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The veterinary book for sheep farmers / David C. Henderson.

By: Henderson, David C., BVM&S [author ].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Great Easton, Essex, UK : Old Pond, 2021Copyright date: ©1990Description: xii, 689 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781903366301 (hardback); 1903366305 (hardback).Subject(s): Sheep -- DiseasesDDC classification: 636.30896
Contents:
Health and disease -- Preparation for mating -- Manipulation of breeding -- Management during pregnancy -- Abortion -- Other diseases encountered during pregnancy -- Lambing time -- The care and welfare of newborn lambs -- Diseases of new born lambs -- Pneumonia and other respiratory diseases -- Trace elements, minerals, vitamins and water -- Internal parasites -- The skin parasites of sheep -- Miscellaneous skin, eye and gum conditions -- Foot lameness -- Poisons and radioactivity -- A husbandry and health programme for a spring lambing flock -- Flock husbandry and health programmes -- Humane euthanasia of casualty cases -- Transport of sheep -- Notifiable diseases -- Zoonoses -- Dipping technique -- Some conversion factors.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Notes Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 636.30896 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MTU Cork Module AGRI6023 - Supplementary reading. MTU Cork Module AGRI6003 - Supplementary reading. 00223080
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A wide-ranging manual on sheep diseases which offers to increase productivity and profitability by improving the standard of husbandry and upgrading the health status of the flock. The book stresses the understanding of the causes and development of disease so that a full prevention programme can be planned. A major section describes the latest techniques for fertility control. Quick reference pages offer action checklists at key points in the shepherd's year. Appendices cover such basic but essential techniques as dipping procedures. David Henderson has experience of the practical side of raising sheep He qualified as a veterinary surgeon and has worked in a general veterinary practice. He has been an agricultural college lecturer and has worked in pharmaceutical research and development. This manual is for sheep farmers but has also been prepared with the needs of agricultural and veterinary students in mind.

First published : Ipswich : Farming Press, 1990.

Includes index.

Health and disease -- Preparation for mating -- Manipulation of breeding -- Management during pregnancy -- Abortion -- Other diseases encountered during pregnancy -- Lambing time -- The care and welfare of newborn lambs -- Diseases of new born lambs -- Pneumonia and other respiratory diseases -- Trace elements, minerals, vitamins and water -- Internal parasites -- The skin parasites of sheep -- Miscellaneous skin, eye and gum conditions -- Foot lameness -- Poisons and radioactivity -- A husbandry and health programme for a spring lambing flock -- Flock husbandry and health programmes -- Humane euthanasia of casualty cases -- Transport of sheep -- Notifiable diseases -- Zoonoses -- Dipping technique -- Some conversion factors.

MTU Cork Module AGRI6023 - Supplementary reading.

MTU Cork Module AGRI6003 - Supplementary reading.