| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 363 pages) : illustrations (some color |
| Contents |
Management considerations from parturition to the end of the voluntary waiting period to optimize health and reproductive performance -- Nutritional management of the prepartum dairy cow -- Calving management: a team approach -- Monitoring health and looking for sick cows -- Nutritional management of lactating dairy cows -- Reproductive management in dairy cows -- Reproductive management of lactating dairy cows for first postpartum insemination -- Applications of ultrasonography in dairy cattle reproductive management -- Resynchronization of estrus, ovulation, and timed insemination in lactating dairy cows -- Diseases that affect the reproductive performance of dairy cattle -- Infectious reproductive diseases -- Economics of reproductive performance -- Managing reproduction during heat stress in dairy cows -- Immunology and vaccination of dairy cattle -- Management of dairy calves from birth to weaning -- Nutritional management of dairy heifers -- Management strategies to optimize reproductive efficiency in dairy heifers -- Managing mastitis and producing quality milk -- Lameness in dairy cattle -- Management strategies for optimizing forage quality for dairy production -- Applied statistical analyses for dairy production -- Dairy records analysis and evaluation of performance -- Managing people in today's production dairy environment -- Practical genetics -- Euthanasia techniques for dairy cattle -- Managing herd health in organic herds |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Dairy farming
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Dairying
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Dairy cattle -- Diseases
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Risco, Carlos A
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Melendez, Pedro
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Wiley InterScience (Online service)
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| ISBN |
9780470960554 (electronic bk.) |
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0470960558 (electronic bk.) |
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