tailieunhanh - PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF CAMELS

Health care and hygiene programmes can help in control. Watering at night or at midday reduces the risk of being bitten by flies. Preventive measures before the onset of the disease (Chemoprophylaxis) and curative measures after the disease is clinically evident (Chemotherapy) have shown varying success in controlling and combating the disease (Table 32). As for all trypanosome diseases, drug resistance due to misuse and especially by using too small doses or diluting the drug with water or some other liquid is an increasing problem. In addition, some drugs that are effective in other domestic livestock are poorly tolerated. | Part - III Production and Management of Camels PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF CAMELS Bakht Baidar Khan Arshad Iqbal Muhammad Riaz Department of Livestock Management University of Agriculture Faisalabad 2003 Bakhat Baidar Khan Arshad Iqbal and Muhammad Riaz University of Agriculture Faisalabad. Part - III Production and Management of Camels PREFACE The camel without exaggeration is the most ignored among the domestic ruminants in Pakistan. This is as much true in terms of lack of efforts to improve its care and productivity as it is in terms of lack of any planned research on it. Had it been an unproductive and a useless animal its population would have gradually diminished but it is the other way round. Its population is steadily growing. On papers its population is being shown as stagnating but most probably it is not so. On the international scene there seems now a growing awakening in respect of the camel. At places it has been termed as a food security animal . In Pakistan too some teaching institutions have taken an initiative and have incorporated Camel Production in their teaching courses. No doubt it is a very timely step. Scientists from Germany England India Australia and UAE have published books on camel. These are of course good books but as usual their prices are prohibitive for our students extension workers and even for teachers. Moreover these books contain a little information about camels in Pakistan. Therefore an easy-to-understand book on Production and Management of Camels using a question-answer format has been compiled. This should provide ready-made answers to so many questions simmering in the minds of students teachers researchers and extension specialists. It embodies about 400 questions along with their answers. The book discusses the distribution of camels in different continents countries breeds and types of camels with cross reference to other species nutritional physiology and reproductive management the way camels adapt to hot arid .