Feeding and Animal Care Clinic

What follows are recommendations, not rules. Donna Minton Williams says so onthe first page, and she means it. Forty two years around animals taught herthat the people worth listening to are the ones who say plainly when somethingis outside their own experience.This is the daily work. Professional care, and building a relationship withyour vet before the four in the morning phone call. Nutrition for people newto cattle. Water, the nutrient everyone forgets. Building a feeding routinethat holds. Reading body condition and seeing an animal properly every day.Show week and travel feeding, which breaks every routine you built.Two chapters go somewhere other feeding books do not. One builds an AIassistant for animal care and feeding. The other builds one for health andtreatment records, which is the paperwork that always slips.Then the reference half: a glossary of feeding and care terms, the commonmistakes, and a straight list of when to call the vet.Written for anybody stepping up to show beef cattle, ages 6 to 21. The 4-H orFFA kid, the parent learning alongside them, and the adult who came to thislater and is showing for the first time.