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Preservation & Genetics

Managing Breeds for a Secure Future

By Phil Sponenberg & Donald Bixby

This is one of my favorite books.  The Kangal dog from Turkey is a landrace animal and as such this books theories and applications for conservation are applicable.

Managing Breeds for a Secure Future presents challenges regarding maintaining genetic diversity within species & breeds of livestock and poultry.  It is a theoretical exposition as well as a user's guide.  Conservation issues are presented and there are practical approaches for developing successful strategies for securing and standardized breeds and landrace animals.

Livestock Guardian books

Livestock Protection Dogs:  Selection, Care, and Training

By Orysia Dawydiak & David E. Sims

Raising Puppys

Before and After Getting Your Puppy:  The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-behaved Dog

By Dr. Ian Dunbar

Books about Kangal Dogs

If anyone obtains these books for their reading pleasure, please keep in mind that many of the stories in these books refer to the Kangal dogs as Karabash and others just refer to the dogs as yellow dogs with black heads.  There are no references to Kangal dogs as a breed prior to the 1980's in the texts and this is NOT politically acceptable by the Turks.  They are Kangal dogs.

1)      Book of Travels Evliya Çelebi (17th century)

2)      La Guide Marabout des Cheins

3)      Across Asia Minor on Foot W.J.Childs Blackwood & Sons 1917

4)      Gray Wolf – Mustafa Kemal H.C. Armstrong, Minton Baich & Co New York 1933

5)      Turkish Crossroads, Bernard Newman London 1951

6)      Turkey Andrew Falk, Vista Books 1963

7)      Tales Alive in Turkey W Walker & A Vysal Harvard University Press 1966

8)      Everyday Life in Ottoman Turkey Raphaela Lewis 1970?

9)      The Sheep and The Chevrolet Francois Balsan

10)  The Oxford Turkish/English Dictionary 1957 edition

11)Reis en Die Turkei 1599 Helmut Gruner, published around 1600

  

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