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JANUARY 2008 HOMEWORK 5
1. Utah State 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. One veterinary clinic's approach to treatment of milk fever can be found at this website.
5. For information on bovine ketosis and the Ross test (Rothera test) check this.
6. 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.
7. Still more information on ketosis can be found here.
8. Here is a link to feeding and managing the transition dairy cow.
9. For information on downer cows check this out.
10. At the University of Wisconsin what devices are used in the supportive care of downer cows?
11. For more information about downer cows you can check this reference.
12. Here is an excellent reference on transition cow metabolic problems.
13. Here is the link to vaca resources, Dr. Donald Sanders from Urbana, Ohio.
14. What is the estimated number of sub-clinical cases of mastitis in a herd for every detected clinical case?
15. This website gives an overview of the basics of milking machine function.
16. Questions about mastitis vaccination can be answered here.
17. What is the purported advantage of robotic milking systems?
19. For lots of information about mastitis you can check these links. Which pathogen is linked to udder suicide? Check this link and go to page 5 for the answer.
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Here is some information about stray voltage. What is stray voltage with respect to mastitis and milk quality?
Here is some information about stray voltage. What is stray voltage with respect to mastitis and milk quality?21. Under udder health products, check out Labo Solidago. This is homeopathy.
22. For a review of Streptococcus agalactiae mastitis check out this page from AABP.
23. Here is a link to information from McGill University in Quebec about
treating mastitis without antibiotics.
24. Here is a link to control of coliform mastitis from Utah.
25. Go here for more information about udder singeing. This is a procedure used to improve milk quality.
