This book offers a comprehensive guide to swine production covering genetics, breeding, nutrition, disease management, and pork processing for veterinary professionals and livestock producers.
This book covers swine production from genetic resources to value-added products. It examines indigenous and exotic breeds, economic traits, breeding management, nutrition requirements, reproduction, artificial insemination, and disease management and constitutes:
- Scientific approach to nutrient requirements, feeding strategies, and feed efficiency optimization
- Complete reproductive management including artificial insemination techniques and estrus synchronization
- Extensive coverage of viral, bacterial, parasitic, and deficiency diseases with diagnostic approaches
- Postmortem examination techniques and pathological insights for disease identification
- Hygienic pork production methods and value-added product development for commercial applications
The book includes detailed sections on housing systems, feeding strategies, pathological examination, hygienic pork production, and processing techniques. Written for veterinary students, researchers, and industry professionals in swine production and management
This title has been co-published with Narendra Publishing House. T&F does not sell or distribute the print and electronic editions in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Bhutan.
Preface
List of Contributors
About the Editor
1. Swine genetic resources
2. Economic traits in swine
3. Swine production and management
4. Nutrient requirements and feeding of pigs
5. Pig reproduction
6. Artificial insemination in swine
7. Diseases of swine
8. Visualizing diseases: postmortem insights into pig pathology
9. Hygienic pork production
10. Value added pork products
References
Jowel Debnath is presently working as Assistant Professor (Selection Grade) in the Department of Livestock Farm Complex (Faculty of Animal Genetics & Breeding), College of Veterinary Sciences & A.H., R.K.Nagar, West Tripura-799008 since 2012. He obtained B.V.Sc & A.H degree from College of Veterinary Sciences & A.H., Selesih, Aizawl, India, in 2009. He did his M.V.Sc & Ph.D in Animal Genetics & Breeding from the Division of Animal Genetics, Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, India, in the year of 2011 and 2016, respectively. He was recipient of IPSA Prof. P.K. Pani research award-2015 from Indian Poultry Science Association, ICAR-CARI, Izatnagar, Bareilly, India.
Debnath has edited and published a book namely Duck Production & Management in the year 2022, and has organized various training for the farmers and also acted as resource person in various scientific and skilled development programmes. The editor has completed Department of Biotechnology, New Delhi, Government of India and ICAR Central Avian Research Institute, Izatnagar, Bareilly, Govt. of India funded research project as Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator, respectively. His area of research is Avian Molecular Genetics.
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