Popular MeSH Terms: Cattle

Total Results: 152

• TAMU: Beef Cattle Resources
  Published by the Texas A&M University Animal Science Extension Program Unit, USA. This site offers full text access to a number of short articles on a range of subjects relating to beef cattle, including: breeds, beef quality, general management, genetics and selection, health, nutrition, forages and reproduction.
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• Feeding Dairy Cows
  Online manual published by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. Includes chapters nutrient requirements, how the rumen works, feeds, pastures, and supplements.
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• Artificial Insemination in Dairy Cattle
  This document is a fact sheet from the Dairy Production Guide, published by the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. The first page is an abstract of the document. Click on the PDF symbol in the top right-hand corner to open the full document in .pdf format.
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• NSW Department of Primary Industries: Agnotes - Cattle health and disease
  Collection of Agnotes on the subject of cattle diseases published by NSW Department of Primary Industries.
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• Simmental Australia
  Simmental Australia website.
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• Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries - Dairy
  Collection of resources published by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries. Features sections on the dairy industry, environmental management, feed production and utilisation, and health management.
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• Livestock Library
  This project was developed and funded by the CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies and the Australian Sheep Industry CRC and funded by Australian Wool Innovation Limited. Provides access to beef and sheep industry journal articles, conference proceedings and factsheets. Resources can be searched by Author, Title, or Keyword.
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• Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries - Beef
  Collection of resources published by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries. Features sections on the beef industry, pastures, feedlots, nutrition, genetics, breeding, and health and welfare.
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• The U.S. Cattle Genome Project
  Website supported by the National Animal Genome Research Program (NAGRP). The site consists of a series of links to databases, maps, and other resources.
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• Bovine Abortion in a Large Mexican Dairy Cooperative
  This case study is presented by the UC Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine International Animal Health project. These cases include interactive quizzes and viewing movies. You will need to have Quicktime 4 installed to view the movies.
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• Dairy Today
  Online journal aimed at American dairy producers published by AgWeb.com.
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• Red Angus Society of Australia
  Red Angus Society of Australia website
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• Beef Today
  An online journal from AgWeb.com. This journal is aimed primarily at US beef producers, and covers industry news, personalities, management and practices.
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• Australian Manual for Control of Listeria in the Dairy Industry
  Produced in July 1999 and published the NSW Food Authority, this manual has been developed to assist the dairy industry in the control of Listeria spp in the dairy processing environment. The manual sets out procedures for the monitoring of Listeria spp, as well as procedures should Listeria spp be detected in dairy food or the environment. The manual is in .pdf format, and Acrobat Reader is required to view it.
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• Third International Congress on Yak, Lhasa, Tibet 2000.
  Published on the web by IVIS. Provides the full text of papers presented at Third International Congress on Yak, Lhasa, Tibet 2000. Users need to register with IVIS to access materials. Registration is free.
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• Cow genome resources
  Website hosted by the National Center for Biotechnology Information provides access to a collection of cow genome resources. Includes an interactive viewer for genome maps, sequences, and genes.
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• Beef: Disease Information
  An introduction to beef cattle diseases by Merial. This site divides the endoparasites and ectoparasites into their constituent groups, and looks at their biology, damage to the host and control issues.
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• Dairy
  This site is produced by the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska and contains information sheets on dairy cattle.
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• Charolais Society of Australia Ltd
  Charolais Society of Australia Ltd website
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• Beef care practices
  Beef cattle production information published by the University of California Cooperative Extension. Topics covered include nutrition, reproduction, behaviour and care and management practices.
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• Nitrates in Dairy Rations
  An Ohio State University fact sheet. This sheet covers nitrate level analysis and feeding advice.
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• Livestock Library
  This project was developed and funded by the CRC for Beef Genetic Technologies and the Australian Sheep Industry CRC and funded by Australian Wool Innovation Limited. Provides access to beef and sheep industry journal articles, conference proceedings, factsheets and Beef CRC publications. Resources can be searched by Author, Title, or Keyword.
