Meet the editor

Prof. Dr. Sándor Kukovics has spent 40 years at the Research Institute for Animal Breeding and Nutrition (Herceghalom, Hungary), where he is responsible for the small ruminants department. He has edited 35 books, published more than 1,100 articles, and obtained four product licenses. In addition to his research work, he is involved in undergraduate and doctoral education at various universities in Hungary. He has been president

of the Hungarian Dairy Sheep and Goat Public Utility Association since 1996, and executive manager of the Sheep and Goat Product Board (Hungary) since 2010. Between 2015 and 2019 he served as vice president of the EU COPA-COGECA Working Party on Sheep and Goats, and he has served on the Board of Directors of the International Goat Association since 2016.

Contents

**Section 1**

Basic Animal Breeding Methods

*by Mohan Singh Thakur*

*and Radha Gupta*

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

**Section 4**

*by Ottó Szenci*

in Developing Countries

Performance in Dairy Cattle

**Preface XI**

Breeding **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

Genomics and Welfare **39**

**Chapter 3 41**

Production Systems **57**

**Chapter 4 59**

Reproduction **73**

**Chapter 5 75**

Importance of Monitoring the Peripartal Period to Increase Reproductive

*by Natascha Vukasinovic, Dianelys Gonzalez, Cory Przybyla, Jordan Brooker,* 

Design and Development of Self-Made Cost-Effective Microsoft Excel

Visual Basic Application for Livestock Ration Formulation *by Vishal Patil, Ravinder Singh Kuntal, Duraisamy Rajendran* 

Genetic Control of Wellness in Dairy Cattle

*by Ditty Maria Dominic and Hans Ram Meena*

*Asmita Kulkarni,Tiago Passafaro and Anthony McNeel*

Leveraging Livestock Production Systems for Human Nutrition
