Understanding the Dairy Cow

by Webster (Author)

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  Paperback
  1987

  $3.24

  Good husbandry can only be based on proper scientific understanding of how cows function. This book sets out the scientific principles underlying the animals' body system and shows how it is possible, indeed essential, to manage dairy cattle at maximum economic efficiency and at the same time give due regard for their welfare. The value of dairy produce in both the underdeveloped and developed world should makes this book of interest to undergraduate students, those teaching animal husbandry and a wider general audience.

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $6.56

  In this second edition several chapters have been extensively revised or re-written. The introduction develops the theme of the role of animals (especially the dairy cow) in sustained agricultural systems. New material is included on buffer feeding, wholecrop cereals and feeding by-products as straights , along with a complete explanation of the new Metabolisable Protein System adopted as the UK standard in 1992. New problems associated with BST and BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) are explained and a new chapter on breeding critically examines the practice, principles and limits of genetic improvement by multiple ovulation, embryo transfer and cloning. The book ends with a review of future developments in dairy cow husbandry ranging from the use of robotics to allow cows almost complete control of their own environment to the use of intermediate technology to roll back the major constraints on dairy production in the tropics.