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• 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)

• The Cattle of Great Britain: Being a Series of Articles on the Various Breeds of Cattle of the United Kingdom, Their History, Management, &c. (London: "The Field" Office, 1875), ed. by John Coleman, illust. by Harrison Weir (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Family Facts (Webster City, IA: F. Hahne Printing Co., c1956), by Georgianna Hahne Amsden (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Hereford Journal (partial serial archives)

• The Rising Dairy Breed: The French-Canadian Cattle, Also Known as the "Canadian" Breed, and as the "Quebec Jerseys" (ca. 1909)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Dairy Cow: A Monograph on the Ayrshire Breed of Cattle (Boston: A. Williams and Co., 1875), by E. Lewis Sturtevant and J. Bevier Sturtevant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Cornell

• The Kerry and Dexter Herd Book (partial serial archives)

• Holstein-Friesian Herd Book, by Holstein-Friesian Association of America (partial serial archives)

• History of Randleigh Farm (Lockport, NY: W.R. Kenan, Jr., c1935), by William Rand Kenan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Kerry and Dexter Herd Book (partial serial archives)

• Justin Morgan, Founder of His Race: The Romantic History of a Horse (New York: The Shakespeare Press, 1911), by Eleanor Waring Burnham, illust. by Roger Noble Burnham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Eclipse and O'Kelly: Being a Complete History So Far as is Known of That Celebrated English Thoroughbred Eclipse (1764-1789), of His Breeder the Duke of Cumberland and of his subsequent owners William Wildman, Dennis O'Kelly and Andrew O'Kelly, Now For the First Time Set Forth From the Original Authorities and Family Memoranda (London: W. Heinemann, 1907), by Theodore Andrea Cook
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Gold and Silver Sebright Bantams (London: Feathered World, ca. 1905), by R. Wiseman-Cunningham (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise Upon the Mating, Rearing and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs (Hartford: H. H. Stoddard, 1886), by L. Frank Baum
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hamburghs Up to Date (third edition, ca. 1907), by Charles Holt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Plymouth Rocks, Barred, White, and Buff: Their Practical Qualities, the Standard Requirements, How to Judge Them, How to Breed and Mate for Best Results (Quincy, IL: Reliable Poultry Journal Pub. Co., c1906) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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)

• Nouveau Traité sur la Laine et sur les Moutons (bound with some related works; in French; Paris: Mme. Huzard et al, 1824), by Gaspard Perrault de Jotemps, Fabry, and Felix Girod de l'Ain
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Story of a Persian Cat (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1898), by Jennie Chappell (page images at Florida)

• The Eton College Hunt: A Short History of Beagling at Eton (Eton College: Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co., 1923), by A. C. Crossley, illust. by J. Robertson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Rosehead (c2014), by Ksenia Anske (multiple formats with commentary at kseniaanske.com)

• Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump, and His Wonderful Dog Bulger (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1890), by Ingersoll Lockwood, illust. by George Wharton Edwards
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Mouse in the Mountain (originally published 1943), by Norbert Davis (HTML with commentary at manybooks.net)

• Thirty Years With Fighting Dogs (Washington: Jack Jones, 1935), by George C. Armitage (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Pit Bull Terrier: A Complete Treatise on the Breed Covering the Entire Field, Useful and Valuable to All Owners of an American Pit Bull Terrier (Sacramento: The News Publishing Co., 1936), by Joseph L. Colby (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Airedale Terrier (London: W. Glass and Co., n.d.), by Ferguson Marshall Jowett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Complete Story of the Airedale Terrier (New York: A. B. Proctor, 1913), by Ferguson Marshall Jowett, contrib. by Arthur B. Proctor (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Boston Terrier: Its History, Points, Breeding, Rearing, Training, and Care, Together with Several Instructive Chapters on Management and Diseases of Dogs From a Common Sense View (new and revised edition; New York: Field and Fancy Pub. Co., c1906), by J. Varnum Mott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Toy Dogs and Their Ancestors: Including the History and Management of Toy Spaniels, Pekingese, Japanese and Pomeranians (New York: D. Appleton and company, 1911), by Lady Wentworth
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Long-Faced Tumblers and All About Them: A Practical Monograph Dealing with the Breeding and Exhibiting of All the Long-Faced Tumbler Pigeons, by C. A. House (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)

• California Range Land: An Historico-Ecological Study of the Range Resource of California (Sacramento: California Division of Forestry, Dept. of Natural Resources, 1957), by L. T. Burcham (page images at HathiTrust)

• El "Huecú" o "Huaicú": Enfermedad de Tipo Nervioso Propria de los Herbívoros de la Patagonia (in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Talleres Gráficos del Ministerio de Agricultura de la Nación, 1916), by Julián L. Acosta
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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

More items available under broader and related terms at left.