Handbook of Calf Health and Management: A Guide to Best Practice Care for Calves

Handbook of Calf Health and Management: A Guide to Best Practice Care for Calves

Author: Sophie Mahendran

Publisher: 5m Books Ltd

Published: 2021-10-31

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1789181739

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A guide to calf management authored by veterinarians with years of experience in both practice and research. The focus is on rearing a calf for optimal health and enhanced productivity, with a focus on welfare and best practice. Handbook of Calf Health and Management employs a lifecycle approach to management, seeing the calf through from conception to bulling age. Topics covered include feeding strategies and feeding behaviour, hygiene, weaning, grazing, husbandry advice and disease management. The approach throughout is of animal and keeper working together. The information presented has a solid research foundation and is evidence based and up to date. Practical tips from the authors’ own experience are also included. Handbook of Calf Health and Management is a must have book for both cattle veterinarians, veterinary students, farmers and stockpeople with an interest in calf management. 5m Books


The Cattle Health Handbook

The Cattle Health Handbook

Author: Heather Smith Thomas

Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

Published: 2009-03-11

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1603426493

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Whether you are caring for a single dairy cow or a large herd, this guide provides all the information you need to keep your cattle healthy, increase the self-sufficiency of your operation, and substantially reduce veterinary costs. The Cattle Health Handbook is the essential medical reference for farmers and ranchers confronting day-to-day bovine health issues. Heather Smith Thomas, an expert on livestock with decades of first-hand experience, covers every routine situation — and many not-so-common problems — likely to arise on a cattle ranch or dairy farm. Three broad sections cover common diseases, ailments specific to certain body systems, and other ailments and injuries.


Your Calf

Your Calf

Author: Heather Smith Thomas

Publisher: Storey Publishing

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0882669478

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Offers information and advice on selecting, feeding, housing, caring for, breeding, and showing both beef and dairy cattle.


Flying Start Handbook

Flying Start Handbook

Author: Gemma Chuck

Publisher:

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780646982731

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Successful calf rearing is a fine balance of attention to detail in all thespecific areas of a calf rearing system. Recognising this is the first step toensure your calves stay healthy, grow well and reach their full geneticpotential. There are no two herds the same and as a result, blanketrecommendations are not always appropriate or relevant to your individualsituation.The Flying Start Handbook provides basic fundamental principles in eachspecific calf rearing section, to help lay the foundations for successfullyrearing calves. The sections cover a summary of each topic in an easy-to-useone-page format, including high-resolution photographs and graphics.The Flying Start Handbook is designed to complement tailored advice fromyour veterinarian in order to achieve the best possible outcome for you andyour calves.Give your calves a Flying Start!


Calving Management and Newborn Calf Care

Calving Management and Newborn Calf Care

Author: João Simões

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-08-28

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 3030681688

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This comprehensive textbook provides detailed information on calving management in dairy and beef cattle. Enriched with diverse learning opportunities, it conveys the fundamentals of reproductive anatomy and physiology, parturition, birth complications and various obstetrical manoeuvres, as well as dam and calf care. In order to promote best practices in this specialized subject, the book covers all significant points from conception to calving and the perinatal period. Clear chapter structures, a wealth of illustrations and videos, obstetrical case studies, and question-and-answer lists round out the reading experience, making the book a unique source of information on how to support mother cows and obtain viable offspring. In addition, readers can download the free Springer Nature Flashcards App and benefit from 77 digital study questions to test their knowledge. Calving is a significant event in terms of providing care and nutrition for mother cows and calves. The reproductive health status in cattle farms is crucial to immediately initiate lactation and new conception. Assistance by technical personnel, dystocia and stillbirth occurrences can reach ca. 50%, 14% and 6% of parturitions, respectively. Hence, zootechnical and veterinary management of calving is of great importance for animal welfare. This textbook makes a valuable contribution to teaching and everyday practice in cattle medicine and obstetrics. Veterinary students, residents, practitioners and technical personnel will discover it to be a rich learning and reference resource.


Handbook of Livestock Management

Handbook of Livestock Management

Author: Richard A. Battaglia

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 666

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Discusses a wide range of species and topics, showing step-by-step how to perform the skills and techniques essential for those in animal management. Taking a hands-on approach, it reflects the author's authoritative experience and emphasizes how to maintain and maximize an animal's well-being and productivity. Over 800 illustrations, external parts and skeletal drawings, and new photographs offer readers a close look at each species and each livestock management technique. Features chapters on beef cattle, dairy cattle, swine, horses, sheep, goats, poultry, livestock restraint and herd health. Covers all aspects of each species from breeding and conception through their complete lifecycle. Recommends techniques that are best for both the livestock manager and the animal. Provides cautionary notes at appropriate danger points with each step-by-step procedure. Follows a predictable format that includes an introduction to each technique, lists of necessary equipment, a discussion of required restraint, cautionary notes at appropriate danger points, a description of the normal recovery sequence, and a discussion of postprocedural management. Excellent for those involved in livestock management.


Calf Rearing

Calf Rearing

Author: John Moran

Publisher: Landlinks Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780643067660

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This work provides information on growth, nutrition, health and behaviour with descriptions of various calf raising systems and facilities. It also covers calf welfare, post weaning management and calf communication.


CalfWise Field Guide

CalfWise Field Guide

Author: The Vet Group

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09-30

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780648427186

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A practical handbook that holds the key information farmers need for calf health management.