Full Description
This textbook deals comprehensively with livestock production diseases and their prevention in the major species: ruminants, swine, and poultry. It gives an interdisciplinary view on pathophysiology, prophylaxis, and health management.
Livestock breeding and husbandry is often accompanied by a conflict of interest between the animal's biological requirements and economic producer needs. This conflict is increasingly gaining attention not only by producers, animal scientists, and veterinarians, but also by the public. It creates significant future challenges, which are described and addressed in this book. The main topics covered are: • the use of antimicrobials with emphasis on security and safety for producers/consumers• the impact of locomotion disorders on performance and welfare of farm animals • the interactions of gut microbiome, genetics, climate change, metabolic status and mineral homeostasis with reproduction, performance, animal health and welfare• infectious and respiratory diseases• the raising of neonates
A special section is devoted to behavioural signs indicating an impaired animal welfare. These are the basis for precision livestock farming (PLF) technology and the development of new management concepts.
The present work is a valuable resource for veterinarians, students, as well as expert readers from animal and agricultural sciences, food safety and technology. Supplementary videos can be accessed online as well as directly from the print book; simply download the Springer Nature More Media App for free and scan the links with the play button.
Contents
Part I: Veterinary public health aspects of production diseases.- Epidemiology of production diseases.- Societal Attitudes towards Animal Welfare and Livestock Production Diseases.- Antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens from farm animals.- Part II: Metabolic health disorders.- Metabolism and inflammation in dairy cows.- Etiology of oxidative stress in dairy cows.- Ketosis in dairy cows.- Part III: Gastrointestinal disorders.- Displacement of the abomasum.- The gut microbiome in pigs and its impact on animal health.- Physiology of Gut Water Balance and Patho-mechanics of Diarrhea.- Diarrhea in calves.- Infectious Enteric Diseases in Pigs.- Part IV: Respiratory diseases.- Respiratory diseases in calves.- Respiratory diseases in pigs.- Part V: Mammary gland health and Lactation.- Postpartum dysgalactia syndrome in sows: a review.- Mastitis in dairy cows.- Disturbed milk ejection at machine milking and the issues related to exogenous oxytocin in dairy cows.- Part VI: Locomotion disorders.- Lameness in cattle.- Lameness in pigs.- Part VII: Environment, behavior, genetics, and animal welfare.- Associations of behavior and production disease in dairy cattle.- Heat stress in lactating and non-lactating dairy cows.- Feather pecking behavior in laying hens - challenges in management and breeding.- Tail-biting in pigs.- Breeding for metabolic robustness and longevity in dairy cows.- Part VIII: Strategies and management tools for disease control.- Milk as diagnostic medium for detection of health disorders in dairy animals.- Consequences of lactation length for health and fertility in dairy cows.- Surveillance and decision making in swine health management.
