Animal agriculture

Animal agriculture is the single largest sector of agricultural economies and accounts for more than 50 percent of agricultural GNP in most developing and transitioning countries. Besides being important sources of food, animals supply society with many other products and services. On this page, links are listed alphabetically according to animal enterprise: fish, beef cattle, bees, buffalo and bison, dairy cattle, dairy beef, deer and elk, ducks and geese, earthworm, equine, gamebirds, poultry, rabbits, ratite, squab, swine and veal.

Livestock1.com
Livestock @ ATTRA
OMAFRA Livestock Index Page
Ranch and Livetock Links
Vermont Livestock
Virtual Livestock Library

Aquaculture (fish)

Aquaculture in Mississippi
Aquaculture Network Info Center (AquaNIC)
[PDF] Catfish farming in Kentucky
Delaware Aquaculture Resource Center
Fresh water fish farming - VA Tech | PDF
Indiana Fish Farming
Louisiana Fisheries
Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center
National Seagrant
NOAA Aquaculture Program

Beef cattle

Adding value to beef production
A*L*O*T Angus Association's Page O'Ag Links
Beef-cattle.com
Beef cattle @ eXtension
Beef Cattle Production Home
BeefLinks.com
Beef Production for Small Farms | PDF
Beef @ Purdue
Beef Stocker USA
Cow-Calf Corner at Oklahoma State University
ForageBeef.ca
National Cattlemen's Beef Association (beef.org)
NDSU Beef Publications
[PDF] Raising beef cattle on a few acres - Mississippi St. Univ.

Beekeeping

Apiculture program at NC State University
Beesource.com
[PDF] Beekeeping - Penn State Ag Alt.
Beekeeping (apiculture) - ATTRA | PDF
HAS The Heartland Apiculture Society
Hivetool.com
Mid-Atlantic Apiculture

Buffalo and bison

Bison Production - ATTRA | PDF
[PDF] Bison Production - Penn State Ag Alt.
Center for Bison and Wildlife Health
Commercial Bison Production - North Dak. St Univ.
Handbook of Bison Production
National Bison Association

Dairy cattle

Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research
Dairy-L Home Page
The DairySite.com
MilkProduction.com
Owning a dairy cow or goat | PDF
University of Wisconsin Center for Dairy Profitability
UW Madison Department of Dairy Science

Dairy beef

Dairy Beef - ATTRA | PDF
[PDF] Dairy Beef Production - Penn State Ag Alt.
Dairy beef @ Iowa State University
Dairy beef quality assurance
Dairy beef production @ Univ. of Minnesota

Deer and elk

DeerNet
[PDF] Elk Production - Penn State Ag Alt.
[PDF] Fallow Deer Production - Penn Stage Ag Alt.
North American Deer Farmers Association
[PDF] Red Deer Production - Penn State Ag Alt.

Ducks and geese

Brooding and rearing ducklings and goslings - Univ. Missouri
Brooding of domestic fowl - VA Tech | PDF
Duck Laboratory @ Cornell University
Duck raising - NSW, Australia
[PDF] Duck raising in the Philippines
Geese raising - NSW, Australia
Geese: the underestimated species - FAO United Nations
A management program for raising breeder duck flocks - NCSU
Management requirements for waterfowl - VA Tech | PDF
Raise-a-duck.com
Raising ducks - Univ. Minn.
Raising geese - Univ. Minn.
Raising geese - UC Davis
[PDF] Raising ducks in small flocks - UC Davis

Earthworm

Baitworm Production - ATTRA | PDF
Earthworm Biology - Univ. Florida | PDF
[PDF] Earthworm Production - Penn State Ag Alt.
Home worm production - Texas A&M
[PDF] Raising earthworms successfully - NCSU
[PDF] Use of goat manure for earthworm production

Equine

Acreage Equines
Center for Equine Health @ UC Davis
Equine Science Publications @ TAMU
Equusite.com
The Feed Barn
HorseAdvice.com
Horses and horse information
Horse Information Center
HorseWeb
Kentucky Equine Research
Ultimate Horse Site