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• Procedures for in vitro production of bovine embryos
  On-line manual created by staff at the Department of Animal Sciences, University of Florida. Provides detailed instructions for procedures and protocols involved in in vitro maturation, in vitro fertilization, and in vitro culture of embryos.
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• British Mastitis Conference
  The British Mastitis Conference is organised by the Institute for Animal Health. Full text of proceedings from all conferences from 1997 to 2003 are published and are freely available on the web.
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• Dairy Cattle Resources
  Published by the Texas A&M University Animal Science Extension Program Unit, USA. This site offers full text access to a number of short articles on a range of subjects relating to dairy cattle, including: reproduction, nutrition, genetic evaluation, mastitis and herd health.
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• Belmont Red Association of Australia
  Belmont Red Association of Australia website.
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• National Animal Health Monitoring System: Beef Cow-Calf Studies
  "National Animal Health Monitoring System beef cow-calf studies provide information on animal health and health management practices on U.S. cow-calf operations, including research on animal health concerns identified by producers, industry allies, Federal and State agencies, and researchers". Topics covered include heard health management and disease control, salmonella, and reproductive technolgy. Includes results of Beef '97, an extensive study of beef cattle health in the US.
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• Nutrient requirements of beef cattle
  Produced by the Subcommittee on Beef Cattle Nutrition of the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, USA, and published by the National Academy Press, USA, this full text report was updated in 2000 and is freely available online. The online version has a linked contents page, a chapter selector and a page selector feature.
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• Publications and Articles on Genetics and Breeding
  This page is hosted by Purdue University, USA. It provides links to a number of articles on breeding, genetics and artificial insemination in cattle.
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• CaDDiS - Cattle Disease Diagnostic System
  This site is created by the Veterinary Informatics and Epidemiology (VIE) Research Group, a joint venture of the University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow. CaDDiS is a web-based module designed to assist in diagnosis of tropical diseases in cattle. The program calculates the chance of particular diseases based on the presence and/or absence of various symptoms in the animal. Information relating to clinical signs and treatment is also given for the relevant diseases.
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• South Australian Cattle Breeders Association
  South Australian Cattle Breeders Association website.
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• WA department of Agriculture - Dairy cattle
  Collection of resources published by the Western Australian Department of Agriculture. Topics covered include: breeding, genetics and husbandry, grazing management, health, milk and milk products, and nutrition.
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• Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: Cattle
  Full text of Standing Committee of Agriculture and Resource Management (SCARM) Report No. 39 published by the CSIRO. The report contains sections on intensive cattle systems, artificial rearing of calves, handling facilities, health, management practices, agistment, and humane destruction
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• WA department of Agriculture - Beef cattle
  Collection of resources published by the Western Australian Department of Agriculture. Topics covered include: breeding, genetics and husbandry, grazing management, health, meat, and nutrition.
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• TIGR Cattle Gene Index Cattle
  The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) is a not-for-profit research institute whose primary research interests are in structural, functional and comparative analysis of genomes and gene products from a wide variety of organisms. The aim of the Bos taurus Gene Index is to \"represent a non-redundant view of all Bos taurus genes and data on their expression patterns, cellular roles, functions, and evolutionary relationships.
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• Breeds of livestock - Cattle
  Compiled by the Department of Animal Science, Oklahoma State University. An alphabetical listing of cattle breeds with brief notes and images
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• Female Bovine Anatomy
  Compiled by Frank F. Bartol, Professor of Reproductive Biology, Department of Animal & Dairy Sciences, Auburn University, USA. This page consist of a series of images, accompanied by brief descriptions, of the female bovine anatomy. The images and descriptions have been adapted from Pathways to Pregnancy and Parturition,by P. L. Senger, 1997.
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• Romagnola Breeders Society
  Romagnola Breeders Society website
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• Canadian Cattlemen's Association - Factsheets
  Collection of factsheets covering various aspects of beef cattle production. Subjects covered include diseases, use of antibiotics, genetic modification, and hormonal growth promotants.
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• Australian Manual for Control of Salmonella in the Dairy Industry
  Produced in July 1999 and published by the NSW Food Authority, this manual has been developed to assist the dairy industry in the control of Salmonella in the dairy processing environment. The manual sets out procedures for the monitoring of Salmonella. The manual is in .pdf format, and Acrobat Reader is required to view it.
