DESCRIPTION:
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
CONTENTS:
Section I: Modern Cattle Practice
1. Sustainability and One Health
2. Modern Cattle Practice: a Blueprint for the Future
3. Education and Cattle Practice: `What Do We Do? What Should We Do?
4. Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine and Clinical Audits in Cattle Practice
5. Practice-Based Clinical Research
6. ExpertWitness
Section II: Practice Management and Professional Skills
7. Practice Management -Developing a Progressive Veterinary Practice
8. Veterinary Leadership and Communication Skills
9. Marketing, Promotion and Farmer Education
10. Veterinary Equipment in Ambulatory Practice
11. The Practice Laboratory
12. Safety: Handling and Restraint of Cattle
Section III: Clinical Skills
13. Herd Health Investigations in Cattle Practice
14. Diagnosis and Clinical Reasoning in Cattle Practice
15. Special Diagnostic Procedures
16. Bovine Haematology and Biochemistry
17. Post-Mortem Examination and Sample Taking in Cattle
18. Microbiology for Cattle Practitioners
19. Epidemiology: the Important Concepts
20. Biosecurity
21. Applied Clinical Parasitology for Cattle Practitioners
22. Cattle Poisoning: Principles of Toxicological Investigations
23. Antimicrobial Selection in Cattle Practice
24. Pain Management in Cattle Practice
25. Bull Health and Breeding Soundness
26. Euthanasia of Cattle
Section IV: Herd Health
27. Important National and International Diseases of Cattle
28. Population Medicine and Herd Health Planning
29. Welfare and Cattle Behaviour
30. Rumen Health in the Dairy Cow
31. Genetics for the Bovine Practitioner
32. Abortion and Perinatal Mortality in Cattle
Section V: Dairy Cattle Herd Health
33. The Prevalence and Cost of Important Endemic Diseases and Fertility in Dairy Herds in the UK
34. Dairy Cow Housing Audit
35. Cattle Signs
36. The Farm Audit: Health and Management of the Calf
37. Heifer Rearing,Weaning to Second Calving: Optimising Health and Productivity
38. The Farm Audit: Health and Management of the Transition Cow
39. The Farm Audit: Clinical Dairy Cow Nutrition
40. The Farm Audit: Udder Health, Mastitis Milk Quality and Production
41. The Farm Audit: Foot Health, Lameness and Footcare
42. Reproductive Technologies: On-Farm Applications
43. Optimising Herd Fertility: the Farm Audit
44. A Hazards Analysis Critical Control Point Approach to Improving Reproductive Performance in Lactating Dairy Cows
45. Practice-Based Dairy Health Planning and Plans
46. Organic Dairy Farms
Section VI: Beef Cattle Herd Health
47. Beef Suckler Cow Diseases: Monitoring and Surveillance
48. Beef Suckler Herd Health: Key Intervention Points
49. Auditing Beef Cow Herd Reproduction
50. Farm Audit -Replacement Beef Heifers
51. Cattle Housing: Design and Management
52. Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD): Diagnosis, Prevention and Control
53. Farm Audit of Beef Cattle Nutrition
54. Audit of Semi-Intensive Beef Finishing Systems
55. Beef Cattle Feedlots -How to Measure, Manage and Monitor
56. Organic Beef Farms
57. Marketing Beef Cattle Practice
Appendix I Vade Mecum of Cattle Conditions
