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JANUARY 2008 HOMEWORK 3
HOMEWORK--section 2
1. Here is the link to the Merck Veterinary Manual Online.
2. 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?3. There is a comprehensive cattle lameness website located here. Go to the lameness tab on the left and check out the information. Also check out the farm technologies tab and look under cow shoes. What is a shoof? Also check here for information on hairy heel warts.
4. 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?
5. A comprehensive slide show on dairy cattle lameness is located here.
I recommend viewing the slide show.
6. Check out this website. From here you can link to a greeting card page and a disease page, among other things. Check out foot rot and blackleg by going to this link.
7. Read about blackleg here.
8. 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?
9. There are some more references on herd lameness in cattle. One is found here.
10. Check out the NACFT website. Go to the photo gallery.
11. Check out the information on radial nerve paralysis and other types of paresis in cattle here. This is a paper about dairy cattle lameness in Florida.
12. Here is a good website concerning prevention of lameness in cattle.
13. Here is a website with a quiz on lameness in cattle.
14. 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.
15. Here is a link to a research paper on lameness.
16. Check out the University of Florida Beef Cattle Publications website. Approximately how much will an owner lose in terms of medication and production loss if a group of feeder calves gets sick at a feedyard? How does one define a "healthy" animal or herd of animals? What is the estimated blood loss per animal per day from an economic threshhold level of horn fly infestation? There are many interesting publications on this website that pertain to topics discussed in class.
17. Check the Merck Manual for a good article on calf diphtheria.
18. Here is an article about a unique method of vaccination.
19. Here is some information about Mannheimia and respiratory disease.
20. Here is some more information about bovine respiratory disease.
21. Of course, there is some more information at this site about respiratory disease in cattle.
22. The Center for Veterinary Medicine can be found here.
23. Read about a genetically engineered shipping fever vaccine here.
24. Read about updated information concerning drug use in food animals here. Here is information about Draxxin and Excede.
25. Check out the this website for information about bovine differential diagnosis.
27. Tufts University has an online course in veterinary respiratory pathophysiology. Check out the image gallery.
28. Here is the link to the Douglas Lake Ranch in British Columbia. What is the predominant cow breed on this ranch?
29. Here is a link to a poster on cattle lameness. Here is a link to a paper on assessing cattle lameness. Here is a link to download a program for your PDA on recording lameness in cattle.
30. Why are Mannheimia pneumonias only seen in ruminants?
