Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsHealth and disease; preparation for mating; control of breeding - advanced techniques; fertility and the management of pregnancy; lambing time; the care and welfare of newborn lambs; diseases of newborn lambs; pneumonia and other respiratory diseases; vitamins, minerals, diet; internal parasites; external parasites; miscellaneous skin, eye and gum conditions; poisons and radioactivity.
