Cattle Footcare and Claw Trimming

Authors: E. Toussaint Raven
Dairy cow lameness with its appalling costs, both financial to the farmer and in suffering to the animal, has come to be regarded as an occupational ailment of dairy cows wherever they are kept in intensive conditions.

This thoughtful text is superbly illustrated with more than 270 diagrams showing just how the foot and claws function, why ailments occur, causes of these disorders and diseases, and the precise role and techniques of claw trimming.

For farmers the book offers ‘answers to urgent practical questions’. Veterinary practitioners and claw trimmers will find a lucid account of a very complex problem
270 b&w diagrams and illustrations

Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2002
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 297 x 210
Weight: Unknown
Extent:128 pp
ISBN: 0 85236 149 1

Book Contents

Foreword by P J N Pinsent
Preface
Introduction
Structure and Functions of the Claw
Disease of the Quick
Trimming
Foot baths
Nutrition
Housing
Breeding
Epilogue
Further Reading
Index
Using Rubber Claw-Blocks