Практическое руководство. - Roodbont publisers; Zutphen,
Netherlands, 2007. - 97 p.
ISBN 90-75280- 65 -3
This practical guide was compiled for and with dairy farmers and veterinary surgeons to provide them with additional tools for observing and using cow signals.\ CONTENTS: INTODUCTION Don't just look: observe!
From large to small
Evaluating cow signals
Look and compare
Risk groups
Indicator animals
Risk locations
Times of fisk
Not completing intentional movements
Unclassified notable observations
Anatomy of a cow
Risk management
Success factors At grass
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 When housed
Use a critical eye
Differences between animals
Space and social order
Risk locations
Ught 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 While eating and digesting
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 In the milking parlour
Leaing 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
Robotic milking
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? Heifers and dry cows
Universal or farm - specific
Growth and development
The first days of life
Changes
Cows lea
Rearing young stock
Dry period
Around calvin Index
ISBN 90-75280- 65 -3
This practical guide was compiled for and with dairy farmers and veterinary surgeons to provide them with additional tools for observing and using cow signals.\ CONTENTS: INTODUCTION Don't just look: observe!
From large to small
Evaluating cow signals
Look and compare
Risk groups
Indicator animals
Risk locations
Times of fisk
Not completing intentional movements
Unclassified notable observations
Anatomy of a cow
Risk management
Success factors At grass
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 When housed
Use a critical eye
Differences between animals
Space and social order
Risk locations
Ught 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 While eating and digesting
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 In the milking parlour
Leaing 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
Robotic milking
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? Heifers and dry cows
Universal or farm - specific
Growth and development
The first days of life
Changes
Cows lea
Rearing young stock
Dry period
Around calvin Index