The art and science of livestock evaluation
A work from Cengage Learning on the science of livestock evaluation
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Clifton Park, New York :
Delmar Cengage Learning ,
c2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Selecting livestock : art or science?
- 2. Placing live classes of animals
- 3. Presenting oral reasons
- 4. Selecting breeding swine
- 5. The selection of market swine
- 6. Using performance data and expected progeny differences in swine
- 7. Selecting breeding cattle
- 8. Evaluating and grading market beef animals
- 9. Evaluating performance data for beef cattle
- 10. Selecting breeding sheep
- 11. Selecting market sheep
- 12. Wool judging
- 13. Evaluating sheep performance data
- 14. Horse judging: anatomy, terminology, and rules
- 15. Judging the halter class - evaluating conformation
- 16. Riding classes