Main 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:

Contributors vii Preface ix Section I: Modern Cattle Practice 1 Sustainability and One Health 3 Judith L. Capper 2 Modern Cattle Practice: a Blueprint for the Future 11 Jos P. Noordhuizen 3 Education and Cattle Practice: What Do We Do? What Should We Do? 26 Peter D. Cockcroft 4 Evidence-Based Veterinary Medicine and Clinical Audits in Cattle Practice 41 Peter D. Cockcroft 5 Practice-Based Clinical Research 49 Mark A. Holmes 6 ExpertWitness 55 Paul Roger Section II: Practice Management and Professional Skills 7 Practice Management Developing a Progressive Veterinary Practice 63 Peter Orpin 8 Veterinary Leadership and Communication Skills 69 Michelle McArthur and Adele Feakes 9 Marketing, Promotion and Farmer Education 77 Peter Orpin 10 Veterinary Equipment in Ambulatory Practice 85 Karin Mueller 11 The Practice Laboratory 97 Allan Kessell 12 Safety: Handling and Restraint of Cattle 110 Mandi Carr Section III: Clinical Skills 13 Herd Health Investigations in Cattle Practice 117 Cheryl L.Waldner and John R. Campbell 14 Diagnosis and Clinical Reasoning in Cattle Practice 124 Peter D. Cockcroft 15 Special Diagnostic Procedures 132 Phil Scott and Peter D. Cockcroft 16 Bovine Haematology and Biochemistry 145 Allan Kessell 17 Post-Mortem Examination and Sample Taking in Cattle 160 Elizabeth F. McInnes 18 Microbiology for Cattle Practitioners 174 Bryan Markey 19 Epidemiology: the Important Concepts 183 Michael P. Reichel 20 Biosecurity 188 Wayne Boardman 21 Applied Clinical Parasitology for Cattle Practitioners 197 Mike Taylor 22 Cattle Poisoning: Principles of Toxicological Investigations 210 Jo Payne, Chris Livesey and AlanMurphy 23 Antimicrobial Selection in Cattle Practice 224 Peter D. Cockcroft 24 Pain Management in Cattle Practice 237 Peter D. Cockcroft 25 Bull Health and Breeding Soundness 246 Peter Chenoweth 26 Euthanasia of Cattle 262 Karin Mueller Section IV: Herd Health 27 Important National and International Diseases of Cattle 273 Michael P Reichel and Charles Caraguel 28 Population Medicine and Herd Health Planning 280 Nigel B. Cook 29 Welfare and Cattle Behaviour 291 Clive Phillips 30 Rumen Health in the Dairy Cow 297 Dai Grove-White 31 Genetics for the Bovine Practitioner 305 Nicholas N. Jonsson and Emily K. Piper 32 Abortion and Perinatal Mortality in Cattle 312 Richard D. Murray Section V: Dairy Cattle Herd Health 33 The Prevalence and Cost of Important Endemic Diseases and Fertility in Dairy Herds in the UK 325 Alastair Macrae and Richard Esslemont 34 Dairy Cow Housing Audit 338 ChrisWatson 35 Cattle Signs 347 Kiro Petrovski 36 The Farm Audit: Health and Management of the Calf 360 Katrine Bazeley 37 Heifer Rearing,Weaning to Second Calving: Optimising Health and Productivity 373 Peter D. Cockcroft 38 The Farm Audit: Health and Management of the Transition Cow 381 Ian J. Lean and Peter J. DeGaris 39 The Farm Audit: Clinical Dairy Cow Nutrition 388 Thomas A. Chamberlain 40 The Farm Audit: Udder Health, Mastitis Milk Quality and Production 396 Andrew Biggs 41 The Farm Audit: Foot Health, Lameness and Footcare 406 Nick Bell 42 Reproductive Technologies: On-Farm Applications 418 Tim Parkinson 43 Optimising Herd Fertility: the Farm Audit 436 Rob Smith 44 A Hazards Analysis Critical Control Point Approach to Improving Reproductive Performance in Lactating Dairy Cows 450 I.J. Lean, A.R. Rabiee and N. Moss 45 Practice-Based Dairy Health Planning and Plans 465 Jonathan M.E. Statham 46 Organic Dairy Farms 476 Kathryn Ellis Section VI: Beef Cattle Herd Health 47 Beef Suckler Cow Diseases: Monitoring and Surveillance 489 Phil Scott 48 Beef Suckler Herd Health: Key Intervention Points 493 Phil Scott 49 Auditing Beef Cow Herd Reproduction 501 George Caldow and Iain Riddell 50 Farm Audit Replacement Beef Heifers 506 Robert L. Larson 51 Cattle Housing: Design and Management 517 Jamie Robertson 52 Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD): Diagnosis, Prevention and Control 525 Peter D. Cockcroft 53 Farm Audit of Beef Cattle Nutrition 531 Colin Morgan 54 Audit of Semi-Intensive Beef Finishing Systems 537 Peter D. Cockcroft 55 Beef Cattle Feedlots How to Measure, Manage and Monitor 543 Mandi Carr 56 Organic Beef Farms 549 Kathryn Ellis 57 Marketing Beef Cattle Practice 555 Brad J. White Appendix I Vade Mecum of Cattle Conditions 560 Kiro Petrovski Index 643