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• The Stockman's Handbook (third edition; Danville, IL: Interstate Printers and Publishers, 1962), by M. Eugene Ensminger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (1991), by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Predicting Feed Intake of Food-Producing Animals (1987), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The Principles of Breeding: or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws Involved in the Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee and Co., 1861), by S. L. Goodale (page images at Cornell)
• Zootechnie Générale: Production et Amélioration du Bétail (in French; Paris: J.-B. Bailliere et fils, 1915), by Paul Diffloth, contrib. by Paul Regnard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Live-Stock of the Farm (second edition; London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1875), by R. Oliphant Pringle (page images at Cornell)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Artificial Insemination to Cloning: Tracing 50 Years of Research (c1998), by Robert H. Foote (PDF at Cornell)

• Reproductive Biology of the Mare: Basic and Applied Aspects (second edition; Madison, WI: Department of Veterinary Science, University of Wisconsin Madison, 1992), by O. J. Ginther (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mule Production (Farmers bulletin 1341; Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1940), by John Oscar Williams and S. R. Speelman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Global Benefits Of Eating Less Meat (Hampshire, UK: Compassion in World Farming Trust, 2004), by Mark Gold, contrib. by Jonathon Porritt (PDF in the UK)

• The Cattle, Sheep and Pigs of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: H. Cox, "The Field" Office, 1887), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Farmer's New and Universal Handbook (page images at MOA)

• Hillside Farm (ca. 1907), by Z. A. R. Nesbit, illust. by E. B. S. Montefiore and F. S. Silver (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• Archivos de Zootecnia (partial serial archives)
• The National Stockman and Farmer (partial serial archives)

• Po-Bol'shevistski Vypolnim Reshenie Partii i Pravitel'stva o Razvitii Obshchestvennogo Zhivotnovodstva v Kolkhozakh (in Russian; 1939), by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Beef Bonanza, or, How to Get Rich on the Plains: Being a Description of Cattle-Growing, Sheep-Farming, Horse-Raising, and Dairying in the West (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., 1885), by James S. Brisbin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Effect of Environment on Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals (1981), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Predicting Feed Intake of Food-Producing Animals (1987), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Nutritional Energetics of Domestic Animals and Glossary of Energy Terms, by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Undernutrition in Steers: Its Relation to Metabolism, Digestion, and Subsequent Realimentation (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #324; 1923), by Francis Gano Benedict and Ernest G. Ritzman
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Artificial Insemination to Cloning: Tracing 50 Years of Research (c1998), by Robert H. Foote (PDF at Cornell)
• Medically Assisted Conception: An Agenda for Research (1989), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) and National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Dual-Purpose Cattle (first edition; Springfield, MO: Roberts Bros., 1953), by Claude H. Hinman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cattle, Sheep and Deer (fifth edition; London: Steel and Jones, 1872), by Duncan George Forbes Macdonald (page images at Cornell)
• Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes, Exhibiting All the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos (London: G. Biggs, 1851), by George Vasey
  • page images at Cornell
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Animal Management (1908; reprinted 1916), by Great Britain War Office Veterinary Department (page images at HathiTrust)

• Building a North American Feed Information System (1995), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Predicting Feed Intake of Food-Producing Animals (1987), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Animal Management (1908; reprinted 1916), by Great Britain War Office Veterinary Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Dissertation on Horses: Wherein it is Demonstrated, by Matters of Fact, as Well as From the Principles of Philosophy, that Innate Qualities do not Exist, and that the Excellence of this Animal is Altogether Mechanical and not in the Blood (London: Printed for T. Waller, 1756), by William Osmer (Gutenberg text and HTML)
• The Faras-Nama-E Rangin: or, The Book of the Horse (London: B. Quaritch, 1911), by Saʻādat Yār K̲h̲ān, trans. by D. C. Phillott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Four Essays (Harvard Studies in Romance Languages v3; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1917), by Murray Anthony Potter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Spider and the Fly: or, Tricks, Traps, and Pitfalls of City Life, By One Who Knows (compilation of some previous publications, with some early pages missing; New York: C. Miller and Co., 1875), contrib. by Henry William Herbert
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Microlivestock: Little-Known Small Animals with a Promising Economic Future (1991), by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Mule Production (Farmers bulletin 1341; Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1940), by John Oscar Williams and S. R. Speelman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mule: A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put (1867), by Harvey Riley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Basic Chicken Guide for the Small Flock Owner (New York: W. Morrow and Co., 1944), by Roy Edwin Jones, contrib. by E. B. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Dollar Hen (1911), by Milo Hastings (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Game Fowl: Its Origin and History; With Sketches of Great Strains and Their Breeders of Former and Present Times, Together With a Complete Treatise on Breeding and Management of Fowls at Home and at the Pit, Their Diseases and Remedies, and Rules of the Cockpit (Gaffney, SC: Presses of Grit and Steel, ca. 1906), by R. A. McIntyre (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Poultry Compendium: Being a Brief Treatise on the Rearing and Management of Domestic Fowls (1885), by Harmon Seeley Babcock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sheep, Swine, and Poultry: Embracing the History and Varieties of Each, the Best Modes of Breeding, Their Feeding and Management; Together With the Diseases to Which They are Respectively Subject, and the Appropriate Remedies for Each (Philadelphia: J. E. Potter and Co., 1864), by Robert Jennings (page images at Cornell)

• Blackfaced Sheep: Their History, Distribution, and Improvement, With Methods of Management and Treatment of Their Principal Diseases (Edinburgh and London: T. C. Jack, 1888), by John Scott and Charles Scott
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Sheep, Swine, and Poultry: Embracing the History and Varieties of Each, the Best Modes of Breeding, Their Feeding and Management; Together With the Diseases to Which They are Respectively Subject, and the Appropriate Remedies for Each (Philadelphia: J. E. Potter and Co., 1864), by Robert Jennings (page images at Cornell)
• Cattle, Sheep and Deer (fifth edition; London: Steel and Jones, 1872), by Duncan George Forbes Macdonald (page images at Cornell)

• Swine Science (third edition; Danville, IL: The Interstate, c1961), by M. Eugene Ensminger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harris on the Pig: Breeding, Rearing, Management, and Improvement (New York: O. Judd et Co., c1870), by Joseph Harris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Cornell
• The Hog: A Treatise on the Breeds, Management, Feeding, and Medical Treatment of Swine; With Directions for Salting Pork and Curing Bacon and Hams (New York: O. Judd and Co., c1855), by William Youatt and W. C. L. Martin, ed. by Ambrose Stevens (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sheep, Swine, and Poultry: Embracing the History and Varieties of Each, the Best Modes of Breeding, Their Feeding and Management; Together With the Diseases to Which They are Respectively Subject, and the Appropriate Remedies for Each (Philadelphia: J. E. Potter and Co., 1864), by Robert Jennings (page images at Cornell)

• Effect of Environment on Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals (1981), by National Research Council Committee on Animal Nutrition (page images with commentary at NAP)

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