Getting started with beef & dairy cattle / Heather Smith Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., c2005.Description: vi, 281 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1580176046 : HRD
Other title:
  • Getting started with beef and dairy cattle
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 636.2/1 22
LOC classification:
  • SF207 .T46 2005
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Contents:
1 What Do I Need? 4 -- 2 Nutrition 24 -- 3 Maintaining Healthy Cattle 32 -- 4 Choosing a Beef Breed 64 -- 5 Selecting and Transporting Beef Cattle 74 -- 6 Care and Handling of Beef Cattle 82 -- 7 Natural, Organic, and Grass-Fed Beef 93 -- 8 Raising Beef Heifers 104 -- 9 Breeding and Calving the Beef Heifer 117 -- 10 Beef Herd Management 142 -- 11 Selecting Dairy Cattle 160 -- 12 Care of the Dairy Heifer 174 -- 13 Breeding and Calving the Dairy Heifer 195 -- 14 Care of the Dairy Cow 205 -- 15 A Dairy of Your Own 215 -- Gallery of Breeds 235.
Summary: A guide to raising beef and dairy cattle that explains how to pick the best cattle, with an overview of specific breed attributes and information on how size, color, body shape, hair length, and milking abilities make each more or less suitable to various needs.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-252) and index.

1 What Do I Need? 4 -- 2 Nutrition 24 -- 3 Maintaining Healthy Cattle 32 -- 4 Choosing a Beef Breed 64 -- 5 Selecting and Transporting Beef Cattle 74 -- 6 Care and Handling of Beef Cattle 82 -- 7 Natural, Organic, and Grass-Fed Beef 93 -- 8 Raising Beef Heifers 104 -- 9 Breeding and Calving the Beef Heifer 117 -- 10 Beef Herd Management 142 -- 11 Selecting Dairy Cattle 160 -- 12 Care of the Dairy Heifer 174 -- 13 Breeding and Calving the Dairy Heifer 195 -- 14 Care of the Dairy Cow 205 -- 15 A Dairy of Your Own 215 -- Gallery of Breeds 235.

A guide to raising beef and dairy cattle that explains how to pick the best cattle, with an overview of specific breed attributes and information on how size, color, body shape, hair length, and milking abilities make each more or less suitable to various needs.

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