Beef Agskills provides a basic guide to some of the skills and practices of beef production.  The book contains step-by-step instructions, diagrams and full-colour pictures.  Published in 2005, Beef Agskills is 80 A4 pages.

Table of Contents: 

• General safety precautions
• Animal welfare
• Quality assurance
• Working safely in yards
• Working safely with cattle in a bailhead
• Drafting and counting cattle
• Recognising and avoiding stress
• Mouthing, drenching, vaccinating and injecting sick cattle
• Heat detection in cattle
• Problems associated with calving
• Castrating calves
• Individual identification of livestock
• Dehorning calves
• Early weaning of beef cattle
• Paddock appraisal of beef cattle, and
• Safe work method statements.

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