Recent Trends in Livestock Production

This book is compiled to elucidate the importance of management and technological interventions in livestock particularly the dairy animals. The book emphasizes on livestock resources and their importance in rural economy, management of transition period, body condition score, calf management, judging and selection of dairy animals, breeding approaches, integrated farming systems, role of genes in heat stress in poultry, organic livestock production, precision dairy farming, sex sorted semen, estrous synchronization techniques in farm animals and other technological interventions in the development of livestock. The management cum technological developments and entrepreneurships in livestock may boon the livestock productivity thereby providing the food and economic security of rural masses.