Production Diseases in Farm Animals

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Production Diseases in Farm Animals is written by Th Wensing and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004683917 (ISBN 10) and 9789004683914 (ISBN 13).

High producing farm animals (dairy cows, beef cattle, veal calves, pigs, sheep etc.) are permanently challenged by a variety of factors: lack of proper nutrition ( deficit/surplus ), housing systems, infections and stress. The incidence, course and outcome of production diseases are changing continuously. Therefore new information on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of production diseases is needed. These problems are complicated by the discussion of animal welfare, the rapid changes in agricultural production and the economics of production. This complexity can only be analysed, pushed forward or eventually solved by an interdisciplinary approach which can stimulate new ideas for research and collaboration. At the 10th International Conference on Production Diseases in Farm Animals 1998, about 120 scientists in the field of large animal science presented the results of their research in connection with this subject. The full papers of the key note lectures and the abstracts of the scientific presentations are published in this book. The abstracts in this book provide scientists, veterinarians and other workers in animal husbandry with the most recent findings of ongoing research. Over 20 full papers provide up-to-date reviews of the developments in the different disciplines in relation to the production diseases in modern husbandry.