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• Historical livestock gallery
  Hosted by Massey University, New Zealand, this website is a collection of images primarily from the collection of Dr F.W. Dry - a foundation lecturer at Massey Agricultural College - as it was then called. There are two galleries of cattle images, many of them dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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• ARK Database - Cow
  \"The ARKdb database system provides comprehensive public repositories for genome mapping data from farmed and other animal species, providing a resource similar in function to that offered by GDB or MGD for human or mouse mapping data respectively. Data stored includes details of loci and markers, references/papers, authors, genetic linkage map assignments, cytogenetic map assignments, experimental techniques, PCR primers and conditions and any other data pertaining to genome mapping.\" The database can be accessed by locus/marker, by published reference or by map.
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• Dairy: Disease Information
  Published by merial. Contains information on endoparasites and ectoparasites and diseases.
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• Dairy cattle research and education
  Published by the College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky. This website publishes a collection of resources on dairy cattle.
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• Galloway Beef Marketing Association
  Galloway Beef Marketing Association website.
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• Information Resources on the Care and Welfare of Beef Cattle
  Published by the US Department of Agriculture in June 2004. This publication is No. 24 in the Animal Welfare Information Center Resource Series. The site provides an expansive bibliography on beef cattle publications as well as a list of web resources.
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• Forages for Dairy Cattle
  An Ohio State University fact sheet. This sheet covers forage quality measurement, factors affecting forage quality, harvest and storage of forages, and details of forage crops.
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• World Buiatrics Congress, Quebec, Canada, 2004.
  Published on the web by IVIS this site provides abstracts of papers presented at the World Buiatrics Congress, Quebec, Canada, July 11-16, 2004. Also provides the full text of selected papers presented at this conference. Users need to register with IVIS to access material. Registration is free.
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• Combined QTL map of dairy cattle traits
  Project of the Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney. This web page has been constructed to provide an accessible database of studies on quantitative trait loci (QTL) in dairy cattle, providing a summary of each study, and facilitating an easier comparison across studies.
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• AHA: Johne's Disease
  Part of the Animal Health Australia website. The site gives information about the diagnosis, management and control of Johne's disease and details of Johne's disease control programs in Australia. These include the National Ovine Johne's Disease Control and Evaluation Program (NOJDP) and Market assurance Programs (MAPS). Includes a section on Bovine Johne's Disease.
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• OSU Factsheets - Dairy cattle
  Collection of factsheets published by the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service at Oklahoma State University.
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• Blonde d'Aquitaine Society of Australia and New Zealand
  Blonde d'Aquitaine Society of Australia and New Zealand website
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• National Animal Health Monitoring System: Beef Feedlot Studies
  "NAHMS Beef Feedlot studies provide information on the health of the Nation's feedlot-cattle population and health management practices of U.S. feedlot operations, including information on animal health issues identified by the feedlot industry, Federal and State agencies, and researchers". Topics include biosecurity, salmonella, respiratory disease, water quality and injection practices.
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• University of Kentucky Department of Animal Sciences - Forage Publications
  This site contains an extensive list of research papers, published by the Department of Animal Sciences, University of Kentucky, USA, on forage and nutrition in relation to cattle. All documents are available in .pdf format.
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• Recent advances in yak reproduction
  Full text of electronic book edited by Professors X. X. Zhao and R. C. Zhang of Gansu Agricultural University, China and published by the International Veterinary Information Service, Ithaca NY, in 2000. Includes chapters on various aspects of yak reproduction. Users need to register with IVIS to gain access. Registration is simple and free.
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• Countdown Downunder : the national mastitis and cell count control program
  The purpose of this program is to help Australian farmers improve milk quality by implementing measures to reduce the occurrence of mastitis. It features a newsletter and a large amount of information on mastitis and guidelines to manage and prevent this problem.
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• National Animal Health Monitoring System: Dairy studies
  "National Animal Health Monitoring System Dairy studies provide information on health and health management practices on U.S. dairy operations, as well as information on animal health concerns identified by producers, industry allies, Federal and State agencies, and researchers". Includes results of Dairy 2002 an extensive study of the US dairy industry.
