Introduction
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CurrentThis topic area is made up of a series of resources for you to use to develop your understanding of gestation and birth.
Gestation and birth
Not published to studentsCurrent
This topic area is made up of a series of resources for you to use to develop your understanding of gestation and birth.
It introduces the following:
- The main events of fertilisation, gestation and parturition
- The role of hormones during gestation and parturition
- The physiological changes taking place during birth
When you have completed all these lessons you should be able to describe the main components and functions of the normal events during fertilisation, gestation and parturition.
Use the links below to access the content.
- Lesson
Fertilisation
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Further reading
Further reading suggestions about gestation and birth
You will find more books and other resources in your college library. These may include:
R. D. Frandson, Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals (6th Ed). Lippincolt, Wiley Blackwell, 2003
D.R. Lane and B Cooper, Veterinary Nursing (3rd edition). Butterworth Heinemann, 2003
William O Reece, Functional Anatomy and Physiology of Domestic Animals (3rd Ed). Wiley Blackwell, 2004