Book Description

Animal breeding in the netherlands; Presentation by new member coutries; Tendencies of development on milk breeds in bulgaria; Dairy herd improvement services in estonia; Milk recording and genetic evalution ofcattle and buffaloes in india; Communications on the situation and evalution of milk recording in specific coutries; Reports of the task forces and sub-committees and related communications; Report of the ICAR task force on the development fund; report of the ICAR task force on world breed associations; The role of breed associations within ICAR; New developments and responsibilities in farm management systems; Eperiences with the application of the AM/PM method in the rhineland area; Report of the INTERBULL sub-committee for 1994 and 1995; Milk recordingaccuracy and its impact on genetic evaluations; Effects of the sires'coutry of origion on the genetic features of the brow breed in bulgaria; Report of the sires' coutry of origion on the genetic features of the brow breed in Bulgaria; Report of the ICAR sub-committee on milk meters and jars; Automatic cluster removal by electronic milk meters; Prediction of 305-day lactation production of Italian dairy cattle breeds; Report pf the ICAR Worling group on computer development; Joint data base system for the nordic coutries: Challenge and perpecitves; Possible consequences for french dairy farming of the ISO stards for electronic data interchange; The faz: a new mean for sending milkm records results to farmers; Calculating nutrient balaces in dairy farm milk recording systems; NRS-IRIS: A multi-user sytem ti stores and process cattle data on registration, milk recording and breeding; Pilot cattle information system in egipt; Technical change and its impact on NMR; Report of the ICAR working group on milk testing laboratories; Calibration and quality control of aoutomatic somatic cell couters using recombined milk samples; Requeriments and of the acceditation of testing laboratories for milk yield and quality control; Report of the ICAR working group on health and fertility recording: Genetic improvement pf functional traits in dairy cattle concerted action; Somatic cell count and its value for dairy cow management; Integrated veterinary herd supervision Bavarian milk recording; Current status concerning the use of milk urea concentration: Analytical methods, use in different countriesand how to utilise the results; Report of the ICAR Working group on beef perfomance; New rules for beef perfomance recording suckler herds in france; Economic and genetic evalution of a non-supervidies field test for beef production; Linking french and british limousion genetic evaluation systems; Report of the ICAR working group on goat milk recording; Milk recording of goast in the netherlands; First control and number of daily milkings influencing the goat milk recording; Report of the ICAR working group 0n milk recording of sheep: Survey of milk recording and genetic evaluation of dairy sheep; Milk yield adjustments for milking length and age-parity-month of lambing interaction in the sarda dairy sheep breed; Validation of estimated genetic trend in frenchlacaune dairy sheep evaluation; Suvey on the recording of milk perfomances of dairy buffaloes in the world; Utilisation of monthly test-date method for milk recording of egyptian buffaloes; Factors limiting regular recording of laction performence of dairy buffaloes in pakistan; Perfomance recording and future improvement of buffalo population in Bulgaria; Report of the ICAR Working group on animal indentification; Approval procedure and permanebt obasrvations in france for offical cattle ear tags; The sytem of cattle indentification in germany; Effectsof injection site and of transponder size in electronic indentification of cattel; Automation of weighing operations with electrionic ear tags; Comparasion of different devices for electronic indentification ofdairy sheep; Electronic indentification of sheep, goats and cattle using ruminal bolus; Tracing single animals for quality control purpose.