Dairy herd health /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2012.
• Subjects: Dairy cattle > Health.; Agricultural Economics.; Dairy Animals.; Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000); Animal Nutrition (General); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries of Animals.; Meteorology and Climate.; Pollution and Degradation.; Milk and Dairy Produce.; Cattle.; Animal breeding.; Animal health.; Animal husbandry.; Animal nutrition.; Bacterial diseases.; Bovine mastitis.; Cattle feeding.; Climate change.; Cows.; Dairy cattle.; Dairy cows.; Dairy farming.; Dairy herds.; Dairy performance.; Diagnosis.; Disease control.; Disease prevalence.; Disease prevention.; Environmental impact.; Food security.; Genetics.; Infectious diseases.; Lameness.; Mastitis.; Milk.; Milk quality.; Nutritional disorders.; Pollution.; Rearing techniques.; Replacement rate.; Reproduction.; Reproductive efficiency.; Reproductive performance.; Reproductive traits.; Therapy.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book is comprised of 9 chapters focusing on dairy cattle disease prevention at the herd level. Topics covered include concepts in dairy herd health, facilitating change in herd health, rearing youngstock and replacing cows, managing herd reproduction, mastitis control and milk quality enhancement, lameness control, control of infectious diseases, nutritional management of herd health and dairy farming, food security and environmental issues. Appendices on sample sizes and disease prevalence estimates as well as on genetics and herd health are provided.