MAY 2013 HOMEWORK 3
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15. There is a good list of bovine topics listed at this website. Find the cattle lameness 
page and look under animal factors. Which breed of dairy cattle has a hard foot? What does the color of the foot have to do with lameness?
page and look under animal factors. Which breed of dairy cattle has a hard foot? What does the color of the foot have to do with lameness?16. What is a shoof? There is a link to information about the Shoof on this page.
17. There is a vaccine for foot rot in cattle. You can get more information here. Go to the disease selector again and this time look under footrot. What other cattle disease condition does the foot rot vaccine help prevent?
18. Read about blackleg here.
19. What is the suspected pathogenesis of typical sole ulcers in cattle? You may find the answer here. Is biotin important in hoof health in cattle?
20. There are some more references on herd lameness in cattle. One is found here.
21. Check out the NACFT website. Go to the photo gallery.
22. Here is a good website concerning prevention of lameness in cattle.
23. Here is a website with a quiz on lameness in cattle.
24. Here is a link to the University of Pennsylvania Field Services page with a link to the dairy page and further to the lameness page.
25. Which breed of dairy cattle is most likely to have curled-claw syndrome?
1. McGill University has a pdf file of a powerpoint presentation that reviews bovine metabolic diseases here.
2. Purdue University has a review of hepatic lipidosis in cattle.
3. University of Florida has a review of monitoring health in dairy cows.
4. For information on bovine ketosis and the Ross test (Rothera test) check this.
5. What does a cow's chomosomes have to do with ketosis? Ohio State has information about the risk of ketosis with several dairy cow diseases.
6. Still more information on ketosis can be found here.
7. Here is a link to feeding and managing the transition dairy cow.
8. For information on downer cows check this out.
9. At university clinics what devices are used in the supportive care of downer cows?
10. For more information about downer cows you can check this reference.
11. Here is an excellent reference on transition cow metabolic problems.
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Here are two references to dietary cation anion balance or difference for your reference.
26. Here is the link to evaluation of cow comfort.
27. Which breed of beef cattle is most susceptible to bovine pinkeye?
28. Here is a link to the thermal instrument and technique discussed in class.
29. For more information on Leptospirosis, here is a PDF file.
30. Here is a link to VLA where you can find information on BSE.
31. Here is a link to a page at Purdue with a summary on listeriosis in cattle.
32. Here is some more information on coccidiosis.
33. Here is a link to the Center for Food Security and Public Health at Iowa State University. Check out the animal disease menu.
34. For more information on a number of cattle diseases, the Iowa Beef Center has a number of publications, including on on clostridial diseases.
35. Here is a link to information about a case of botulism in cattle.
37. Here is a link to the Great Plains center.
