
By Patrick C. Hoffman, Rhonda Plourd
Sixty colourful tables and greater than eighty full-color pictures plus considerable charts, graphs, and distinct drawings fill this transparent consultant. Written via specialists at 4 significant agricultural universities, elevating Dairy Replacements explains: Fetal calf improvement and beginning, together with supply. Calf healthiness, feeding, housing, and common administration. Heifer improvement, well-being, meals, copy, atmosphere, housing, and common administration. Prevention and remedy of mastitis. Markers within the published booklet direct readers to the CD for additional info. The significant other CD incorporates a searchable PDF model of the e-book plus extra images and tables; Heifer Suite software program (Windows 2000, NT, XP®) from revenue resource, a pace-setter in digital dairy administration instruments; and Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0®. Heifer Suite contains "Ration price Analyzer" (to calculate fee and nutrient content material of substitute heifer diets), "Heifer ProQWIK Chart" (to evaluate progress with criteria, progress cost inside a pen, and administration variables), and "Raising expense Evaluator" (to calculate the price of elevating calves or heifers and to behavior person cost-of-production research)