Understanding Animal Breeding

An experienced animal breeder, Rick Bourdon designed this book to be a modern, technologically up-to-date approach to animal breeding. Understanding Animal Breeding addresses the abstract concepts of animal breeding, presenting the necessary mathematics, but previous experience in genetics and statistics is not assumed. Well organized and readable, the book stresses application, then explains theory for an overall understanding of the material. Coverage explores the latest material on interactions and breeding objectives; performance testing; probabilities and inheritance; the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium with multiple alleles; realized response to selection; breeding for uniformity; and biotechnology. For practicing animal breeders as well as those interested in breeding and agriculture.

• Pathways to Pregnancy and Parturition
• Schaum's Outline of Genetics, Fifth Edition (Schaums Outline Series)
• Basic Animal Nutrition and Feeding
• Animal Feeding and Nutrition
• Farm Management
• Livestock Feeds and Feeding (6th Edition)
• Principles of Meat Science
• Companion Animals: Their Biology, Care, Health, and Management (2nd Edition)
• Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals
• Animal Science and Industry (7th Edition)