Drawing on an international range of expertise, Achieving Sustainable Production of Milk: Volume 3, Dairy Herd Management and Welfare, reviews research addressing the welfare, nutrition and health of dairy cattle. Part 1 begins by discussing key issues in welfare followed by topics such as genetic selection and welfare, housing and transportation. Part 2 looks at nutrition with chapters on rumen microbiology, feed evaluation and formulation, feed supplements and feed safety. The final part of the book covers aspects of health such as control of diseases and other disorders such as lameness as well as dairy herd health management. will be a standard reference for animal and dairy scientists in universities, government and other research centres and companies involved in beef production. 606 p.

Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science, N° 10
 

• .Joh, Webster, Editor. Emeritus Professor in Animal Husbandry, University of Bristol (UK).
  
   
• Publication date (print & electronic format): 2017-08.