Managing high grade dairy cows in the tropics / by John Moran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, John, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dairy farming--Southeast Asia--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Dairy farming.

Dairy farms--Southeast Asia--Management.

Dairy farms.

Farms, Small--Southeast Asia--Management.

Farms, Small.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Place of Publication:

Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Addresses the entire range of management practices found on tropical small holder dairy farms.

Contents:

Cover; Foreword; About the author; Other books and technical manuals by the author; Acknowledgements; Acknowledgement of The Crawford Fund; Chemical warning; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Who are the tropical small holder dairy farmers?; 1.2 Dairy development and farm technology; 1.3 Importing high genetic merit stock onto small holder dairy farms; 1.3.1 Genetic merit of imported stock; 1.3.2 Importing young heifers; 1.3.3 The renewed relevance of embryo transfer technology; 1.4 Outline of the manual; 1.5 The role of the manual in training programs

1.6 The key task areas in any dairy production system2 Pre-departure planning and management of stock on arrival; 2.1 Satisfying customer demands; 2.1.1 What the customer wants; 2.1.2 What the customer needs; 2.1.3 What the customer gets; 2.2 Australia's livestock export chain; 2.3 Rejection of dairy stock for live export; 2.4 Minimising the stress of transportation; 2.4.1 Clinical indicators of transport stress; 2.4.2 Management of transport stress; 2.5 Post-arrival management; 3 Soil and forage management on the new home farm; 3.1 Selection of forage species

3.2 The agronomy of forage crops3.2.1 Fertilising forage crops; 3.2.2 Harvesting forage crops; 3.2.3 Harvesting tree legumes; 3.2.4 Wilting to improve forage intake; 3.3 Making quality silage; 3.4 The 10 steps to making silage; 3.4.1 Harvest the forage; 3.4.2 Wilt the forage to 30% DM; 3.4.3 Add a fermentable substrate at ensiling; 3.4.4 Chop the forage into short lengths; 3.4.5 Compact the forage as tightly as possible; 3.4.6 Complete the entire storage quickly; 3.4.7 Seal storage airtight; 3.4.8 Maintain airtight seal; 3.4.9 Feed out a whole face of the storage

3.4.10 If silage is unsatisfactory, determine the reason3.5 Storing wet by-products as silage; 4 Young stock management; 4.1 Rearing the milk-fed calf; 4.1.1 Colostrum feeding; 4.1.2 Early rumen development; 4.2 A successful early weaning program; 4.2.1 Weaning age; 4.2.2 Concentrate quality; 4.2.3 The high cost of milk rearing; 4.3 Scours in milk-fed calves; 4.3.1 What is scours?; 4.3.2 Causes of nutritional scours; 4.3.3 Treating scours; 4.3.4 Preventing scours; 4.4 Management of weaned replacement heifers; 4.4.1 Fertility; 4.4.2 Milk production; 4.4.3 Heifer wastage

4.5 Targets for replacement heifers4.5.1 Live weight; 4.5.2 Wither height; 4.5.3 Age of teeth eruption; 4.5.4 Energy and protein requirements for heifers; 4.5.5 Feeding heifers to achieve target live weights; 5 The principles of dairy nutrition; 5.1 Nutrients supplied by feeds; 5.1.1 Describing feed energy; 5.1.2 Describing feed protein; 5.1.3 Describing feed fibre; 5.2 Nutrients contained in feeds; 5.3 Predicting cow performance from nutrient intakes; 5.3.1 Water; 5.3.2 Energy; 5.3.3 Protein; 5.3.4 Fibre; 5.4 The lactation cycle; 5.4.1 From calving to peak lactation

5.4.2 Peak lactation to peak intake

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780643107908

0643107908

9781283733397

1283733390

9780643107892

0643107894

OCLC:

823741466