Handbook of Calf Health and Management: A Guide to Best Practice Care for Calves

✍ Scribed by Sophie Mahendran MS

• Publisher: 5m Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A guide to calf management authored by vets who also have their own herd. The focus is on rearing an animal with optimal health for enhanced productivity with a focus on welfare and best practice. The book employs a lifecycle approach to management, seeing the calf through the pre-partum period to 4 months of age. Topics covered include feeding strategies and feeding behaviour, hygiene, weaning, grazing, husbandry advice, and disease management. The approach throughout is of animal and keeper working together. The information presented has a solid research foundation and is evidence-based and up-to-date. Practical tips from the authors' own experience are also included.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
1. Pregnancy and the pre-partum environment
2. Calving
3. Colostrum management
4. Calf housing and the environment
5. Feeding the pre-weaned calf
6. Monitoring growth and the weaning period
7. Care of the post-weaning calf
8. Calf health management
9. Dairy sourced beef
10. Economics of calf rearing
Appendix
Index