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Bovine medicine /

"Bovine Medicine, 3rd Edition, offers practicing large animal veterinarians and veterinary students the most comprehensive reference to the core aspects of contemporary cattle health and husbandry available today"--Provided by publisher

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cockcroft, Peter D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015.
Edición:Third edition.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Modern cattle practice. Sustainability and one health
  • Modern cattle practice: a blueprint for the future
  • Education and cattle practice: 'what do we do? What should we do?'
  • Evidence-based veterinary medicine and clinical audits in cattle practice
  • Practice-based clinical research
  • Expert witness
  • Part II: Practice management and professional skills. Practice management
  • developing a progressive veterinary practice
  • Veterinary leadership and communication skills
  • Marketing, promotion and farmer education
  • Veterinary equipment in ambulatory practice
  • The practice laboratory
  • Safety: handling and restraint of cattle
  • Part III: Clinical skills. Herd health investigations in cattle practice
  • Diagnosis and clinical reasoning in cattle practice
  • Special diagnostic procedures
  • Bovine haematology and biochemistry
  • Post-mortem examination and sample taking in cattle
  • Microbiology for cattle practitioners
  • Epidemiology: the important concepts
  • Biosecurity
  • Applied clinical parasitology for cattle practitioners
  • Cattle poisoning: principles of toxicological investigations
  • Antimicrobial selection in cattle practice
  • Pain management in cattle practice
  • Bull health and breeding soundness
  • Euthanasia of cattle
  • Part IV: Herd health. Important national and international diseases of cattle
  • Population medicine and herd health planning
  • Welfare and cattle behaviour
  • Rumen health in the dairy cow
  • Genetics for the bovine practitioner
  • Abortion and perinatal mortality in cattle
  • Part V: Dairy cattle herd health. The prevalence and cost of important endemic diseases and fertility in dairy herds in the UK
  • Dairy cow housing audit
  • Cattle signs
  • The farm audit: health and management of the calf
  • Heifer rearing, weaning to second calving: optimising health and productivity
  • The farm audit: health and management of the transition cow
  • The farm audit: clinical dairy cow nutrition
  • The farm audit: udder health, mastitis milk quality and production
  • The farm audit: foot health, lameness and footcare
  • Reproductive technologies: on-farm applications
  • Optimising herd fertility: the farm audit
  • A hazards analysis critical control point approach to improving reproductive performance in lactating dairy cows
  • Practice-based dairy health planning and plans
  • Organic dairy farms
  • Part VI: Beef cattle herd health. Beef suckler cow diseases: monitoring and surveillance
  • Beef suckler herd health: key intervention points
  • Auditing beef cow herd reproduction
  • Farm audit
  • replacement beef heifers
  • Cattle housing: design and management
  • Bovine respiratory disease (BRD): diagnosis, prevention and control
  • Farm audit of beef cattle nutrition
  • Audit of semi-intensive beef finishing systems
  • Beef cattle feedlots
  • how to measure, manage and monitor
  • Organic beef farms
  • Marketing beef cattle practice
  • Vade mecum of cattle conditions.