Herd Health Food Animal Production Medicine

By Otto M. Radostits

Herd Health offers integrated coverage of all aspects of herd animals-dairy and beef cattle, calves, sheep, and swine-in one volume. It provides effective new strategies for herd health management. It gives veterinary students the basic knowledge and framework for production-oriented animal health management and also gives veterinary practitioners information to provide animal health management services to every segment of the livestock industry.Integrates veterinary medicine, animal husbandry, nutrition and housing, and animal welfare as they relate to production management.Acquaints veterinarians with economical programs that allow for the most effective production of healthy livestock, resulting in the best-quality food products.
Offers an invaluable grasp of crucial issues such as how to avoid contamination of meat and milk with antimicrobial residues, antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, growth-enhancing hormones, and other potential health hazards.Includestimely information on control of infectious diseases; dairy genetics, culling, and how to deal with mastitis; effects of housing and environment; and optimal reproductive performance and calf survival.A team of contributors who are authorities in their areas of specialization have thoroughly rewritten and updated each chapter to reflect current practice and research.New chapter on investigation of disease outbreaks in herds helps veterinarians learn to diagnose and resolve disease outbreaks or reverse downward trends in productivity.Superb revision of chapter on quantitative tools for herd health management combines statistics, diagnostic text evaluation, economics, decision theory and methods, and evaluation to help veterinarians understand how health and productivity can be measured and monitored and how they can use these measurements to help their clients make financially productive decisions about managing their farms.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721676944
• ISBN13: 9780721676944
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Saunders
• Length: 884 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 1.5" x 9.0"