Calf Health and Rearing Books Beef Calf Books 

Discusses the advantages and disadvantages of raising beef, and provides practical advice on selecting, feeding, caring for, and butchering cattle.

This work provides information on growth, nutrition, health and behaviour with descriptions of various calf raising systems and facilities. It also covers calf welfare, post weaning management and calf communication. Practical economic information on feedstuffs, labour requirements and losses is provided to assist producers in selecting the most appropriate calf rearing system for their farms. This updated second edition includes improvements to existing calf rearing systems, important changes in recommendations for colostrum feeding, disease prevention, what to do with sick calves, dairy beef production, economics of calf rearing, and best management practice for raising dairy replacement heifers.

This volume considers every aspect of calf rearing, from physiological principles to practical systems. Topics include physiology of growth and digestion, nutrient requirements, health and welfare, and lifetime performance. More than half of the authors are from outside the UK and all are acknowledged as international experts in their field. This book is aimed at the technical advisers, researchers, extension workers, veterinary practitioners, progressive farmers, academics and students.

Essentially a veterinary surgeon, the author has always specialized in obstetrics. Appalled at the damage done by existing "brute force" calving methods, he pioneered caesarean section in 1945 - a technique now practised throughout the world. He followed this up with a study of natural bovine birth. The results of this study and the techniques which evovled from it form the basis of this book. This fifth edition features a concise, clear text built around a large number of specially taken photographs.

Eddie Straiton is the world's outstanding communicator of veterinary procedures and animal care. He earned the title 'TV Vet' from the long series of television programmes in which he brilliantly demonstrated animal husbandry to a wide audience. Eddie has recently been awarded and OBE for his contribution to agriculture and veterinary science.

Rearing calves into heifers is a major investment in terms of money and labour. Your dual aims are to turn your heifer into a strong, productive dairy cow and to use labour, housing and feed efficiently. If you achieve these aims, you'll cut the costs of rearing per kilogram of milk. From calf to heifer covers the basics of successful rearing, shows you how to control risks and helps you to structure your work so that each calf automatically receives the best treatment. Calf to heifer is full of sensible tips on how to improve the rearing of calves and yearlings. Written clearly and illustrated with useful photos and Marleen Feliuss splendid drawings, this informative handbook is very user-friendly and down to earth. If you have interest in training, click here below on 'Jan Hulsen', the author of From calf to heifer.