Animals are very important to the small farm. Their integration into farming activities provides uses for many byproducts of the farm. They provide high-quality food, income, fertilizer, status, companionship, transportation, labor, and much more for rural families. But seasonal feed shortage and parasite problems can frustrate people's efforts in animal husbandry. This chapter highlights information and resources on raising and caring for animals in the tropics.

• Newsletter on Animal Husbandry in the Third World
• Book Review: Livestock for a Small Earth
• Training in Animal Traction
• Technical Note on Ox Yokes
• An Excellent Resource for Forage Seed and Information
• An Excellent Resource for Forage Seed and Information
• Winrock International Answers Livestock Questions
• Working with Traditional Herders

• "Forages for the Small Farm" Technical Note
• Book Review: The Small-Scale Manufacture of Compound Animal Feed
• Feed Analyses
• Review: Use of Trees by Livestock Series
• Forages Differ Greatly in Digestibility
• `Alfagraze', a Forage Alfalfa
• Buckwheat is a Fast Crop for Cool Areas
• Can Citrus Residue be used for Animal Feed?
• Is There a Benefit to Haymaking?
• Raising Pigs on Moringa Leaves
• Neem Seed as a Feed Ingredient
• How Should I Treat Soybeans So They Can be Fed to Animals?
• Sugar Can Be Used in Pig Diets

• Beekeeping & Development, An "EDN" for Beekeepers
• Independent Study Course on Tropical Beekeeping
• Book Review: Beekeeping of the Assassin Bees/La Abeja Africanizada
• Is the Neem Tree Harmful to Honeybees?
• When Honeybees Become Drunk
• How do the Africans Handle African Bees?
• One Experience With Bees in Africa
• Stopping Bees

• Introducing the Camel

• Technical Note "Meat Production on the Small Farm with Cavy (Guinea Pig)"

• Improving Backyard Chicken Production

• Dry Fishponds Become Oases of Productivity
• Auburn University is Exceptionally Supportive of PVO Work in Aquaculture
• Consulting Help in Water Resource Management, Fisheries and Aquaculture
• New Bulletin Series: Water Harvesting and Aquaculture for Rural Development
• Book Review: How to Grow Fish in the Mountains
• The Institute of Aquaculture

• Insights on Raising Rabbits in the Tropics
• Kinney Mitchell Reports on His Experience with Rabbits in St. Kitts
• Raising Rabbits in Pits
• Nest Box Behavior of Rabbits
• Manual on Raising Rabbits from the Heifer Project
• How Great is the Danger that Rabbits Might Escape from Your Project and "Create Another Australia"?

• Two Series on Veterinary Care: Raising Healthy [Animals] Under Primitive Conditions and Ethnoveterinary Medicine in Asia
• Book Review: Natural Veterinary Medicine
• Poultry in Tick Control on Cattle
• Tick Control Potential
• Homemade Dewormer for Goats
• Veterinary Students at Michigan State University are Available to Answer Questions
• Course in Tropical Animal Health and Production (in French)

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