Gamebirds

[PDF] Bobwhite Quail Production - Penn State Ag Alt.
Gamebird production - Univ. of Florida
Raising gamebirds - UC Davis
[PDF] Partridge Production - Penn State Ag Alt.
[PDF] Pheasant Production - Penn State Ag Alt.
Pheasant raising - NSW, Australia
That Quail Place

Poultry

American Pastured Poultry Producers Association
Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc.
Maryland's Poultry
Pastured Poultry Resources
Penn State Poultry Extension
Poultry Hub
Poultry Pages @ Univ. of Connecticut
Poultry Pages
Poultry science technical information - NC State Univ.
The Poultry Site
Poultry U @ the University of Minnesota
A small scale ag alternative: poultry - VA Tech | PDF

Rabbits

American Rabbit Breeders Association, Inc.
Angora rabbit online technical manual
[PDF] Commercial rabbit production - Mississippi St. Univ.
Guidelines for entry into meat rabbit production | PDF
[PDF] Rabbit production - Penn State Ag. Alt.
RabbitWeb.net
Rabbit: husbandry, health, and production - FAO United Nations
Rabbit - North Dakota State University
[PDF] Rabbit Production in the Tropics
[PDF] Raising rabbits: helpful suggestions...-Wash State Univ.
Rabbits: SmallStock in Development
Summer heat and rabbit production | PDF
World Rabbit Science Association

Ratite (ostrich, emu, rhea)

Ratite production: ostrich, emu, and rhea - ATTRA | PDF
Ratites - Ontario, Canada
[PDF] Ostrich Production - Penn State Ag Alt.
[PDF] Rhea Production - Penn Stage Ag Alt.

Squab (pideon)

Bird Health: pigeons
Pigeon management - Univ. Minn.
[PDF] Squab production - British Columbia, Canada
[PDF] Squab raising - NSW, Australia
[PDF] Studies in pigeon nutrition - UC Davis

Swine (hogs, pigs)

American Association of Swine Veterinarians
Hog Production Alternatives - ATTRA | PDF
Illini PorkNET
Iowa Pork Industry Center
National Pork Producers Council
Ohio Pork Information Center
PigHealth.com
Pig Progress.net
The Pig Site.com
Pork @ Purdue
Pork Information Gateway
SwineFile.com
University of Nebraska Pork Central

Veal calves

American Veal Association
Management of grain-fed veal calves - Ontario, Canada
Raising Dairy Veal - Ohio State University
The Veal Farm
The Veal Information Gateway
Veal Production - Penn State Ag Alt.

The Maryland Small Ruminant Page [sheepandgoat.com] was created in 1998 as an information portal for sheep and goat producers and anyone else interested in sheep and goat production and marketing. The web site includes original documents and images as well as a comprehensive list of links pertaining to small ruminants and related topics. The web site was developed and is maintained by Susan Schoenian, Sheep & Goat Specialist at the University of Maryland's Western Maryland Research & Education Center. Susan has been with University of Maryland Extension since 1988. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Animal Science from Virginia Tech and Montana State University, respectively, and also attended The Ohio State University. Susan conducts the Western Maryland Pasture-Based Meat Goat Performance Test at her research facility in Keedysville. She raises Katahdin sheep on her small farm called The Baalands in Clear Spring, Maryland. Please direct all questions, comments, or suggestions to Susan at sschoen@umd.edu.

Disclaimer: The links contained on the Maryland Small Ruminant Page [sheepandgoat.com] and its affiliated pages are for informational purposes only and do not constitute an endorsement of any person, organization, business, or product. The author disclaims any liability in connection with the use of this information. Users of this web site and all external links are encouraged to use common sense and sound judgement when evaluating information. Always consider the source, bias, timeliness, and logic of the web site, as well as author's expertise and bias, when evaluating information from the web.

Last updated 19-Mar-2010 by Susan Schoenian.