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• Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: Land Transport of Cattle
  Full text of Standing Committee of Agriculture and Resource Management (SCARM) Report No. 77 published by the CSIRO. This Code of Practice is intended as a guide for those involved in transporting cattle. It is intended to encourage considerate treatment of the cattle so that transport stress and injury are minimised at all stages of the transport operation.
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• Northern Territory: Beef Cattle
  Published by the Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines. A collection of articles covering health, management, welfare, breeding, and transportation.
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• Beef Cattle Feeding and Nutrition
  Produced by the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, this site contains links to a series of full-text resources on beef cattle nutrition. Topics covered include: creep feeding beef calves, nutrition values of food, feeding cattle in drought and supplementary feeds. The majority of the documents are in .pdf format.
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• BREEDPLAN
  BREEDPLAN is the Australian and international beef cattle performance recording and evaluation scheme. BREEDPLAN uses a computer-aided system (called BreedObject) for estimating the breeding values of cattle. Produced by the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, this site provides links to a series of practical exercises on cattle breeding using this PC software tool.
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• Reproductive Anatomy and Physiology of Dairy Cattle
  This is a fact sheet from the Dairy Production Guide, published by the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, USA. The first page is an abstract of the document. Click on the PDF symbol in the top right hand corner to open the full document in .pdf format.
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• SantaGertrudis Breeders' (Australia) Association
  SantaGertrudis Breeders' (Australia) Association website.
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• Agriculture Notes - Dairy
  Collection of Agriculture Notes published by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. Subject areas covered include: diseases and health, milking, feeding and nutrition, and reproduction and breeding.
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• Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
  This web page is part of the SafeFood website hosted by the Food Safety Campaign Group, a partnership between Australian government, industry, consumer and professional associations. It gives brief details about HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) and key steps for its implementation. The website also has fact sheets on food safety issues and details on food safety regulations.
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• Agriculture Notes - Beef
  Collection of Agriculture Notes published by the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. Subject areas covered include: breeds, diseases and health, feeding and nutrition, drought, and reproduction.
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• Bovine genome database
  The Bovine Genome Database Consortium includes members from Texas A&M University, University of Minnesota, and CSIRO Livestock Industries. The site includes a QTL viewer and database that provides access to all available public domain bovine QTL data for both dairy and beef traits.
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• The Murrain Now Known As Rinderpest
  An article by Gordon R. Scott of the University of Edinburgh. This is an outline of the history of rinderpest (also known as cattle plague)in europe, and the efforts to control the disease and develop a vaccine.
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• Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research and Development
  The Babcock Institute is aligned with the University of Wisconsin. Its aim is to help increase the competitiveness of the dairy industry. The website features areas devoted to recent publications dealing with topical dairy research, the Institute's current research agenda, outreach projects, and educational tools.
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• Holstein Friesian Association of Australia
  Holstein Friesian Association of Australia website
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• Beef/Cattle Extension Program
  Published by Montana State University. Presents a large collection of articles covering animal health, quality assurance, nutrition, reproduction, drought and water.
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• Mycotoxin Contamination of Feedstuffs - An Additional Stress Factor for Dairy Cattle
  An online article by L. W. Whitlow and W. M. Hagler, Jr. about the effects of mycotoxins on dairy cattle.
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• Journal of Range Management
  Hosted by the University of Arizona Library, this site is the full-text archives of the Journal of Range Management from 1948 to 1998. More recent years are also being added over time. Adobe acrobat is required to view the full-text articles.
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• Interactive Bovine In Silico SNP (IBISS)
  This database was created at the CSIRO by Rachel Hawken, Wes Barris and Brian Dalrymple. It aims to \\\"create an in silico SNP database by harnessing the vast number of bovine EST sequences available in the public domain\\\". IBISS is also a database of model bovine mRNAs. The mRNAs have a standard and uniform annotation, based on the human orthologues. \\\"IBISS is searchable using human standard gene symbols, Genbank human Refseq accession numbers, Genbank bovine accession numbers, or by text searches of the descriptions and by sequence using BLAST.\\\" Users need to register to access the database. Registration is free.
