Essential Guide to Calving

ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CALVING: Giving Your Beef and Dairy Herd a Healthy Start  

Every Cattle Farmer - from the keeper of a family milk cow to the rancher overseeing a large herd - will gain confidence and control by becoming more knowledgeable about calving. Healthy pregnancies, safe births, and thriving calves are critical to every cattle operation, and in remote farm locations, the veterinarian is not always readily available. Even if the vet is nearby, the farm's finances will be healthier if the farmer can oversee most of the calving process.Heather Smith Thomas, an expert on live- stock with decades of firsthand experience, covers every routine situation likely to arise before, during, and after calving. And when the calving process is out of the ordinary, Thomas guides the farmer through pregnancy problems, difficult deliveries, recognizing when to call in a vet, and postpartum complications. Her thorough coverage of what to expect in every situation gives farmers the knowledge they need to care personally for their cows. The second half of the book is dedicated to ensuring that every calf gets off to a healthy start. Thomas helps farmers work with cows reluctant to nurse, substitute mothers, and frail calves. A complete chapter on calf-hood illnesses explains warning signs and offers tips on prevention and treatment. As people return to farming in growing numbers, the demand for safe, humane livestock knowledge continues to increase. Farmers will turn to this reliable volume again and again as they welcome each new calf.  

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Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle 

Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle

Dairying once again finds itself at a crossroads. Increasingly, producers and scientists need to harness their knowledge and expertise to meet consumers' demands for quality milk and milk products. This volume discusses how the industry can meet the needs of today's consumer. Scientists, producers, processors and marketer's together with those interested in the wider issues of biotechnology and the environment, present their views on six key areas of debate: cows for lifetime production; management for lifetime production; feeds and feeding; opportunities and impact; identifying the right model for accurate prediction of production; marketing - the myth against milk. The book concludes with a chapter looking at customers and consumers health.

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No-Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture (Cabi Publishing)

No-Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture

No-Tillage Seeding in Conservation Agriculture (Cabi Publishing)

This book is much-expanded and updated edition of a previous volume, published in 1996 as "No-tillage Seeding: Science and Practice". The base objective remains to describe, in lay terms, a range of international experiments designed to examine the causes of successes and failures in no-tillage. The book summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of no tillage. It highlights the pros and cons of a range of features and options, without promoting any particular product. This work describes: soil carbon and how its retention or sequestration interacts with tillage and no-tillage; controlled traffic farming as an adjunct to no-tillage; comparison of the performance of generic no-tillage opener designs; the role of banding fertilizer in no-tillage; the economics of no-tillage; small-scale equipment used by poorer farmers; forage cropping by no-tillage; and a method for risk assessment of different levels of machine sophistication.

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The Veterinary Book for Sheep Farmers 

The Veterinary Book for Sheep Farmers (Hardcover)

This book is much-expanded and updated edition of a previous volume, published in 1996 as "No-tillage Seeding: Science and Practice". The base objective remains to describe, in lay terms, a range of international experiments designed to examine the causes of successes and failures in no-tillage. The book summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of no tillage. It highlights the pros and cons of a range of features and options, without promoting any particular product. This work describes: soil carbon and how its retention or sequestration interacts with tillage and no-tillage; controlled traffic farming as an adjunct to no-tillage; comparison of the performance of generic no-tillage opener designs; the role of banding fertilizer in no-tillage; the economics of no-tillage; small-scale equipment used by poorer farmers; forage cropping by no-tillage; and a method for risk assessment of different levels of machine sophistication.

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Organic Vegetable Production: A Complete Guide 

Organic Vegetable Production: A Complete Guide 

Organic Vegetable Production" provides and invaluable, practical guide to the production of organic vegetables across a range of organic farming systems in temperate areas. The book covers all aspects of production, including crop choice, fertility building and weed, pest and disease management within a framework of rotation design and business planning. The specific needs of a range of commonly grown vegetable crops are discussed in detail. The authors consider that knowledge-gathering, marketing and financial management are integral parts of organic vegetable production and these subjects are examined in depth. Speciality topics as protected cropping and storage are covered. The book highlights the technical and economic consequences of converting from conventional to organic production and the challenges that can arise. The editors and authors of this book are all experts in their field and work as part of the Organic Horticulture Programme of the Henry Doubleday Research Association near Coventry, a charitable body dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food.

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How to Raise Pigs 

How to Raise Pigs

Pigs were once known as "mortgage lifters", a term that endeared them to small farmers everywhere. Even today, you can write and cash a cheque on a piece of pigskin. Whether you want a pig on your property for pleasure or profit, small scale or large, this is the book you must have. From the first consideration of choosing a breed to putting bacon and sausages on the table, this approachable and authoritative guide covers every facet of raising pigs. What are the advantages of raising pigs small-scale? What does it take in terms of resources, time, shelter, feed, healthcare? All these questions and more are dealt with by Hash eider, in step-by-step, down to earth writing, for a hobby, a business, or just to have one or two porcine characters around the farmyard. Also included is a glossary of terms, list of resources, and information about pork organizations, regulations, ordinances.

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A Practical Manual of Beekeeping: How to Keep Bees and Develop Your Full Potential as an Apiarist 

A Practical Manual of Beekeeping: How to Keep Bees and Develop Your Full Potential as an Apiarist

A fascinating hobby; a remunerative business; or a globe-trotting career? Which type of beekeeper do you want to be? It is entirely up to you: beekeeping can provide it all. Beekeeping can provide anyone with an interesting and useful hobby or a lucrative and rewarding business. It is recognised as a vital agricultural industry and can therefore also offer you a globe trotting career. The whole subject is, however, often shrouded in mystery and loaded with jargon, leaving many people unaware of its true potential or how to start. This book strips away all the mystery and explains step by step how - from day one - you can start beekeeping as a hobby; how you can progress to running a beekeeping business; or how you can start a career as a beekeeper which can quite easily take you all over the world. No other guide explains in such detail the true potential and accessibility of beekeeping or of being a beekeeper.

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Keeping Chickens: The Essential Guide to Enjoying and Getting the Best from Chickens 

Keeping Chickens: The Essential Guide to Enjoying and Getting the Best from Chickens 

This is a solid, practical, everything-you-need-to-know guide to keeping chickens for people who are as interested in them as pets as they are in eggs and other poultry produce. It reveals how, as well as being useful, chickens are interesting and colourful characters that can enliven any garden. They become very tame and make good companions. It includes chapters on using feathers and eggs in art and craft projects, as well as delicious egg recipes. It fuses contemporary design, imaginative and appealing images and lively, authoritative text to ensure the widest possible interest.