The Cattle Health Handbook

Excellent book for any cattle rancher! The author, Heather Smith Thomas, has walked the walk and raised more than 6000 calves since 1967. A rancher herself Ms Thomas has produced a very practical and easy to read health handbook for raising cattle. Jammed packed with excellent illustrations, drawings and medical reference footnotes--this has to be the best cattle-health handbook on the market! My book is so worn and a little manure covered I'm purchasing a new one and the return on investment will be worth the hard cash outlay. My cattle are my children and it was so rewarding to find an author that feels the same way. Well written book and superbly published. Forget the other handbooks, I've read most of them--then a cattleman loaned me this book and I was amazed, gratefull and hooked! The sun will fade the cover and manure will stain the pages but your cattle will know they are loved and well cared for, not to mention the financial payback from reduced vet bills and your own stress! Thank you Amazon and please send Ms Thomas my kind regards and gratitude.

Awesome, helpful, well put together. Been ranching for YEARS and still learned tons from this book. Buy it!

Great book to help with finding basic solutions to some cow issues and have an idea of health issues. It also gives advice for a healthy environment and diet for herds.

Gathering Notes is the easy part and the most important things (that I consider Important) I email to my dad. Being new to raising cattle, and living in a humid environment, is hard to keep up with every thing that is in the soil. Though the family started to own cattle about three years ago my parents are just have accepted the fact that the environment here on east Texas is very different than the hot-dry from their small town in Mexico. This book provides us with understanding and new methods besides only going to the vet. Looking forward to buying Essential Guide to Calving!

This thing has everything. LOVE IT!!!

A must have if your wanting to get into cattle.We reference to it often when something seems off and not sure what it is.I like to look through it to keep things in the front of my brain. Vets are expensive and don't want to call ours unless I have to!

Good product

Great book

This book is amazing! It's so informative and there are some medical terms but it is written very well to where you can understand it. I'm a newbie to the cattle industry and I feel like just from skimming through this book I already know alot more than I did before!

Excelllent book for the more advanced cattle owner and breeder. Fills the gap between "intro tomes" and textbooks with sufficient veterinary information that allows intelligent decisions when to call for help and what to do in their absence. Truly wish I had this book when we first started. Recommend highly to new and experienced operators.

Excellent book for any cattle rancher! The author, Heather Smith Thomas, has walked the walk and raised more than 6000 calves since 1967. A rancher herself Ms Thomas has produced a very practical and easy to read health handbook for raising cattle. Jammed packed with excellent illustrations, drawings and medical reference footnotes--this has to be the best cattle-health handbook on the market! My book is so worn and a little manure covered I'm purchasing a new one and the return on investment will be worth the hard cash outlay. My cattle are my children and it was so rewarding to find an author that feels the same way. Well written book and superbly published. Forget the other handbooks, I've read most of them--then a cattleman loaned me this book and I was amazed, gratefull and hooked! The sun will fade the cover and manure will stain the pages but your cattle will know they are loved and well cared for, not to mention the financial payback from reduced vet bills and your own stress! Thank you Amazon and please send Ms Thomas my kind regards and gratitude.

Awesome, helpful, well put together. Been ranching for YEARS and still learned tons from this book. Buy it!

Great book to help with finding basic solutions to some cow issues and have an idea of health issues. It also gives advice for a healthy environment and diet for herds.

Gathering Notes is the easy part and the most important things (that I consider Important) I email to my dad. Being new to raising cattle, and living in a humid environment, is hard to keep up with every thing that is in the soil. Though the family started to own cattle about three years ago my parents are just have accepted the fact that the environment here on east Texas is very different than the hot-dry from their small town in Mexico. This book provides us with understanding and new methods besides only going to the vet. Looking forward to buying Essential Guide to Calving!

This thing has everything. LOVE IT!!!

A must have if your wanting to get into cattle.We reference to it often when something seems off and not sure what it is.I like to look through it to keep things in the front of my brain. Vets are expensive and don't want to call ours unless I have to!

Good product

Great book

This book is amazing! It's so informative and there are some medical terms but it is written very well to where you can understand it. I'm a newbie to the cattle industry and I feel like just from skimming through this book I already know alot more than I did before!

Excelllent book for the more advanced cattle owner and breeder. Fills the gap between "intro tomes" and textbooks with sufficient veterinary information that allows intelligent decisions when to call for help and what to do in their absence. Truly wish I had this book when we first started. Recommend highly to new and experienced operators.

I have recommended this book ever since I got it. It was written by an elderly woman who raised cattle and is written in a way you can understand without having to take a pre-vet med course. Highly recommend this even if you have a few cows or several hundred.

This book makes it super quick to find your suspected illness and get moving on treatment. Should be in everyone's library.

For those of us just getting into raising cattle and need some knowledge this is a great source

Excellent and detailed health guide. You will need other references for grazing management, animal handling, etc.

great book and great service

My son has a special interest in agriculture. He loves looking through this and has found it very helpful.

Received quick. Great book, a lot of info.

I bought this book as a Christmas gift for my daughter who majored in Agriculture sciences in college and recently graduated. Her graduate studies will focus on cattle and other ruminant animals. She was excited to get the book. Thinks it will be very useful.

I bought this for my father who was starting a small beef herd. He has referenced it numerous times and found helpful information

Excellent resource for someone with limited vet care.

Good reference book for dairy and beef cows. a must have.

We raise a lot of bottle calves. Some of them always have new problems. This book has helped us a lot in getting the problems figured out and helping treat.

A great addition to our farm library. Extremely useful information at all times and one reference book we keep close by

good book

Excellent book for learning about cattle ranching.

