Raising Commercial Dairy Calves, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice

Description

Approx.240 pages

Key Features

• Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including changing demographics of the commercial dairy calf industry; acceptable young calf vaccination strategies; dairy calf nutrition through weaning: recent research findings; nutritional programs for commercial replacement dairy heifer operations; predicting pre-weaning dairy calf performance: the calf toolkit; and more. 

• Provides in-depth clinical reviews on raising commercial dairy calves, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. 

• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews. 

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Author Information

Edited by R. M. Thornsberry, D.V.M., M.B.A., Mid America Veterinary Consulting , Richland, MO ; Alois (Al) F. Kertz, Ph.D , ANDHIL LLC , St. Louis, Missouri and James K. Drackley, Ph.D , Professor of Animal Sciences , University of Illinois