Getting started with beef & diary cattle
A guide to raising beef and dairy cattle that explains how to pick the best cattle, with an overview of specific breed attributes and information on how size, color, body shape, hair length, and milking abilities make each more or less suitable to various needs
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| Language: | English |
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North Adams, Massachusetts :
Storey Publication ,
c2005
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What do I need?
- 2. Nutrition
- 3. Maintaining healthy cattle
- 4. Choosing a beef breed
- 5. Selecting and transporting beef cattle
- 6. Care and handling of beef cattle
- 7. Natural, organic, and grass-fed beef
- 8. Raising beef heifers
- 9. Breeding and calving the beef heifer
- 10. Beef herd management
- 11. Selecting dairy heifer
- 12. Care of the dairy heifer
- 13. Breeding and calving the dairy heifer
- 14. Care of the dairy cow
- 15. A dairy of your own