This book is the best! If you have cattle or are thinking about investing in a small herd, I recommend this book 100%.

Helpful reading

Love this book so much! I have learned so many things.

Lots of great info in this book. Has been helpful with managing our herd.

Highly recommended if you own cattle.

Good book helpful

This is a terrific book for novice cattle owners. Chocked full of essential information organized in an easy to read and understand format.

This book will help me keep my cattle healthy and happy.

Good information

REALLY GOOD DID EVERYTHING I NEEDED IT TO

This is highly informative! A must have book if you own cattle. It's filled with tons of info and cures regarding the health and possible diseases cattle get.

Contents in this are out dated

For a cattle rancher who is very hands on and wants to keep on top of illness without calling the vet every week, this will help you recognize when you can treat, and when the vet needs to come in. Also a lot of general information for keeping them healthy to start with. Good info on medications as well.

Easy read, like content

Very helpful

Fantastic book! Recommended to rookie farmers and those who've been in the business for generations! Love it!

This book is great if you are an experience cattleman or if you are experiencing some sort of medical issue with your cattle, but it's a little overwhelming for a novice & anyone not familiar with medical terminology.

lots of info here

I started working with beef cattle just the last few months and this book has been wonderful. It starts with the most simple stuff like how and where to give shots or how to make a halter to explaining the characteristics and treatment of all the different diseases possible. Worth your money.

A nice handbook to have on the shelf. clear descriptions of ailments and descriptive pictures.

A trusted resource in my library. I refer to it often.

It was a great reference.

Excellent condition

Helpful for beginners

This was a gift.

It is in excellent condition and I look forward to learning from the experts on how to keep cattle healthy.

good read

Easy reading, informative, plenty of practical information. Ii would recommend.

Using for information in cattle health

I bought this book for a friend who loves it.

easy to read with good tips

Very useful book. Highly recommend.

Delivered on time and was as expected

Excellent book all around!!

Very helpful.

Haven't finished but so far great book

Good. Book o have. Around. Fast shipping!

Helpful resource

Very informative

This book was very informative and easy to read. It isn't crammed full of medical & scientific jargon that makes it hard to understand; it gives you the terminology that is essential and easy. One of my calves was recently ill and used to book to determine what signs there are for pneumonia and immediately gave the calf antibiotics. He is now fully recovered.

Useful book for anyone raising cattle, covers all the things a new or old cattleperson needs to know to keep a healthy herd.

Received and looking forward to reading it.

Lots of info that will come in handy

This is a great book that has so much information. It truthfully is helpful when trying to look up information on you animals.

Great reference book!

Great for me new to the cattle , Enjoyed it so for. Sure that others will buy this book lot of good read here.

Very Informative!

No problem with delivery or the book itself. I'm happy.

5 STAR Seller!!!

Awesome book, I was able to immediately put to use as the book the gave me the insight that was needed to get my cows back on the road to recovery. I definately recommend this book to others.

This book offers solutions in an easy way - easy to find and easy understand what could be wrong with our cattle.

Very informative. I deal a lot with cattle and find myself often turning to this book, or photo copy pages and pass along to owners. Would highly recommend.

This book was very helpful to me. Its very detailed. And full of useful information, that even a beginner would understand. Highly recommended.

It was for my grand-daughter for Christmas and she says that it will be very valuable to her for her studies.

Exactly what I expected

Is a really good book where you can find basic things and about cattle. Really useful and clear, I recommend it.

Excellent info. HAD INFO MY VET DIDN'T KNOW. I highly recommend for anyone who owns cattle. Good value for the price.

Great book. So helpful and full of good pictures! Lots of gread info and so many things you just never think of. Love it!

Very handy book to have. We raise a few bummer bottle calves each year. The type that we only get because they are nearly dead anyway and the rancher gives us to them to try to save, and keep if we do. We are more than 100 miles from the vet, so we need to be able to assess and help the babies as best we can, or lose them. This book is pretty thorough on most cattle emergencies, diseases and plenty of preventative ideas. It is in a format that pretty much anyone can understand and learn from. I'm sure this will be a go to book each year when the new babies who come in with something unusual each year. I would recommend this book highly to ANYONE who raises cattle, from a couple bottle babies, to a very large herd.

This book was wonderful as we recently purchased brood cows and calves. VERY helpful.

A friend of mine is a cattle breeder (AI). He had surgery recently and I sent him this as a get well card. He loved it! Not much more to say.

EXCELLENT HANDBOOK

Not as good as I thought it woud be. Not a bad book, but I was looking for something that would make it easier to ID diseases and problems. This isn't the best book for that.

As a 3rd generation ranch family, this is a very helpful book. You don't need to be a vet to understand it but it isn't just a bunch of general information for the hobby rancher who doesn't know scours from pink eye.

Yes I started to have better understanding by reading on this book

My KINDLE for PC will not work, will not open. I have done all the suggestions on trouble shooting, and still NOTHING! Very disappointed. I want to read this book and need to have it for a reference as well. If you have any advice let me know!

Very pleased. Thanks

very good vet book

Absolutely love this book!! Bought it for my partner recently and now he always has a flick through it before he calls the vet!! And does a little night reading with it instead of scouring the internet for multiple and numerous nonsense ideas/answers!?! 🙄 This book is direct and on point, perfect for any farmer!!! 😍

Not read this yet, but scanned through it seems pretty good..

Disapointing. I want to know how to keep my cattle healthy, not how to treat diseases. This book is the typical scientific approach to cattle management, find a disease and treat it. Not for me.