7.9 Examples of improved management practices--Chapter 8 Best management practices on large-scale, intensively managed dairy farms--8.1 Forage production--8.2 Feeding management--8.3 Young stock management--8.4 Disease management--8.5 Reproductive management--8.6 Cow comfort--what it is and why it is so important--8.7 Other measures of herd management--8.8 Milking management--Chapter 9 Developing your observation skills--9.1 What to look for--9.2 Don't just look--observe your stock--9.3 Signals of good and poor health--9.4 Cow signals at the feed trough--Chapter 10 Addressing the problems of stock welfare--10.1 What do dairy cows really want?--10.2 Problems of confinement--10.3 The basic elements of dairy cattle welfare--10.4 Observing and learning from cow behaviour--10.5 Managing surplus stock to the dairy herd--Chapter 11 Introducing the concept of farm business management--11.1 What is good farm business management?--11.2 Breaking down costs and returns on dairy farms--11.3 A case study of the herd dynamics and farm profits achievable on smallholder dairy farms in Malaysia--11.4 A case study of the Feeding Profits achievable on a large-scale intensive dairy farm in Indonesia--Chapter 12 Regional smallholder dairy development programs--12.1 Steps in planning dairy development programs--12.2 The overarching principles of regional SHD development--12.3 The Dairy Smallholder Innovative Program--Chapter 13 The final words--13.1 Constraints to dairy farm developments in Malaysia--a national case study--13.2 Risk in tropical dairy farming--13.3 The relevance of'high technology'to tropical dairy farming--13.4'Words of Wisdom'from Asia Dairy Network's E-Conference on by-product feeding--13.5 FAO course on'Feeding management of dairy cattle in tropical countries'