Dairy Herd Health [Kietas viršelis]

For veterinary surgeons and students, agricultural consultants, and farm managers, Green (veterinary medicine, U. of Nottingham, UK) compiles nine chapters that take a population level and evidence-based approach to disease prevention, investigation, and control in dairy herds. Veterinary specialists from Europe and Canada cover key areas to help readers start herd health programs or re-evaluate and improve their approach. They detail the concepts of herd health; how to facilitate changes on dairy farms, including interactions between the advisor and the farm staff, the ability to communicate and modify day-to-day habits, and working as a team; rearing youngstock and replacing cows; managing reproduction; controlling mastitis and enhancing milk quality; controlling lameness and infectious disease; managing nutrition; and how dairy farming influences food security and the environment. They do not address the diagnosis and treatment of individual cows or the pathology of specific diseases, but instead focus on methods and indices for monitoring cow health, evaluating and interpreting herd patterns of disease, and implementing herd-level control strategies. Distributed in the US by Stylus Publishing. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)