Principles of cattle production /

• Main Author: Phillips, C. J. C., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Edition: 2nd edition.
• Subjects: Cattle.; Dairy Animals.; Meat Producing Animals.; Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000); Food Contamination, Residues and Toxicology.; Animal production.; Beef cattle.; Cattle farming.; Dairy cattle.; Environmental impact.; Environmental protection.; Food safety.; Reproduction.
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This edition presents a vision for a new cattle industry: an industry that will contribute to the environment, to the welfare of cattle and to the provision of high-quality food for an increasingly demanding world population. The book covers the principles of cattle reproduction, describing the late...

Table of Contents:

• The Development of the World's Cattle Production Systems
• Cattle Production and the Environment
• Cattle Production Systems
• Breeding and Reproduction
• Welfare, Health and Diseases
• Housing, Handling and the Environment for Cattle
• Nutrient Requirements and Metabolic Diseases
• Feeding Methods
• Grazing Management and Systems
• The Future Role and Practice of Cattle Farming.