
Bovine Medicine.
Title:
Bovine Medicine.
Author:
Cockcroft, Peter.
ISBN:
9781118948521
Personal Author:
Edition:
3rd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (664 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Section I Modern Cattle Practice -- Chapter 1 Sustainability and One Health -- Chapter 2 Modern Cattle Practice: a Blueprint for the Future -- Chapter 3 Education and Cattle Practice: 'What Do We Do? What Should We Do?' -- Chapter 4 Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine and Clinical Audits in Cattle Practice -- Chapter 5 Practice-Based Clinical Research -- Chapter 6 Expert Witness -- Section II Practice Management and Professional Skills -- Chapter 7 Practice Management - Developing a Progressive Veterinary Practice -- Chapter 8 Veterinary Leadership and Communication Skills -- Chapter 9 Marketing, Promotion and Farmer Education -- Chapter 10 Veterinary Equipment in Ambulatory Practice -- Chapter 11 The Practice Laboratory -- Chapter 12 Safety: Handling and Restraint of Cattle -- Section III Clinical Skills -- Chapter 13 Herd Health Investigations in Cattle Practice -- Chapter 14 Diagnosis and Clinical Reasoning in Cattle Practice -- Chapter 15 Special Diagnostic Procedures -- Chapter 16 Bovine Haematology and Biochemistry -- Chapter 17 Post-Mortem Examination and Sample Taking in Cattle -- Chapter 18 Microbiology for Cattle Practitioners -- Chapter 19 Epidemiology: the Important Concepts -- Chapter 20 Biosecurity -- Chapter 21 Applied Clinical Parasitology for Cattle Practitioners -- Chapter 22 Cattle Poisoning: Principles of Toxicological Investigations -- Chapter 23 Antimicrobial Selection in Cattle Practice -- Chapter 24 Pain Management in Cattle Practice -- Chapter 25 Bull Health and Breeding Soundness -- Chapter 26 Euthanasia of Cattle -- Section IV Herd Health -- Chapter 27 Important National and International Diseases of Cattle -- Chapter 28 Population Medicine and Herd Health Planning.
Chapter 29 Welfare and Cattle Behaviour -- Chapter 30 Rumen Health in the Dairy Cow -- Chapter 31 Genetics for the Bovine Practitioner -- Chapter 32 Abortion and Perinatal Mortality in Cattle -- Section V Dairy Cattle Herd Health -- Chapter 33 The Prevalence and Cost of Important Endemic Diseases and Fertility in Dairy Herds in the UK -- Chapter 34 Dairy Cow Housing Audit -- Chapter 35 Cattle Signs -- Chapter 36 The Farm Audit: Health and Management of the Calf -- Chapter 37 Heifer Rearing, Weaning to Second Calving: Optimising Health and Productivity -- Chapter 38 The Farm Audit: Health and Management of the Transition Cow -- Chapter 39 The Farm Audit: Clinical Dairy Cow Nutrition -- Chapter 40 The Farm Audit: Udder Health, Mastitis Milk Quality and Production -- Chapter 41 The Farm Audit: Foot Health, Lameness and Footcare -- Chapter 42 Reproductive Technologies: On-Farm Applications -- Chapter 43 Optimising Herd Fertility: the Farm Audit -- Chapter 44 A Hazards Analysis Critical Control Point Approach to Improving Reproductive Performance in Lactating Dairy Cows -- Chapter 45 Practice-Based Dairy Health Planning and Plans -- Chapter 46 Organic Dairy Farms -- Section VI Beef Cattle Herd Health -- Chapter 47 Beef Suckler Cow Diseases: Monitoring and Surveillance -- Chapter 48 Beef Suckler Herd Health: Key Intervention Points -- Chapter 49 Auditing Beef Cow Herd Reproduction -- Chapter 50 Farm Audit - Replacement Beef Heifers -- Chapter 51 Cattle Housing: Design and Management -- Chapter 52 Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD): Diagnosis, Prevention and Control -- Chapter 53 Farm Audit of Beef Cattle Nutrition -- Chapter 54 Audit of Semi-Intensive Beef Finishing Systems -- Chapter 55 Beef Cattle Feedlots - How to Measure, Manage and Monitor -- Chapter 56 Organic Beef Farms.
Chapter 57 Marketing Beef Cattle Practice -- Appendix I Vade Mecum of Cattle Conditions -- Index -- EULA.
Abstract:
Thoroughly updated to reflect recent changes in the industry, Bovine Medicine, 3rd Edition, offers practicing large animal veterinarians and veterinary students a comprehensive reference to core aspects of contemporary cattle health and husbandry. New edition of a classic text, featuring thoroughly rewritten text, with coverage shifted to the core aspects of everyday cattle practice Includes new focus on both applied skills and application of knowledge, along with many more full-colour illustrations than in previous editions Represents a toolkit of skills that will support the delivery of contemporary cattle practice Presents a seamless integration of information on husbandry, nutrition, and disease Written by a wide range of experts from around the world.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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