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This volume demonstrates the inescapable link between good land management and raising healthy productive animals. Modern farming practices, including improved paddock and farm layouts, water conservation and the use of soil analyses are examined. It shows how particular minerals and trace elements in the soil and feed affect the availability of vitamins that are needed to protect animals against diseases and promote healthy growth. All the common ailments of cattle are covered in detail along with herbal treatments and other remedies that are cheap and easy to use. The book also covers the principles of feeding cattle and calves and provides details of the different breeds of cattle suitable for beef or dairy farming on either small or large scale.
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- PublisherCSIRO Publishing
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0643067655
- ISBN 13 9780643067653
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated in black and white. 21 cm. VI, 218 pages VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, slight soiling, annotations on inside back cover. Seller Inventory # 55858
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Healthy Cattle Naturally
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Book condition is near fine. Soft cover. No dust. Published 2005. Text body clean. Spine intact. Book block clean. Book boards clean front and back. Overall an excellent and neat copy. Pat coleby has spent over 30 years improving husbandry from the ground up. Healthy Cattle Naturally demonstrates the inescapable connection between good land management and raising healthy productive animals. Pat explains what makes Cattle sick and shows how to keep them healthy using natural chemical-free techniques that are cheap and easy to us3. With the increasing demand for well-grown, uncontaminated products, both conventional and organic farmers will benefit enormously from the techniques presented in this book. The book covers, farming in the new Millennium, Cattle for milk and meat production, improving farming efficiency, using soil analysis to improve your farm and stock health, breeding - Heredity and environment, feeding, dairy and range, house cows and rearing calves, minerals, vitamins, herbal and other useful remedies, undesirable drugs and strategies to off them and common ailments and remedies to alleviate or prevent them. The husbandry presented by Pat Coleby in this book is based on her first hand experience and provides an invaluable insight into the natural care of farm animals. Pat continues to work as an agricultural consultant and adviser to Australian farmers. Overall an excellent and neat copy. Seller Inventory # ABE-1679398968259
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