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• Beef Cattle Parasite Controls
  Produced by the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service at Oklahoma State University, USA, this full-text article outlines the control of pests such as the horn fly, stable fly, black fly, heel fly and mosquito. The document is in .pdf format.
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• Information Resources on the Care and Welfare of Dairy Cattle
  Published by the US Department of Agriculture in August 2002. This publication is No. 16 in the Animal Welfare Information Center Resource Series. The site provides an expansive bibliography on dairy cattle publications as well as a list of web resources.
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• Cattle Council of Australia
  Cattle Council of Australia website
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• Beef cattle production
  This site is produced by the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska and contains information sheets on beef cattle production.
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• University of Kentucky Department of Animal Sciences - Dairy Nutrition Publications
  This site contains links to over 80 full-text articles on dairy nutrition published by the Department of Animal Sciences, University of Kentucky, USA. All documents are available in .pdf format. The articles have been divided into the following broad categories: milking cows, dry cows, calves, and heifers. The site also links to an extensive collection of forage research publications.
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• Co-grazing cattle and camels
  A report for the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation by Andrew Phillips, Dr Jürgen Heucke, Dr Birgit Dörges, and Greg O\'Reilly published June 2001.
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• Information on breeding technologies
  This page provides a series of articles about the technology of artificial breeding and insemination. Some of the articles are taken from the book \\\"Cattle Breeding Technologies\\\" by Genetics Australia, 1996. The page is hosted by Genetics Australia.
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• AUSVETPLAN: Disease strategies
  "AUSVETPLAN is a series of technical response plans that describe the proposed Australian approach to an exotic disease incursion". These are published for a series of diseases on the Animal Health Australia website. The plans provide details of the nature of the disease and principles of control and eradication.
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• The Dairy Research and Development Corporation
  The Dairy Research and Development Corporation (DRDC) site is a good starting place for information about current research being in the Australian industry of Australia.
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• The Australian Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme
  ADHIS is an initiative of the Australian Dairy Farmers' Federation. The core activity of ADHIS is to calculate Australian Breeding Values (ABVs) for dairy traits. ADHIS maintains a national database of performance and pedigree details for individual dairy animals which is regularly updated with data collected by milk recording organisations and breed societies.
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• CRC for Cattle and Beef Quality
  The Cooperative Research Centre for Beef undertakes large scale investigations to identify the major genetic and non-genetic factors influencing beef quality. The site provides details of its research projects and publications.
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• Dairy Cattle Feeding and Nutrition
  Produced by the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, this site contains links to a series of full-text resources on dairy cattle nutrition. The majority of the documents are in .pdf format only.
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• Cattle - breeding and selection
  Collection of articles published by NSW Department of Primary Industries on cattle breeding and reproduction.
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• Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections
  This is the section for Zebus (Bos taurus indicus) of the Comparative Mammalian Brain Collections site, a joint project of the University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University and the National Museum of Health and Medicine. There is over thirty breeds of Zebus - the sacred cattle of India - of which four main strains have been introduced into the US. The site provides information and images of sectioned and stained brains
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• Shorthorn Society of Australia
  Shorthorn Society of Australia
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• NSW Department of Primary Industries - Dairy cattle
  Collection of resources published by the NSW Department of Primary Industries. Topics covered include: feeding and nutrition, health and disease, breeding and selection, dairy facilities, and dairy industry research.
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• A Guide to the Implementation and Auditing of HACCP
  The guide to HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) was approved by ARMCANZ (Agriculture Resource Management Council of Australia & New Zealand) to \\\\\\\"help the meat industry use HACCP in a logical and practical way and to understand what auditors will require from operators\\\\\\\".
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• NSW Department of Primary Industries - Beef cattle
  Collection of resources published by the NSW Department of Primary Industries. Topics covered include: feeding and nutrition, health and disease, breeding and selection, yards and equipment, and husbandry and management.
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• Cattle Genome Mapping Project
  Publishes results of a project by US Department of Agriculture Meat Animal Research Center including linkage maps and marker tables. The site also allows the user to search the database for markers by name.
