Table Of ContentBovine Medicine
Bovine Medicine
Third Edition
Editedby
Peter D. Cockcroft
ProfessorofRuminantHealth,
SchoolofAnimalandVeterinarySciences,
UniversityofAdelaide,SouthAustralia
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Contents
Contributors,ix
Preface,xi
Section III: Clinical Skills
13 HerdHealthInvestigationsinCattlePractice,117
Section I: Modern Cattle Practice
CherylL.WaldnerandJohnR.Campbell
1 SustainabilityandOneHealth,3
14 DiagnosisandClinicalReasoninginCattlePractice,124
JudithL.Capper
PeterD.Cockcroft
2 ModernCattlePractice:aBlueprintfortheFuture,11
15 SpecialDiagnosticProcedures,133
JosP.Noordhuizen
PhilScottandPeterD.Cockcroft
3 EducationandCattlePractice:‘WhatDoWeDo?
WhatShouldWeDo?’,26 16 BovineHaematologyandBiochemistry,146
AllanKessell
PeterD.Cockcroft
4 Evidence-BasedVeterinaryMedicineandClinical 17 Post-MortemExaminationandSampleTakingin
AuditsinCattlePractice,41 Cattle,161
PeterD.Cockcroft ElizabethF.McInnes
5 Practice-BasedClinicalResearch,49 18 MicrobiologyforCattlePractitioners,175
MarkA.Holmes BryanMarkey
6 ExpertWitness,55 19 Epidemiology:theImportantConcepts,184
PaulRoger MichaelP.Reichel
20 Biosecurity,189
WayneBoardman
Section II: Practice Management and
Professional Skills 21 AppliedClinicalParasitologyforCattle
Practitioners,198
7 PracticeManagement–DevelopingaProgressive
MikeTaylor
VeterinaryPractice,63
PeterOrpin 22 CattlePoisoning:PrinciplesofToxicological
Investigations,211
8 VeterinaryLeadershipandCommunicationSkills,69
JoPayne,ChrisLiveseyandAlanMurphy
MichelleMcArthurandAdeleFeakes
23 AntimicrobialSelectioninCattlePractice,225
9 Marketing,PromotionandFarmerEducation,77
PeterD.Cockcroft
PeterOrpin
10 VeterinaryEquipmentinAmbulatoryPractice,85 24 PainManagementinCattlePractice,238
PeterD.Cockcroft
KarinMueller
11 ThePracticeLaboratory,97 25 BullHealthandBreedingSoundness,246
AllanKessell PeterChenoweth
12 Safety:HandlingandRestraintofCattle,110 26 EuthanasiaofCattle,262
MandiCarr KarinMueller
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viii Contents
Section IV: Herd Health
43 OptimisingHerdFertility:theFarmAudit,436
27 ImportantNationalandInternationalDiseasesof RobSmith
Cattle,273
MichaelPReichelandCharlesGBCaraguel 44 AHazardsAnalysisCriticalControlPoint
ApproachtoImprovingReproductivePerformance
28 PopulationMedicineandHerdHealthPlanning,280 inLactatingDairyCows,450
NigelB.Cook
I.J.Lean,A.R.RabieeandN.Moss
29 WelfareandCattleBehaviour,291 45 Practice-BasedDairyHealthPlanningandPlans,465
ClivePhillips
JonathanM.E.Statham
30 RumenHealthintheDairyCow,297 46 OrganicDairyFarms,476
DaiGrove-White
KathrynEllis
31 GeneticsfortheBovinePractitioner,305
NicholasN.JonssonandEmilyK.Piper
Section VI: Beef Cattle Herd Health
32 AbortionandPerinatalMortalityinCattle,312
RichardD.Murray 47 BeefSucklerCowDiseases:Monitoringand
Surveillance,489
PhilScott
Section V: Dairy Cattle Herd Health 48 BeefSucklerHerdHealth:KeyInterventionPoints,493
33 ThePrevalenceandCostofImportantEndemic PhilScott
DiseasesandFertilityinDairyHerdsintheUK,325
49 AuditingBeefCowHerdReproduction,501
AlastarMacraeandRichardEsslemont GeorgeCaldowandIainRiddell
34 DairyCowHousingAudit,338 50 FarmAudit –ReplacementBeefHeifers,506
ChrisWatson
RobertL.Larson
35 CattleSigns,347 51 CattleHousing:DesignandManagement,517
KiroPetrovski
JamieRobertson
36 TheFarmAudit:HealthandManagementofthe 52 BovineRespiratoryDisease(BRD):Diagnosis,
Calf,360
PreventionandControl,525
KatrineBazeley
PeterD.Cockcroft
37 HeiferRearing,WeaningtoSecondCalving: 53 FarmAuditofBeefCattleNutrition,531
OptimisingHealthandProductivity,373 ColinMorgan
PeterD.Cockcroft
54 AuditofSemi-IntensiveBeefFinishingSystems,537
38 TheFarmAudit:HealthandManagementofthe PeterD.Cockcroft
TransitionCow,381
IanJ.LeanandPeterJ.DeGaris 55 BeefCattleFeedlots –HowtoMeasure,Manage
andMonitor,543
39 TheFarmAudit:ClinicalDairyCowNutrition,388 MandiCarr
TomChamberlain
56 OrganicBeefFarms,549
40 TheFarmAudit:UdderHealth,MastitisMilk KathrynEllis
QualityandProduction,396
AndrewBiggs 57 MarketingBeefCattlePractice,555
BradJ.White
41 TheFarmAudit:FootHealth,Lamenessand
Footcare,406
NickBell AppendixI VadeMecumofCattleConditions,560
KiroPetrovski
42 ReproductiveTechnologies:On-FarmApplications,418
TimParkinson Index,634
