| Foreword by Baxter Black, DV1VI |
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| 1 Breeds and Genetics: An Overview |
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Breeds and Types of Beef Cattle |
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Crossbreeding and Hybrid Vigor |
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Selecting for Certain Characteristics |
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| 2 Handling and Behavior of Beef Cattle |
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| 3 Issues in Buying and Selling |
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Buying a Weaned Calf to Raise for Beef |
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What Makes a Good Beef Cow? |
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Buying Pregnant Heifers or Cows |
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Getting Cattle Ready for Market |
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| 4 General Guidelines for Raising Beef Cattle |
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Understanding Your Calf's Behavior |
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Winter Care of the New Calf |
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Summer Care of the Yearling |
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| 5 Pasture, Fencing, and Facilities |
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Pastures Sizes and Types |
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| 6 Feeding Cattle |
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Feeding Forages (Roughages) |
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| 7 Keeping Cattle Healthy |
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Know What a Healthy Animal Looks Like |
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Bovine Respiratory Disease |
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Urinary calculi (bladder stones) |
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Strangulated teat from hairy udder |
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| 8 Growing and breeding heifers |
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Nutrition for the pregnant yearling |
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Basics of reproduction in cattle |
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Choosing the Bull and Getting the Heifer Bred |
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| 9 Care of the Pregnant cow |
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| 10 Calving |
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Create a safe environment for calving |
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Handling cows at calving time |
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Signs of approaching parturition |
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Minimizing calving problems: getting the calves born alive |
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First Things First: get the calf breathing |
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| 11 Care of the Newborn Calf |
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Care of the umbilical cord |
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Helping in different situations |
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| 12 Calf Health |
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Calfhood immunity: the role of antibodies |
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Detecting illness in young calves |
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Treating diarrhea and gut infections in calves |
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Pneumonia in young calves |
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Naval infections and joint ill |
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Catching calves for doctoring |
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Using an Esophageal feeder |
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Birth defects in young calves |
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| 13 Weaning the Calves |
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The Importance of When You Wean |
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| 14 Rebreeding |
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Feeding the Cow after Calving |
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Reproductive Behavior of Cows and Bulls |
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Breeding Ability of Bulls |
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| Glossary |
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| Sources |
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| Suppliers |
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| Cooperative Extension Service |
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| Breed Organizations |
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| Index |
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