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• Brucellosis in the Greater Yellowstone Area
  This online book looks at the incidence of brucellosis in the bison population of Yellowstone National Park, the transmission of this disease between cattle and wildlife species, and the efficacy of diagnostic testing and transmission control programs. The book is the result of a 6 month study by the National Academy of Sciences.
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• Calf Notes.com
  Created by Dr. Jim Quigley, this website publishes information on raising young dairy calves. There are sections on housing, feeding, weaning, and health management.
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• Murray Grey Beef Cattle Society Limited
  Murray Grey Beef Cattle Society Limited
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• Beef Research and Education Program
  Published by the College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky. This website publishes a collection of resources on beef cattle.
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• NSW dairy manual
  This manual, published by SafeFood NSW, is a practical guide designed to help dairy licence holders comply with the law and help them have procedures and practices in place to ensure milk and dairy products are safely produced and sold. The manual consists of several chapters in .pdf format.
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• Fourth International Congress on Yak, 2004
  Published on the web by IVIS. Provides the full text of papers presented at the Fourth International Congress on Yak, 2004 - Chengdu, China. Users need to register with IVIS to access materials. Registration is free.
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• Bovine Theriogenology Images
  Published by the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine. A coleection of images from the teaching files of R. G. Elmore, D.V.M., M.S. Diplomate American College of Theriogenology.
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• Treating for Internal Parasites of Cattle
  Authored by R. L. Morter and Larry Horstman, from the School of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University, USA. This publication recommends times to worm, types of wormers commonly used, withdrawal time before slaughter and methods of administration to various classes of cattle.
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• Missouri dairymen's resource guide
  Collection of resources compiled by the University of Missouri Extension. Categories include: herd management, feeds and nutrition, health and reproduction, milk quality, and grazing.
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• Charbray Society of Australia Ltd
  Charbray Society of Australia Ltd website
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• OSU Factsheets - Beef cattle
  Collection of factsheets published by the Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service at Oklahoma State University. Topics covered include: nutrition, livestock management, meat production, and diseases
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• Nutrient requirements of dairy cattle
  Produced by the Subcommittee on Dairy Cattle Nutrition, Committee on Animal Nutrition, National Research Council. This publication looks at the use of new technologies and information in the field of dairy cattle nutrition.
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• NetVet's Cow Page
  This information gateway, part of the larger NetVet site, consists of a large collection of useful links to resources pertaining to cattle, the dairy and beef industry and relevant organisations and authorities.
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• Topics in bull fertility
  Full text of electronic book edited by P. J. Chenoweth, BVSc PhD and published by the International Veterinary Information Service, Ithaca NY, in 2000. Includes chapters on bull sex drive and reproductive behaviour, sexing sperm, evaluation of frozen semen, and bull breeding soundness evaluation with further chapters to be added in the future. Users need to register with IVIS to gain access. Registration is simple and free.
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• Beef cattle: health and welfare
  A collection of Agnotes on animal health and diseases published by the Northern Territory Government Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Mines.
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• Dairy Cooperative Research Centre (CRC)
  The Dairy Cooperative Research Centre provides dairy farmers, processors and manufacturers with access to advanced technologies and products. The site provides details of the centre´s research and education projects and publications.
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• Bovine Theriogenology Images
  This is a Kansas State University site. It is a file of bovine theriogenology images from the teaching files of R. G. Elmore, D.V.M., M.S.
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• Cattle: Beef and Dairy
  Collection of resources on the breeding, husbandry, health and welfare of beef and dairy cattle.
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• The effects of road transportation on cattle and calves
  Philipzen, Rosemary, 2000
  Animal welfare essay. The effects of road transportation on cattle and calves
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• Intensive dairy systems: health implications of confined housing and the influence of stress management on welfare
  Biasutti, Sara, 2005
  Animal welfare essays. Intensive dairy systems: health implications of confined housing and the influence of stress management on welfare
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• Minimisation of pain in cattle castration with respect to method, age and pain relief
  Rajkumar, Dharshinee, 2006
  Animal welfare essay. Minimisation of pain in cattle castration with respect to method, age and pain relief.
