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The Veterinary Book for Sheep Farmers

David C Henderson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:5M Books Ltd

Published:1st Dec '02

Should be back in stock very soon

The Veterinary Book for Sheep Farmers cover

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.

ISBN: 9781903366301

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1380g

738 pages