This comprehensive book covers all aspects of sheep health and disease, and sheep husbandry throughout the annual breeding cycle. Through extensive and detailed photographs it highlights the disease and welfare issues that can arise within the great variety of breeds and flock types. Written by two veterinary surgeons closely involved in sheep health, this book takes a veterinary view of husbandry and emphasizes the importance of keeping diseases out of a flock. From practical tasks such as how to check teeth, feet and udders, through to vaccination schedules, injection techniques and parasite control, it covers the whole life cycle of your flock.
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A book that covers various aspects of sheep health and disease, and sheep husbandry throughout the annual breeding cycle. It includes photographs that highlights the disease and welfare issues that can arise within the great variety of breeds and flock types.
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Features and reviews in Sheep magazine, Animal Welfare Journal and The Ark magazine of Rare Breeds Survival Trust . Reviews in Farmers Weekly, Farmers Guardian, Home Farmer and The Veterinary Record.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781847972354
Publisert
2011-04-30
Utgiver
Vendor
The Crowood Press Ltd
Vekt
765 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
189 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter

Biographical note

Agnes C Winter, B.VSc, PhD, DSHP, MRCVS is a specialist sheep vet who grew up on a family farm in the Yorkshire Dales and has kept sheep for most of her life. She is the past President of the Sheep Veterinary Society, President of the Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Breeder's Association and Vice President of the European College of Small Ruminant Health Management. She is now Honorary Professor of the Veterinary School at The University of Liverpool where she worked for 25 years before retiring in 2008.