Zootechnics

Academic text, which provides a clear and precise orientation on the clinical examination of the equine female and its reproductive anatomy, as well as the practice of the most important diagnostic tests.

This book becomes a solid support for professors and students of Animal Husbandry, Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnical Veterinary Medicine, as a text of study and contribution to their training in the disciplinary area, aspects as important as the prevention, surveillance and control of diseases, with incidence in public health, as well as food-borne diseases. Livestock Sciences have ceased to be disciplines oriented to the clinical and productive performance of animals, acquiring the character of professions dedicated, preferentially, to the production of food, for a changing and continuously growing population; the prevention and control of zoonotic diseases, that of domestic and wild animals; food safety; preservation of the environment that, hand in hand with Human Medicine, become forgers of the improvement of the conditions and quality of life of the population.

population. Two of the foods of animal origin that are indispensable for the correct physical and intellectual development of human beings, especially in children, due to their nutritional contributions, are milk and meat; however, these products, in turn, involve physical, chemical and microbiological hazards, which may present a risk to the health of human beings, especially in immunocompromised populations, due to deficiencies related to economically vulnerable populations, which prevent them from having sufficient availability of these foods. It is also a duty, from the livestock professions, to contribute to humanity, to ensure food security, which, more than food production, is the availability, the presence of food; access, i.e., financial ease to acquire it; proper use, through good health and nutrition practices and the stability of the above over time.

The purpose of the text Mathematics for Livestock Sciences is to teach basic concepts necessary for the understanding of the subject of mathematics in the area of Livestock Sciences, as well as to serve as support material for the teacher in the development of the subject. The text includes methodological proposals that will allow students to develop their individual work with the permanent support of the teacher, who has the pedagogical and didactic resources to monitor the strengths and weaknesses of their students.

Through the Animal-Drawn Vehicle Replacement Program, under the Agreement 20121880 between the Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.A. and the Secretaría Distrital de Movilidad S.D.M., supported by Article 98 of the National Land Traffic Code (Law 769 of 2002), which provides for the removal of animal-drawn vehicles in the main cities of the country, the Adopters’ Booklet was prepared, which allows the owner of the animal to assume responsibilities to provide the horse with welfare, enshrined in Colombian law (Law 84 of 1989, by which the National Animal Protection Statute is issued) and in international standards (Universal Declaration of Animal Rights – DUBA, approved by the United Nations).

The purpose of this text is to present to veterinarians and other related professionals, the reproductive problems related to the multiple infectious entities that affect the performance of beef and dairy cattle, analyzed from a practical point of view and focused as an aid in decision making when faced with the manifestation, diagnosis and control of a given infectious entity. For each of the diseases, the prevalence in the country, the pathogenesis mechanisms essential to apply the most adequate control methods, the diagnostic systems available, as well as the methodology necessary for their interpretation are analyzed. A chapter is also dedicated to analyze the bull, semen and embryo transfer, as one of the causes of reproductive problems in cattle herds and its important role in the manifestation of these diseases.

This dictionary is expressly designed as a practical reference tool for a public interested in the areas of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry, useful for students, researchers and teachers. It is a text that includes terms and definitions in two languages, of great precision and variety, which allow the user to organize and understand, correctly, the idea he/she wants to learn and communicate. The dictionary includes, in a succinct but complete way, some usual locutions in the specific areas, with their respective English and Spanish grammar, followed by the transcription, under an internal organization designed in two bodies, that is to say, with the due separation of Spanish – English and English – Spanish, arranged as a catalog or alphabetically, so that its consultation is accessible.

In the last decades, biotechnologies applied to bovine reproduction have been developed, which have efficiently contributed to increase the reproductive capacity and genetic improvement of cattle breeding. These techniques range from artificial insemination to cloning.

The work consists of five chapters, in which the author addresses the importance of Bovine Management and Ethology, orienting them towards the application of the means and methods available to man to achieve the proposed objective, as easily and quickly as possible, without endangering both the physical integrity of man and the animal being managed.