The latest information on heifer development in beef cattle for the food animal practitioner! Topics include rebuilding the US cowherd, physiology and endocrinology of puberty, nutritional development and the target weight debate, long-term reproductive health, effect of prenatal programming on development, economics of development, synchronization of estrus and ovulation, post breeding heifer management, management strategies for adding value to heifers, and more!
Vanderwerff L, Hoffman PC. Building a better breeding criteria for dairy heifers. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin-Madison; 2013. Available at: http://fyi. uwex.edu/heifermgmt/heifer-management/. Accessed October 25, 2015.
Management Considerations in Beef Heifer Development and Puberty
This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Food Animal Practice, edited by Dr. Rick Funston and Dr. J. Travis Mulliniks, is dedicated to Developmental Programming in Livestock Production.
Forthcoming Issues ForthcomingIssuesNovember2013 Heifer Development in Beef Cattle David J. Patterson, PhD, ... Interest Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice April 2013 (Vol.29,No.1)TopicsinEquine Anesthesia StuartC.
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This issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice focuses on Bovine Theriogenology.
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