January 2008 through 2010, Dr. Taylor was the executive director of the W.W. Caruth Jr. Police Institute at Dallas (CPI). The Institute was established through a $9.5 million grant from the Communities Foundation of Texas. Dr. Taylor was a principal party to the development of the Institute and was appointed founding director by the University of North Texas System. The primary mission of the Institute is to provide direction and coordination of major training and research projects for the Dallas Police Department. The Institute represents a national "think tank" on policing strategies focused on major urban cities in the United States. Dr. Taylor remains a "Scholar-in-Residence" at the Institute. From 1996 to 2008, he was professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of North Texas. He served in this capacity for 13 years and, under his direction, the department gained national prominence, especially with the establishment of the Caruth Police Institute.In 1995, Dr. Taylor took a leave of absence from university administration and teaching to join Emergency Resources International, Inc., the parent company of the famed "Red Adair" firefighters. His duties as senior vice-president of the Crisis Management Division included liaison with foreign governments and authorities, extensive contract negotiations and the strategic development of a worldwide communication and information system. Dr. Taylor's major project was acting as team leader on the largest oil spill in history (3 million barrels), located in the remote Nenets District of Russia, over 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle.For the past 40 years, Dr. Taylor has studied criminal justice administration and specifically police responses to crime and terrorism, focusing on issues in the Middle East. He has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East, meeting several heads of state in that region. He has acted as a consultant to numerous federal, state and local agencies, and since September 11, 2001, Dr. Taylor has been a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice working with the Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR) as a lead instructor in the State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program (SLATT). Dr. Taylor has also worked extensively throughout the Middle East, especially in the country of Turkey. He has been an instructor for the U.S. Department of State, Anti-Terrorism Assistance (ATA) Program (2001 to 2006) and taught internationally in the Executive Seminar on Cyber Terrorism, presented to executives of foreign governments. Dr. Taylor holds appropriate top-secret national security clearances through the JPASS system (archived).Dr. Taylor has authored or coauthored more than 200 articles, books and manuscripts. Most of his publications focus on police administration and management, police procedures, international and domestic terrorism, drug trafficking and criminal justice policy. His articles appear in numerous journals, including Defense Analysis (University of Oxford, England Press), the ANNALS (American Academy of Political and Social Sciences), Police Quarterly, Crime and Delinquency and the Police Chief (International A

Content

1. Animal Contribution to Human Needs

2. Overview of the Livestock and Poultry Industries

3. Red Meat Products

4. Poultry and Egg Products

5. Milk and Milk Products

6. Wool and Mohair

7. By-Products of Meat Animals

8. Market Classes and Grades of Livestock, Poultry, and Eggs

9. Visual Evaluation of Market Animals

10. Reproduction

11. Artificial Insemination, Estrous Synchronization, and Embryo Transfer

12. Genetics

13. Genetic Change through Selection

14. Mating Systems

15. Nutrients and Their Functions

16. Digestion and Absorption of Feed

17. Providing Nutrients for Body Functions

18. Growth and Development

19. Lactation

20. Adaptation to the Environment

21. Animal Health

22. Animal Behavior

23. Beef Cattle Breeds and Breeding

24. Feeding and Managing Beef Cattle

25. Dairy Cattle Breeds and Breeding

26. Feeding and Managing Dairy Cattle

27. Swine Breeds and Breeding

28. Feeding and Managing Swine

29. Sheep and Goat Breeds and Breeding

30. Feeding and Managing Sheep and Goats

31. Horse Breeds and Breeding

32. Feeding and Managing Horses

33. Poultry Breeding, Feeding, and Management

34. Aquaculture

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