The Medicine Calf

Depicts the life of the Medicine Calf, otherwise known as Jim Beckwourth, a trapper who despised the Blackfeet and who was mistaken for the long-lost son of a Crow chief

Beef Practice: Cow-Calf Production Medicine is a text and a reference book for students in animal science and veterinary medicine, practitioners, and nutritionists who work with beef producers. Combining beef production and veterinary diagnosis and treatment, this title provides access to clear, concise, and comprehensive information to veterinarians and animal scientists working with beef producers. This title deals primarily with the cow-calf stocker system, and addresses issues of reproduction, nutrition, and health of cows and calves.

This comprehensive textbook provides detailed information on calving management in dairy and beef cattle. Enriched with diverse learning opportunities, it conveys the fundamentals of reproductive anatomy and physiology, parturition, birth complications and various obstetrical manoeuvres, as well as dam and calf care. In order to promote best practices in this specialized subject, the book covers all significant points from conception to calving and the perinatal period. Clear chapter structures, a wealth of illustrations and videos, obstetrical case studies, and question-and-answer lists round out the reading experience, making the book a unique source of information on how to support mother cows and obtain viable offspring. In addition, readers can download the free Springer Nature Flashcards App and benefit from 77 digital study questions to test their knowledge. Calving is a significant event in terms of providing care and nutrition for mother cows and calves. The reproductive health status in cattle farms is crucial to immediately initiate lactation and new conception. Assistance by technical personnel, dystocia and stillbirth occurrences can reach ca. 50%, 14% and 6% of parturitions, respectively. Hence, zootechnical and veterinary management of calving is of great importance for animal welfare. This textbook makes a valuable contribution to teaching and everyday practice in cattle medicine and obstetrics. Veterinary students, residents, practitioners and technical personnel will discover it to be a rich learning and reference resource.

Bovine Medicine provides practical and comprehensive information oncattle disease and production and is a key reference for all largeanimal vets. Since the first edition was published in 1991 therehave been significant improvements in disease control andmanagement of cattle. Almost all parts of the book have beenupdated and completely rewritten. There are new chapters onsurgery, embryo transfer, artificial insemination, ethno-veterinarymedicine and biosecurity, and a new consolidating chapter on theinteraction between the animal, environment, management anddisease. The previous edition has sold all over the world, and as aresult of this a greater emphasis has been placed on conditions andtheir treatment in areas other than temperate regions. A newsection entitled "Global Variation in Cattle Practice" has beenincluded with contributors discussing bovine medicine practice intheir part of the world. All in all this is an outstanding resource for any practisingvet and an excellent reference for veterinary students.

Thoroughly updated to reflect recent changes in the industry, Bovine Medicine, 3rd Edition, offers practicing large animal veterinarians and veterinary students a comprehensive reference to core aspects of contemporary cattle health and husbandry. New edition of a classic text, featuring thoroughly rewritten text, with coverage shifted to the core aspects of everyday cattle practice Includes new focus on both applied skills and application of knowledge, along with many more full-colour illustrations than in previous editions Represents a toolkit of skills that will support the delivery of contemporary cattle practice Presents a seamless integration of information on husbandry, nutrition, and disease Written by a wide range of experts from around the world

Yellow Calf's Medicine is the sequel to The Unceded Territory. Set in the fall of 1876, it describes the continuing struggle of Rufus Randall and Sarah Locke and their small group to establish a ranch on the Yellowstone River after the defeat of Custer and the continuing efforts of the Sioux to hold on to their life in the Black Hills. Randall continues to suffer from a wound received on the Little Big Horn the night of Custer's defeat which threatens to leave him partially paralyzed. Needing food for the ranch for the coming winter and medical treatment, he signs up with the Fifth Infantry, a colored regiment campaigning against the Sioux under Colonel Nelson Miles, to guide groups of soldiers hauling supplies and to carry dispatches. He partners with Mr. Moore, an Army scout, to guide the soldiers into the town of Deadwood. There Randall finds his friend, Bill Hickok, dead and the town in the hands of the men who attacked Sarah at the ranch in the spring. He returns to the ranch in time to help Sarah defeat a group of criminals trying to take their land, then heads south with the Army hoping to find a doctor that will treat his wound. When no doctor will attempt the operation, he hears of a legendary Indian medicine man, Yellow Calf, who is rumored to be able to cure anything. As winter begins, Sarah goes with Randall to find Yellow Calf and a cure for Randall.