Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle: 3rd Edition

Cover
 Contents
 Foreword
 1 Breeds and Genetics: An Overview
 Choosing Beef Cattle
 Breeds and Types of Beef Cattle
 Which Type Is Best?
 Inheritance of Traits
 Crossbreeding and Hybrid Vigor
 Selecting for Certain Characteristics
 2 Handling and Behavior of Beef Cattle
 Basic Cow Psychology
 Grazing Behavior
 Training Cattle
 Moving Cattle
 Avoiding Injury
 3 Issues in Buying and Selling
 Buying a Weaned Calf to Raise for Beef
 Buying Calves at Auction
 Buying from a Farmer
 Buying a Heifer
 What Makes a Good Beef Cow?
 Buying Pregnant Heifers or Cows
 Buying Open Yearlings. Marketing CattleDealing with Shrink
 Getting Cattle Ready for Market
 4 General Guidelines for Raising Beef Cattle
 Understanding Your Calf\'s Behavior
 Care for the Weaned Calf
 Winter Care of the New Calf
 Summer Care of the Yearling
 The End Product: Beef
 Feeds and Finishing
 5 Pasture, Fencing, and Facilities
 Pastures --
Sizes and Types
 Water
 Pasture Fencing
 Pens and Facilities
 Working in Corrals
 Feeding Facilities
 Equipment and Supplies
 6 Feeding Cattle
 Basic Nutrition
 Digestion
 Feeding Forages (Roughages)
 Nutritional Needs Vary
 7 Keeping Cattle Healthy. Know What a Healthy Animal Looks LikeVaccinations
 Bovine Respiratory Disease
 Clostridial Diseases
 Rabies
 Coccidiosis
 Eye Problems
 Foot Rot
 Lump Jaw
 Bony Lump Jaw
 Mastitis in Beef Cows
 Hardware Disease
 Urinary Calculi (Bladder Stones)
 Bloat
 Acidosis and Laminitis
 Poisoning: Toxic Plants
 Emphysema
 Nitrate Poisoning
 Internal Parasites
 External Parasites
 Skin Problems
 Porcupine Quills
 Snakebite
 Strangulated Teat from Hairy Udder
 8 Growing and Breeding Heifers
 Feeding Weaned Heifers
 Age at Puberty
 When to Breed
 Nutrition for the Pregnant Yearling. Basics of Reproduction in CattleChoosing the Bull and Getting the Heifer Bred
 9 Care of the Pregnant Cow
 Nutrition
 Disease Prevention
 Problems of Pregnancy
 10 Calving
 Create a Safe Environment for Calving
 Calving Facilities
 Cold-Weather Calving
 Handling Cows at Calving Time
 Signs of Approaching Parturition
 Minimizing Calving Problems: Getting the Calves Born Alive
 First Things First: Get the Calf Breathing
 11 Care of the Newborn Calf
 Get the Calf Breathing
 Care of the Umbilical Cord
 Helping a Calf to Nurse
 Importance of Colostrum
 Helping in Different Situations. 12 Calf HealthCalfhood Immunity: The Role of Antibodies
 Castration
 Dehorning
 Detecting Illness in Young Calves
 Managing Scours
 Treating Diarrhea and Gut Infections in Calves
 Pneumonia in Young Calves
 Diphtheria in Calves
 Navel Infections and Joint Ill
 Catching Calves for Doctoring
 Using an Esophageal Feeder
 Giving Oral Medications
 Broken Bones
 Birth Defects in Young Calves
 13 Weaning the Calves
 The Importance of When You Wean
 Stress of Weaning
 Vaccinations
 Dehorning
 14 Rebreeding
 Feeding the Cow after Calving
 Cow Fertility
 Use of Bulls.