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• Minimisation of heat stress to improve the welfare of feedlot cattle
  Shirlow, Gwen, 2005
  Animal welfare essay. Minimisation of heat stress to improve the welfare of feedlot cattle.
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• Improving the welfare of artificially-reared dairy calves by modelling rearing practices on natural calf behaviour with conspecifics
  Mitchell, Tamira Jennifer, 2004
  Animal welfare essay. Improving the welfare of artificially-reared dairy calves by modelling rearing practices on natural calf behaviour with conspecifics. Wally McGreevy Prize Winner 2004.
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• Animal welfare issues in the slaughter of cattle
  Wimpole, Justin, 2001
  Animal welfare essay. Animal welfare issues in the slaughter of cattle
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• Human-animal relationships and productivity on the farm
  Parsons, Belinda, 2001
  Animal welfare essay. Human-animal relationships and productivity on the farm.
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• Advances in Dairy Cattle Welfare Assessment
  Shortridge, Heather, 2006
  Animal welfare essay. Advances in Dairy Cattle Welfare Assessment
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• Housing dairy cows
  Patterson, Kate, 2001
  Animal welfare essay. Housing dairy cows.
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• Looking at the causes of stress in cattle transported by road
  Batty, Martin, 2002
  Animal welfare essay. Looking at the causes of stress in cattle transported by road
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• Recent Research into Animal Welfare Issues Concerning Routine Surgical Procedures Associated with Cattle Production Systems
  Adby, Natalie, 2006
  Recent Research into Animal Welfare Issues Concerning Routine Surgical Procedures Associated with Cattle Production Systems
  [28-02-2007]
• Animal Welfare Essays
  A collection of essays from third year Veterinary students in the course Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science
  [25-07-2007]
  [25-07-2007]
• Developments in welfare for beef cattle in abattoirs: post-lairage to slaughter
  Downing, Anneliese, 2007
  Animal Welfare Essay: Developments in welfare for beef cattle in abattoirs: post-lairage to slaughter
  [17-09-2007]
• Effect of flooring on the welfare of housed dairy cows
  Yee, Foong Lai, 2007
  Animal Welfare Essay: Discusses three papers that investigate the welfare of freestall-housed Friesian cows on different types of flooring.
  [18-09-2007]
• Developments in the recognition, measurement and alleviation of pain in cattle
  Healy, Michael, 2007
  Animal Welfare Essay: Discusses recent developments in our understanding of pain in cattle, and overall implications for cattle welfare of recent findings
  [18-09-2007]
• CAB Abstracts via ISI Web of Knowledge (1910
  The place to start for agriculture, food and natural resources, covering local and international material.
  [25-01-2008]
• BIOSIS Previews via Web of Knowledge 1926-
  BIOSIS Previews replaces and contains Biological Abstracts BIOSIS contains 15 million records including citations to journal articles on biology, botany, zoology, microbiology, clinical and experimental medicine, biochemistry, biophysics, instrumentation and methods.
  [08-02-2008]
• ScienceDirect
  ScienceDirect is a Web database for scientific research in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences available through the Internet.
  [08-02-2008]
• Medline via Ovid
  Contains bibliographic references and abstracts to articles in a range of languages on topics such as clinical medical information , biomedicine, including the allied health fields, veterinary biological and physical sciences.
  [08-02-2008]
• Medline via Web of Knowledge 1950-
  Contains citations to articles on topics such as clinical medicine, biomedicine, allied health, veterinary, biological and physical sciences.
  [13-02-2008]
• PubMed
  PubMed provides access to around 9 million records found in the PubMed database of bibliographic information, drawn primarily from MEDLINE and PreMEDLINE. In addition, for participating journals indexed \\\'selectively\\\' for MEDLINE, Pub Med includes all articles from that journal, not just those that are included in Medline.
  [13-02-2008]
• Web of Science via ISI Web of Knowledge
  One of the largest Science databases with good coverage of agriculture, food and natural resources. It also provides citation analysis of authors, journals and subject areas.
