Managing Pig Health and the Treatment of Disease
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Managing Pig Health and the Treatment of Disease
Author(s): Michael R Muirhead and Thomas JL AlexanderManaging Pig Health and the Treatment of Disease has been written with a clear objective - to help all those associated with pig production, especially farmers and advisors, to understand, identify, manage and treat disease problems that are specific to pig farms. The information in our Pig Health database is based on this book, so if you haven't already why not have a browse through the database. This will allow you to view the extensive knowledge contained within this book.
The book is designed to provide a clear understanding of how to counter disease on a pig farm thus helping to increase production.
The book consists of 17 chapters detailing the management and control of disease in general, and more specifically how it affects the various stages of pig production. The book is written as a practical reference manual for the farm and is presented in a very easily understandable manner.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: Reprinted January 2002
Binding: Softback
Dimensions: 210mm wide x 260mm high x 36mm thick
Weight: 1.8kg
Extent: 608 pages
ISBN: 0 0 9530150 4 1
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The information in our Pig Health database is based on this book, so if you haven't already why not have a browse through the database. This will allow you to view the extensive knowledge contained within this book.
The 17 chapters in this book are a follows:
- Introduction to the anatomy and physiology of the pig
- Understanding disease
- Managing health and disease
- Treating disease
- Reproduction: non-infectious infertility
- Reproduction: infectious fertility
- Managing and treating disease in the dry period
- Managing and treating disease in the farrowing and suckling period
- Managing and treating disease in the weaning and finishing period
- Skin conditions
- Parasites
- Exotic diseases
- Poisons: recognition, treatment and control
- Nutrition and disease
- Surgical, manipulative and practical procedures on the farm
- Welfare and disease
- Health and safety
- Appendix: quick references and useful information
- Index
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