tailieunhanh - Goat keeping in the tropics - Part 1

Agrodok 7 Goat keeping in the tropics Agromisa Foundation, Wageningen, 2004. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photocopy, microfilm or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. First English edition: 1991 Second revised edition: 2000 Third edition: 2002 fourth edition: 2004 Authors | Agrodok 7 Goat keeping in the tropics Carl Jansen Kees van den Burg Agromisa Foundation Wageningen 2004. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by print photocopy microfilm or any other means without written permission from the publisher. First English edition 1991 Second revised edition 2000 Third edition 2002 fourth edition 2004 Authors Carl Jansen Kees van den Burg Editor Robert Corner Illustrator Barbera Oranje Design Janneke Reijnders Translation . Guijt Robert Corner Printed by Digigrafi Wageningen The Netherlands ISBN 90-77073-55-8 NUGI 835 Foreword Agromisa s Question and Answer Service receives many questions on goat keeping. We therefore have written this practical Agrodok on goat keeping. The aim is to provide basic information for those who work directly with the small-scale goat farmers in the tropics. It is not our intention to be comprehensive. For those who wish to know more a number of good in-depth books are mentioned in the bibliography. In writing this book we made use of materials of others. We wish to thank all those who have contributed to this Agrodok. We especially wish to thank Peter Hofs of the Tropical Animal Husbandry section of the Wageningen Agricultural University for his useful comments. We hope that this booklet will be useful and interesting for the readers. The Authors Wageningen March 1991 Foreword to the second revised edition In this second revised edition the chapter on nutrition and feeding has been improved by Arno Overgaag one of Agromisa s animal husbandry experts. Dr. . Ibrahim of the Department of Animal Sciences University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka reviewed the revised chapter and Robert Corner did the editing work. Barbera Oranje improved the pictures throughout the whole Agrodok. We are thankful to all of them for their time and effort they spent on this. We especially want to acknowledge OXFAM UK and Ireland in association with FARM-Africa who have granted us permission to use