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Cattle Care Essentials: A Comprehensive Guide to Health, Nutrition, and Disease Prevention
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 6 2025
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Cattle Care Essentials: Feeding, Housing, Health, Breeding & Records for Smallholders is a practical, plain-English guide for first-time cattle keepers, smallholders, and hands-on farmers who want to care for beef, dairy, or dual-purpose cattle with more confidence.
First published: 6 March 2025
Cattle farming rewards people who notice small things early: a heifer slightly off feed, calves coughing after a damp night, a trough running dry, or a cow losing condition before winter. This book helps you build the daily habits, facilities, records, and prevention routines that stop small problems becoming expensive ones.
Written as a working reference rather than a veterinary manual, it covers the essentials of getting started with cattle, choosing suitable breeds, planning housing and handling systems, understanding nutrition, managing forage and grazing, preparing for breeding and calving, raising calves, and recognising when professional help is needed.
You will also find practical guidance on bovine respiratory disease, BVD, IBR, parasites, vaccination, hoof health, lameness, mastitis, biosecurity, farm records, compliance, budgeting, and the financial side of keeping cattle.
This is a realistic guide for people who want to make better cattle decisions before the vet bill, feed bill, or broken gate proves the lesson the hard way.
Inside you'll learn how to:
- Prepare land, fencing, water, housing, and handling facilities before cattle arrive
- Compare beef, dairy, and dual-purpose breeds for small-farm systems
- Plan feeding, forage, grazing, minerals, and body condition management
- Understand breeding, calving, calf care, disease prevention, and biosecurity
- Keep better records for health, medicine use, movement, compliance, and costs
Ideal for beginners, smallholders, and practical farmers, this book is designed for the shelf, the farm office, and the first years of real cattle ownership.
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