A Manual of Lambing Techniques

Cicely Hill, Agnes C Winter (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

96 Seiten

2003 | New edition
The Crowood Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-86126-574-6 (ISBN)

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This practical manual takes you through the period approaching, during and immediately after lambing. Advice is given on how to deal with a range of situations, from normal and malpresentations, and the sick in-lamb ewe to abortion and the health of the newborn lamb.

Lambing can be a challenging prospect whether its your first or your thirty-first season. This highly practical manual will take you through the period approaching, during and immediately after lambing. Advice is given on how to deal with a range of situations: normal and malpresentations; the sick in-lamb ewe; Abortion; pre- and post-lambing prolapses; the health of the newborn lamb and finally, problems and emergencies in the first few days.

Cicely Hill has 25 years' sheep-keeping experience with flocks on a frequent lambing system, lambing in batches throughout the year. Agnes C Winter, B.VSc, PhD, DSHP, MRCVS is a specialist sheep vet who grew up on a family farm in the Yorkshire Dales and has kept sheep for most of her life. She is the past President of the Sheep Veterinary Society, President of the Wensleydale Longwool Sheep Breeder's Association and Vice President of the European College of Small Ruminant Health Management. She is now Honorary Professor of the Veterinary School at The University of Liverpool where she worked for 25 years before retiring in 2008.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.2.2003
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Ramsbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Themenwelt	Veterinärmedizin ► Großtier
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-86126-574-3 / 1861265743
ISBN-13	978-1-86126-574-6 / 9781861265746
Zustand	Neuware