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Reproductive efficiency in cattle,

Year of publication 1982

Pages 118

Author Animal Production and Health Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 9252011633

Series title FAO Animal Production and Health Paper

Series number 0254-6019

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The aim of the guideline is to provide veterinarians, and animal production specialists with a useful "vade mecum" for the daily problems of fertility and infertility in cattle. It is intended to cover all phases of the whole reproductive process, starting from its physiology in the male and in the female, and covering natural and artificial breeding, pregnancy, parturition, and the post-parturient period of the dam and calf, up to the point when normal fertility for renewed breeding is regained . Not all aspects will be considered academically, as in most classic textbooks, but emphasis will be laid on those practical problems of greatest economic importance which field workers are regularly confronted with in practice.

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