Bovine practice 2 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Philadelphia :
W.B. Saunders,
[1998]
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| Series: | In practice handbooks series.
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Table of Contents:
- The Milking machine and mastitis / P.W. Edmondson
- Introduction
- Components of the milking machine
- Milking systems
- Factors affecting the incidence of mastitis
- Machine maintenance
- Teat disinfection in dairy herds / R.W. Blowey and P.W. Edmondson
- Post milking teat disinfection
- Pre-milking teat disinfection
- Dip or spray? Teat disinfection products
- Induction of parturition / T.J. Parkinson
- Principles of inducing parturition
- Induction of abortion
- Induction in the last trimester of pregnancy or near full term
- Management of induced cows and premature calves
- Benefits of the technique.
- Intravenous fluid therapy in the neonatal calf / D.H. Grove-White
- Indications for fluid therapy
- Source of fluids
- Fluid composition
- Fluid administrtration-what rate and how much?
- Prognosis
- Diseases of the digit: description of common lesions / R.W. Blowey
- White line abscess
- Foreign body penetration of the sole
- Sole ulceration
- Sole haemorrhage
- Interdigital skin hyperplasia
- Interdigital necrobacillosis
- Digital dermatitis
- Heel erosion (slurry heel)
- Vertical sandcrack.
- Horizontal fissures (horizontal sandcracks)
- Fracture of the third phalanx
- Diseases of the digit hoof care and factors influencing the incidence of lameness / R.W. Blowey
- Processes of hoof overgraowth
- Hoof trimming the four stages
- Hoof dressing and surgical shoes
- Factors affecting the incidence of lameness
- Differental diagnosis of common skin disorders / P.G.G. Jackson
- Approach to the differental diagnosis
- Causes of bovine skin disease
- Special diagnostic procedures
- Differental diagnosis of respiratory disease in adult cattle / R. Dalgleish
- Diseases of groups of animals
- Diseases of the individual animal.
- Bovine botulism / T.O. Jones
- Epidemiology
- Pathogenesis
- Clinical findings
- Differental diagnosis
- Confirmation of diagnosis
- Treatment
- Prophylaxis
- Human safety
- Differental diagnosis of lesions of the male genital tract / T.J. Parkinson
- Lesions associated with failure to mount
- Lesions resulting in failure of intromission
- Lesions associated with failure to fertilize
- Umbilical hernias and infections in calves / G.B. Edwards
- Anatomy
- Umbilical hernias.
- Surgical treatment of uncomplicated umbilical hernias
- Repair of very large hernias using prosthetic materials
- Chronic umbilical infections
- Surgical treatment of chronic umbilical infections
- Management of a herd outbreak of salmonellosis / P.R. Scott
- Aetiology
- Clinical signs
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Control
- Prevention.