Essential Guide to Calving - Veterinary Book

Essential Guide to Calving - Veterinary book - cover book - 9788494040238
  • Essential Guide to Calving - Veterinary book - cover book - 9788494040238
  • Essential Guide to Calving - Veterinary book - cover book - 9788494040238
  • Essential Guide to Calving - Veterinary book - cover book - 9788494040238
  • Essential Guide to Calving - Veterinary book - cover book - 9788494040238

Essential Guide to Calving

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How is the due date estimated? How do we know when the cow begins the prepartum period? When is professional assistance required? These are some of many questions that may arise during calving. For this reason, Servet has decided to publish this book that answers the main questions regarding calving in a simple and easy way. In this original book, you will find the essential features that need to be taken into consideration during gestation, calving and the postpartum period in order to deal with calving successfully, avoid dystocia and increase the survival rate of the calves.

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How is the due date estimated? When is professional assistance required? These are some of the questions that may arise during calving.This book answers all of them in a simple and easy way. In this practical book, you will find the essential features that need to be taken into consideration during gestation, calving and the postpartum period in order to deal with calving successfully.

Authors:

J.V. GONZÁLEZ-MARTÍN, L. ELVIRA AND N. PÉREZ VILLALOBOS.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction

Dystocia

Associated costs

Causes

Associated factors

Types

Plan of action

2. The gestation

Physiology

Duration of the gestation

Handling

Key facts for heifer ́s mating

The mother’s body condition

Feeding during the prepartum

Vaccination of the mothers

Diseases

Possible problems before calving

3. Calving

Normal physiology during calving: the eutocic

delivery

External signs of the proximity of delivery

Stages of the eutocic delivery

Presentations

The delivery room

Features of the delivery room

Types of delivery rooms

The problematic delivery: dystocia

When to examine the cow

How to examine the cow during calving

When to call the vet

Causes, types and how to perform

Materno-fetal disproportion

Abnormal positioning of the calve

The delivery of twins

The malformations of the calve

Causes, types and how to perform

Forced extraction of the calve

4. The postpartum

The mother

Physiology of the postpartum

Handling in the postpartum

Problems of the cow during postpartum

The calve

Physiology: the healthy calve

Problems of the calve

Reanimation of the calve

Examination of the calve

Handling of the newborn calve

Umbilical cord care

Colostrum intake

5. Appendix

6. Bibliography

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Data sheet

Author
Juan Vicente González
Laura Elvira
Natividad Pérez
Trim size
17 x 24 cm
Pub date
2013
Product type
Hardcover

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