Dairy Cows : Reproduction, Nutritional Management and Diseases

In this book, the authors discuss the reproduction, nutritional management and diseases relating to dairy cows. Topics include strategies to improve the reproductive efficiency of dairy cattle; an illustrated classification system to define the causes of international bovine perinatal mortality; resetting the priorities for sustainable dairy farming under global change; and somatic cell count as a factor conditioning productivity of various breeds of cows and technological suitability of milk.