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by Sager DVM Phd Dabvp (Beef Cattle Practic (Author)
This Handbook of Beef Calf Health gives concise recommendations and practice tips of critical topics from mid gestation nutrition of the cow to calf weaning to the producer on chapters such as water quality affecting health, colostrum quality affecting lifetime performance, sire EDP evaluation, and many more topics that affect economics of beef production. This book is useful for the new producer, animal science student, practitioner, and those in the beef production industry. Dr. Bob (Beef) grew up on a registered Hereford ranch near Manhattan, Montana and has been a rancher all his life. He presently works at Medicine Creek Bovine Health and Consulting, and ranches near Wilsall, Montana. This is the second edition of this Handbook for Beef Calf Health. Bob has wrote chapters in text books, articles for beef magazines, research articles involving micro-mineral supplementation affecting the humoral immune system in beef calves and has spoken at national and international veterinary meetings on the subject of mineral nutrition and mineral deficiencies affecting health and performance in beef cattle.
