Understanding the dairy cow
著者
書誌事項
Understanding the dairy cow
BSP Professional Books, 1993
2nd ed
大学図書館所蔵 全6件
注記
Bibliography: p. [361]-367
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- Evolution of the modern dairy cow
- physiology of digestion and metabolism
- physiology of reproduction and lactation
- environmental physiology and behaviour
- principles of nutrition
- the nutritive value and metabolic diseases
- environmental requirements and building design
- the milking parlour and mastitis
- miscellaneous maladies
- selection for milk production
- control of breeding and fertility
- production and economics.
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