The Cow Signals Series
The Cow Signals Series - Practical Training For Cattle Farmers
Author: Jan HulsenThe Cow Signals series presents practical knowledge about animal oriented dairy cattle husbandry in an accessible fashion.
Cows send out signals continuously about their health, well being, nutrition and production. The challenge for every dairy farmer is how to interpret these signals and use them. Knowing what to look for enables farmers to pick up these signals everywhere and anytime. Cow Signals explains how to identify these cues.
The Cow Signals series contains five best selling 'signals books' :
- Cow Signals
- Hooves
- From Calf to Heifer
- Udder Health
- Fertility
Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2006
Binding: Paperback
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Introduction
1. Don't just look: observe!
1. Don't just look: observe!
- From large to small
- Evaluating cow signals
- Look and compare
- Risk groups
- Indicator animals
- Risk locations
- Times of rise
- Not completing intentional movements
- Unclassified notable observations
- Anatomy of a cow
- Risk management
- Success factors
- Health, standard values and risks
- The ultimate grazer
- Permanent pasture and suckler cows
- A cow's senses
- Group behaviour
- Lying down and getting up
- Heat (oestrus)
- Attention to cow comfort
- Hooves at pasture
- Locomotion score
- Use a critical eye
- Differences between animals
- Space and social order
- Risk locations
- Light and climate
- Floors
- Hoof score
- Other causes of lameness
- Hoof problems: the consequences
- The need to lie down
- Cubicles
- Looking and understanding
- Straw yards
- Cleanliness score
- Rumen score: food intake and digestion
- Dung
- Dung score A
- Dung score B
- Ration preparation
- Food intake
- Location of the feed barrier and trough
- Water
- Body condition score
- Condition score chart
- What does the condition score tell us?
- Risk groups
- Learning to see more
- Behaviour entering the parlour
- Behaviour leaving the parlour
- Peace and quiet during milking
- Behaviour during milking
- Cleanliness and hygiene
- Hocks
- Hooves
- Evaluating milk
- Teat health
- Teat score
- Rumen fill
- Success factors for robotic milking
- Cow traffic
- Hoof health
- Active cows are keen to eat
- Know thyself
- Health: how do you assess this?
- Disease and discomfort: how do you assess this?
- Universal or farm-specific
- Growth and development
- The first days of life
- Changes
- Cows learn
- Rearing young stock
- Dry period
- Around calving
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'
Index
Producing dairy cows
Index
- Investing in the future
- Age and appropriate care
- Working with young stock signals
- Times of risk
- Standard Procedures
- Before birth
- The reception area
- Removing the calf
- Colostrum: a magic potion
- Individual pens
- Scours
- Treatment of scours
- Keeping calves healthy Calf milk
- Resistance and hygiene
- Banishing infectious agents
- Treatments: careful and clean
- Solid food
- Group pen
- Ready for weaning
- Assessing condition and rumen
- Vulnerable until the sixth month
- Respiratory problems
- Growth, weight and condition
- Grazing period
- Grazing naturally
- Getting in calf
- Pregnancy testing
- Look, think, act
- Rumen fill and dung score
- Hoof health
- Mobility
- Critical observation
- Knowing and doing
- Suitable cubicles
- Final check
Index
Introduction
- Mastitis or udder inflammation
- Structure and function of the udder
- In the cowshed
- Peaceful handling
- Fresh, dry and cool
- Hygiene score
- Hygiene of cows and surroundings
- Cows at rest
- Attentive farmer
- Administering veterinary medicines
- The milking parlour
- Milking machine in good order
- Clever standard procedures
- Identifying infected cows
- Abnormalities
- Milking procedure
- Points to check
- Teat score
- The milking robot
- The group pen
- Working methodically
- Consulting advisors
- How well are you milking?
- Self-criticism and improvements
- The dry period
- Rearing young stock
- Introducing heifers
- California mastitis test (CMT)
- Taking milk samples
- Our five-point plan
- Can you do it better?
- Treating methodically
- Bacteria: a reference guide
- Problems and how to tackle them
- Unclassified notable observations (UNOs)
A calf every year
Cleansing and coming into heat
Cleansing and coming into heat
- Nutrition
- Success factors during transition
- Introducing heifers
- Organising calving
- Calving assistance
- The newly calved cow
- The afterbirth
- Housing and management
- Monitoring the reproductive tract
- Success factors during heat observation
- Using aids
- Heat signals
- Oestrus cycle and cycle signals
- Time of insemination
- Heifers
- Insemination technique
- Standard procedures
- Insemination and organisation
- Many embryos are lost
- Less stress, less embryo loss
- Nutrition
- Pregnancy diagnosis
- Not in calf: now what?
- Learning more about the pregnancy
- Embryo transfer and OPU
- The bull
- Abortion
- Management
- Process management
- Key figures and breeding
- How cattle farmers in other countries do it
- Inducing heat and hormone programmes
- Economics
- UNOs
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