Cattle Footcare and Claw Trimming
Cattle Footcare and Claw Trimming
Author(s): E. Toussaint RavenDairy cow lameness with its appalling costs, both financial to the farmer and in suffering to the animal, has come to be regarded as an occupational ailment of dairy cows wherever they are kept in intensive conditions.
This thoughtful text is superbly illustrated with more than 270 diagrams showing just how the foot and claws function, why ailments occur, causes of these disorders and diseases, and the precise role and techniques of claw trimming.
For farmers the book offers ‘answers to urgent practical questions’. Veterinary practitioners and claw trimmers will find a lucid account of a very complex problem
270 b&w diagrams and illustrations
Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 297 x 210
Weight: Unknown
Extent:128 pp
ISBN: 0 85236 149 1
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- Foreword by P J N Pinsent
- Preface
- Introduction
- Structure and Functions of the Claw
- Disease of the Quick
- Trimming
- Foot baths
- Nutrition
- Housing
- Breeding
- Epilogue
- Further Reading
- Index
- Using Rubber Claw-Blocks
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