This is a practical manual focusing principally on the needs of sheep farmers and shepherds in the United Kingdom but covering material applicable to sheep-farming situations worldwide. It should also be invaluable to agricultural and veterinary students as well as to veterinary surgeons in general practice who treat sheep only occasionally.
Major headings are: Health and disease; preparation for mating; manipulation of breeding; management during pregnancy; abortion; other diseases encountered during pregnancy; lambing time; care and welfare of newborn lambs; diseases of newborn lambs; pneumonia and other respiratory diseases; trace elements, minerals, vitamoins and water; internal parasites; skin parasites of sheep; skin, eye and gum conditions; foot lameness; poisons and radioactivity.
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Fadenheftung
Gewebe-Einband
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Höhe: 241 mm
Breite: 170 mm
Dicke: 53 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-903366-30-1 (9781903366301)
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David C Henderson began his working life as a hill shepherd in Cumberland and, after attending Kirkley Hall Farm Institute in Northumberland, as a farm foreman in Lincolnshire. After qualifying from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies in Edinburgh, he worked in farm animal veterinary practices, mainly in the West Country. He was senior lecturer in animal health at Seale-Hayne Agricultural College in Devon and later a field research and development officer for a major pharmaceutical company. From 1984 until his retirement in 1999 he was Head of the Department of Clinical Studies and Director of Farms at the Moredun Research Institute in Edinburgh.
David has been both President and Honorary Treasurer of the Sheep Veterinary Society, a visiting lecturer at the veterinary schools in Glasgow and Edinburgh, an external examiner at London and Glasgow veterinary schools, a chief examiner for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and consultant to a large beef and sheep enterprise in the eastern United States of America. He holds a BSAS/RSPCA award for Innovative Developments in Animal Welfare (2000), is an Associate of the Royal Agricultural Societies and is currently a member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council.
Health and disease; preparation for mating; control of breeding - advanced techniques; fertility and the management of pregnancy; lambing time; the care and welfare of newborn lambs; diseases of newborn lambs; pneumonia and other respiratory diseases; vitamins, minerals, diet; internal parasites; external parasites; miscellaneous skin, eye and gum conditions; poisons and radioactivity.
