Bovine Medicine

Thoroughly updated to reflect dramatic changes in the industry, Bovine Medicine, 3rd Edition, offers practicing large animal veterinarians and veterinary students the most comprehensive reference to the core aspects of contemporary cattle health and husbandry available today.

Featuring contributions from acknowledged experts from the UK and abroad, the new edition provides a wealth of relevant and practical information for the cattle practitioner which supports modern practice and industry needs. Accessibly written chapters offer in–depth coverage of all facets of modern–day cattle practice and education, professional and clinical skills, and dairy and beef cattle herd health. Provides information on such technical skills as performing an on–farm post–mortem, selecting appropriate antimicrobials, and optimising pain management. Other non–technical skills reflecting modern practice and industry needs are addressed including marketing and business organisation, population medicine, herd health management planning, and more.

Combining accessibility with an unprecedented breadth of coverage, Bovine Medicine, 3rd Edition, represents an invaluable resource for practitioners and a definitive reference for veterinary students.

Contributors

Preface

Section 1: Modern Cattle Practice

1 Sustainability and One Health
Jude L. Capper

2 Modern cattle practice: a blue print for the future
Jos P Noordhuizen

3 Education and cattle practice: What do we do? What should we do?
Peter D. Cockcroft

4 Evidence–based veterinary medicine and clinical audits in cattle practice
Peter D. Cockcroft

5 Practice–based clinical research
Mark A. Holmes

6 Expert witness
Paul Roger

Section 2 Practice management and professional skills

7 Practice Management – Developing a progressive veterinary practice
Peter Orpin

8 Veterinary leadership and communication skills
Michelle McArthur, Adele Feakes

9 Marketing, Promotion and Farmer Education
Peter Orpen

10 Veterinary equipment and ambulatory practice
Karin Mueller

11 The Practice Laboratory
Allan Kessell

12 Safety: handling and restraint of cattle
Mandi Carr

Section 3: Clinical Skills

13 Herd Health Investigations in Cattle Practice
Cheryl L. Waldner , John R. Campbell

14 Diagnosis and clinical reasoning in cattle practice
Peter Cockcroft

15 Special diagnostic procedures
Phil Scott, Peter Cockcroft

16 Bovine Haematology and Biochemistry
Allan Kessell

17 Post mortem examination and sample taking in cattle
Elizabeth McInnes

18 Microbiology for cattle practitioners
Bryan Markey

19 Epidemiology: the important concepts
Michael P Reichel

20 Biosecurity
Wayne Boardman

21 Applied clinical parasitology for cattle practitioners
Mike Taylor

22 Cattle poisoning: principles of toxicological investigations
Jo Payne, Chris Livesey, Alan Murphy

23 Antimicrobial Selection in Cattle Practice
Peter Cockcroft

24 Pain management in cattle practice
Peter Cockcroft

25 Bull Health and Breeding Soundness
Peter Chenoweth

26 Euthanasia of Cattle
Karin Mueller

Section 4: Herd Health

27 Important national and international diseases of cattle
Micahel P. Reichel, Charles Caraguel

28 Population medicine and herd health planning
Nigel B Cook

29 Welfare and cattle behaviour
Clive Phillips

30 Rumen Health in the dairy cow
Dai Grove–White

31 Genetics for the bovine practitioner
Nicholas N Jonsson, Emily K Piper

32 Abortion and perinatal mortality in cattle
Richard D. Richard D Murray

Section 5: Dairy Cattle Herd Health

33 The prevalence and cost of important endemic diseases and fertility in dairy herds in the UK
Alastair Macrae, Richard Esslemont

34 Dairy Cow Housing Audit
Chris Watson

35 Cattle Signs
Kiro Petrovski

36 The farm audit: health and management of the calf
Katrine Bazeley

37 Heifer rearing weaning to second calving: optimising health and productivity
Peter Cockcroft

38 The Farm Audit: Health and Management of the Transition Cow
Ian J. Lean

39 The farm audit: clinical dairy cow nutrition
Thomas A. Chamberlain

40 The farm audit: udder health, mastitis milk quality and production
Andrew Biggs

41 The farm audit: foot health, lameness and footcare
Nick Bell

42 Reproductive technologies: on farm applications
Tim Parkinson

43 Optimising herd fertility: the farm audit
Rob Smith

44 A Hazards Analysis Critical Control Point Approach to Improving Reproductive Performance in Lactating Dairy Cows
J Lean, AR Rabiee, N Moss

45 Practice–based Dairy Health Planning and Plans
Jonathan ME Statham

46 Organic dairy farms
Kathryn Ellis

Section 6 Beef Cattle Herd Health

47 Beef suckler cow diseases: monitoring and surveillance
Phil Scott

48 Beef suckler herd health: key intervention points
Phil Scott

49 Auditing Beef Cow Herd Reproduction
George Caldow, Iain Riddell

50 Farm Audit Replacement beef heifers
Robert L. Larson, DVM

51 Cattle Housing: design and management
Jamie Robertson

52 Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD): diagnosis, prevention and control
Peter Cockcroft

53 Farm audit of beef cattle nutrition
Colin Morgan

54 Audit of semi–intensive beef finishing systems
Peter Cockcroft

55 Beef cattle feedlots how to measure, manage and monitor
Mandi Carr

56 Organic beef farms
Kathryn Ellis

57 Marketing Beef Cattle Practice
Brad J. Brad J. White

Appendix 1 Vade Mecum Cattle Diseases
Kiro Petrovski

Peter Cockcroft is Professor of Ruminant Health at the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia. He has a Diploma in Cattle Health and Production from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and is a Diplomate of the European College of Bovine Health Management. He is European College Veterinary Specialist in Bovine Health Management. Peter has published extensively in the field of bovine medicine and is known for his work in evidence–based veterinary practice.