This comprehensive book integrates new technology and concepts that have been developed in recent years to manage dairy farms in a profitable manner. Dairy Production Medicine is an essential resource for all those involved in the dairy industry.

Coverage includes:

• nutrition, reproduction, clinical medicine, genetics, pathology, epidemiology, human resource management and economics
• production cycle of the dairy cow covering critical points in cow management
• up-to-date resource for all those involved in the dairy industry
• new technology and concepts that have been developed in recent years to manage dairy farms in a profitable manner

Contents

1. Management Considerations from Parturition to the End of the Voluntary Waiting Period to Optimize Health and Reproductive Performance
2. Nutritional Management of the Prepartum Dairy Cow
3. Calving Management: A Team Approach
4. Monitoring Health and Looking for Sick Cows
5. Nutritional Management of Lactating Dairy Cows
6. Reproductive Management in Dairy Cows
7. Reproductive Management of Lactating Dairy Cows for First Postpartum Insemination
8. Applications of Ultrasonography in Dairy Cattle Reproductive Management
9. Resynchronization of Estrus, Ovulation, and Timed Insemination in Lactating Dairy Cows
10. Diseases that Affect the Reproductive Performance of Dairy Cattle
11. Infectious Reproductive Diseases
12. Economics of Reproductive Performance
13. Managing Reproduction During Heat Stress in Dairy Cows
14. Immunology and Vaccination of Dairy Cattle
15. Management of Dairy Calves from Birth to Weaning
16. Nutritional Management of Dairy Heifers
17. Management Strategies to Optimize Reproductive Efficiency in Dairy
18. Managing Mastitis and Producing Quality Milk
19. Lameness in Dairy Cattle
20. Management Strategies for Optimizing Forage Quality for Dairy Production
21. Applied Statistical Analyses for Dairy Production
22. Dairy Records Analysis and Evaluation of Performance
23. Managing People in Today's Production Dairy Environment
24. Practical Genetics
25. Euthanasia Techniques for Dairy Cattle
26. Managing Herd Health in Organic Herds

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