  [13-02-2008]
• Reducing Excessive Heat Load in Feedlot Cattle
  Chong, Amanda, 2008
  Investigates different ideas for reducing heat stress in large production animals.
  [09-09-2008]
• Animals
  This is the animals page.
  [16-09-2008]
• Stepping Out: Recent Advances in Detecting Lameness in Dairy Cattle
  Worthing, Kate, 2008
  Examines lameness caused by limb lesions in cattle, particularly of the hoof. Discusses ways of detecting lameness, which can be challenging as cattle tend to mask their pain.
  [16-09-2008]
• Reducing Weaning Distress in Dairy Calves
  Griffin, Kelli, 2008
  Examines management practices that may reduce the distressed caused during weaning in dairy calves.
  [12-01-2009]
• 'Positive' Human-Cattle Interactions: To what extent can Positive Tactile Handling Improve the Welfare of Dairy Cows?
  de Lavaulx, Isabelle, 2008
  Discusses recent developments in our knowledge of human-to-cattle positive tactile interactions and the overall implications of these findings for the welfare of dairy cows.
  [12-01-2009]
• Reducing Weaning Distress in Dairy Cattle: Welfare Considerations for Cow and Calf
  Shergold, Amy, 2008
  Examines the weaning process and how it affects the welfare of dairy calves.
  [12-01-2009]
• Improving the welfare, ease of handling and productivity of calves through increased human contact and assessment of efficacy of current handling aids
  Briscoe, Katherine Anne, 2001
  Discusses ways to improve the welfare of calves by increased human contact, in an age where opportunities for handling are being replaced by machanisation.
  [30-03-2009]
• Measurements of fear in dairy cattle: a review of latest findings
  Coggins, Sally, 2005
  Discusses the assessment of fear in cattle, and its implications in animal welfare.
  [06-04-2009]
• Detection of lameness in dairy cattle
  Colville, Melanie, 2004
  Discusses methods of assessment for lameness in dairy cattle.
  [06-04-2009]
• Calf Dehorning
  Drew, Melissa, 2000
  Looks at ways of reducing the pain and stress of calf dehorning, a common husbandry practice.
  [09-04-2009]
• The effects of road transport on the welfare of cattle
  Egan, Siobhan, 2005
  Looks at studies that have attempted to improve animal welfare by evaluating the causes of stress in transported cattle, with the aim of improving standard practice.
  [09-04-2009]
• Welfare of Housed Dairy Cows
  Fiani, Nadine, 2003
  Examines the probable effects that factors such as bedding material, floor friction and space allowance, may have on the resting behaviour and welfare of dairy cows.
  [09-04-2009]
• Improving the welfare of feedlot cattle
  Fitzgerald, Louise, 2003
  Looks at ways of improving the welfare of intensively farmed cattel. Two approaches are discussed: reducing heat stress and providing environmewntal enrichment.
  [14-04-2009]
• The effect of housing type on lying behaviour in dairy cows
  Giblin, Fiona, 2003
  Investigates the effects of different housing environments on behaviour, performance and health, and more specifically, the effect of housing on lying behaviour.
  [14-04-2009]
• The effect of various handling strategies on the welfare of dairy cattle
  Ingenhoff, Luke, 2004
  Looks at three studies that have investigated the way in which cattle react to a variety of handling techniques.
  [15-04-2009]
• Beef cattle feeding and nutrition
  A NSW Dept Agriculture page on beef cattle. Contains links to many publications about nutrition for beef cattle.
  [16-06-2009]
• Livestock feed costs & nutritive value
  DPI NSW
  [22-06-2009]
• Exploring Dairy Cows’ Perception of 'Positive Treatment' to Determine its Usefulness in Improving the Human-Animal Bond and Animal Welfare
  Lurie, Jenna, 2009
  Examines how positive treatment towards dairy cows in the form of stroking can improve animal welfare and the human-animal bond.
  [22-10-2009]
• Organic and non-organic farming: implications for dairy cattle health and welfare
  Rigby, Melissa, 2009
  Examines the welfare of dairy cattle, refering to organic farming practices and the management of mastitis and lameness.
  [26-10-2009]

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