| Description |
1 online resource : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Veterinary services to sheep farms -- The sheep farm as a business -- The sheep farm as a production system -- Sheep farm products : wool, meat, skins and milk -- Genetics on the sheep farm -- The energy and protein nutrition of grazing sheep -- Reproductive management and diseases in naturally mated flocks -- Controlled breeding -- Helminth diseases of sheep -- Diseases of the integument and eye -- Deficiencies of trace elements and vitamins -- Management and diseases of weaner sheep -- Lameness -- Sudden death -- Diseases of the central nervous system -- Diseases of the alimentary tract -- Diseases of the liver -- Diseases of the urinary system -- Diseases of the blood and lymphatic system -- Diseases of the respiratory system |
| Summary |
This book is intended to be a reference text for veterinarians who provide clinical services to sheep producers. It is directed first and foremost at Australian sheep-raising systems, but the approaches described herein will have wide application in all countries where sheep are raised under extensive grazing conditions. Most of the important conditions of sheep in Australia are relatively straightforward to diagnose, but the establishment of effective and economically sound control strategies is often the most difficult part of health management, particularly for those who are less familiar with sheep production systems. With six initial chapters focusing on providing readers with a basic understanding of the business and science underpinning sheep production, this book focuses its remaining chapters on reproduction and disease conditions, ordered largely on a systems basis. The book provides details about the way disease processes develop and manifest in sheep flocks, with numerous references for those who wish to read further. Australian sheep production is a profitable and fulfilling agricultural pursuit for a large number of farm owners, and this book is intended to assist those who work in the industry to add to the profitability and efficiency of sheep production systems, the quality of sheep products and the welfare of the sheep in those systems |
| Analysis |
sheep medicine |
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veterinary medicine |
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wool farming |
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sheepmeat production |
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sheep disease |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sheep -- Diseases.
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Sheep farming.
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Veterinary medicine.
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Sheep Diseases
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Veterinary Medicine
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veterinary medicine.
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Veterinary medicine: large animals (domestic -- farm)
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Medical -- Veterinary Medicine.
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Sheep -- Diseases
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Sheep farming
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Veterinary medicine
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781925261783 |
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1925261786 |
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