Hooves - A Practical Guide for Hoof Health
Hooves A Practical Guide for Hoof Health
Author: Jan HulsenLame cows are a sign that preventive hoof care can be improved and that earlier treatment would be beneficial. Good hoof management saves you a lot of time and money and spares the cow discomfort. Hooves offers practical help in for achieving good hoof health for your animals.
This guide will teach you how to minimise the risks before the first symptoms occur, and help you to respond in a timely and effective fashion to the first signs of hoof problems and increased risks.
This book is also available in the following languages:
- Nederlands
- Deutsch
- Francais
- Espanol
- Francais
Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 16.7 x 23.5cm
Weight: Unknown
Extent: 40pp
ISBN: 978-90-75280-00-5
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Summary
Basic principles
Index
Basic principles
- Success factors 1, 2 and 3
- Success factor 4: early and effective intervention
- Result and monitoring
- Hooves are home-grown
- Structure and function
- The ideal
- Conditions for healthy hooves
- Hoof haemorrhages/laminitis
- Hoof load
- External hazards
- Tackle the source
- The main infectious disorders
- Load-related, nutritional and metabolic disorders
- Yearling heifers
- Heifers
- Cows in lactation
- Dry cow management
- The cow in the herd
- Fights for dominance and housing
- Prevention is worthwhile
- Intervention
- Preventive trimming
- Trimming in three steps
- Curative trimming
- Attaching blocks
- Using information
- Continue to improe
- The economic side
- Observing cows in the milking parlour
- Management attention
- Monitor risks
- Monitor hoof health
- Record hoof data
- Monitor lameness
- Avoid 'farm blindness'
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