Small Scale Livestock and Livelihoods Program

(Formerly the Small Scale Livestock Promotion Program - SSLPP)

Useful links to reference books and materials

Village chickens - some useful sources:

• The FAO's Small-scale Poultry Production - Technical Guide (2004)
  Or download the PDF version (0.8 MB)
• The Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research's publications on village chickens, including:
• Controlling Newcastle Disease in Village Chickens: A Field Manual
• Controlling Newcastle Disease in Village Chickens: A Training Manual
• Controlling Newcastle Disease in Village Chickens: A Laboratory Manual
• Improving village chicken production: a manual for field workers and trainers. Ahlers et al. 2009. Monograph No 139. ACIAR..
Part 1 (Download PDF 1.3 MB)
Part 2 (Download PDF 1.4 MB)
Part 3 (Download PDF 1.8 MB)
Part 4 (Download PDF 0.5 MB)

Animal health:

• The on-line Merck Veterinary Manual - a comprehensive text book on animal diseases.
• The on-line Foreign Animal Diseases "The Gray Book" (1998) or download PDF version (4.4 MB) - a US Animal Health Association publication on those foreign animal diseases considered to be the greatest threat to the livestock and poultry industries in the United States.

Veterinary drugs:

• The FDA Online Green Book lists the animal drug products approved for safety and effectiveness by the US Food and Drug Administration.
• The Australian APVMA Pubcris database contains details of agricultural and veterinary chemical products which are registered for use in Australia.

Animal nutrition:

• The US National Research Council's series of publications on the nutrient requirements of livestock, including:
• Nutrient Requirements of Poultry,
• Nutrient Requirements of Dairy Cattle,
• Nutrient Requirements of Swine,
• Nutrient Requirements of Small Ruminants,
• Nutrient Requirements of Goats.
• The "Feedstuffs" newpaper's Reference Issue which provides much useful advice and information on feeds and nutrient requirements of livestock.
• SSLLP's Nutritional values for some representative livestock feedstuffs in Malawi (Download PDF 80 kB)

Basic animal production and health care

• The FAO's Manual for the Primary Animal Health Care Worker (1994)
• Heifer International's List of Publications
• Swedish Cooperative Centre's:
Goat Keeping (PDF documents):
• Book 1 (Download PDF 3.2 MB)
• Book 2 (Download PDF 3.4 MB)
• Book 3 (Download PDF 2 MB)
Pig Keeping (PDF documents):
• Book 1 (Download PDF 2.6 MB)
• Book 2 (Download PDF 14.5 MB)
• Book 3 (Download PDF 9.8 MB)
• Network for Smallholder Poultry Development:
  Keeping Village Poultry - A technical manual on small-scale poultry production (Download PDF 7.1 MB)
• Where There is No Vet, Bill Forse. 1999. ISBN 0-333-58899-1. (Review)

The Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS)

• The Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) (Download PDF 2.8 MB) is the Malawi Government's overarching operational medium-term strategy for the five years 2006-2011.
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