Welcome to the Drovers BRD Resource Center, sponsored by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health. Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) is one of the most costly disease challenges of the cattle industry, including both beef and dairy herds. But it can be controlled through proper management protocols, prevention strategies, and treatment regimens. Our goal for this site is to provide the informational tools that can help you minimize production losses to BRD.
Latest Postings
Are your vaccines and health products working? (Prevention)
The failure of animal products and vaccines often are the result of human error and not the result of a defective product.
Working toward an end to BRD (Prevention)
A multi-disciplinary team of Oklahoma State University scientists and practitioners is riding herd on one of the most challenging concerns of Oklahoma’s $4.6 billion cattle industry: Bovine Respiratory Disease.
Diagnosing bovine respiratory diseases (Treatment)
Bob Glock, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVP, Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, says upper respiratory disease in cattle can be just as problematic as lower respiratory disease or pneumonia.
Reduce weaning stress (Prevention)
Weaning is a stressful period for feeder calves and this event typically results in reduced feed intake and a challenge to the immune system, says Brad White, DVM, MS, Kansas State University.
The impact of disease on carcass traits (Prevention/Treatment)
Several earlier research trials have indicated that sickness in cattle can affect carcass quality and value, and a new report from the USDA’s
Animal agriculture responds to antibiotics challenge (Treatment)
With CBS Evening News delaying its broadcast segment on antibiotic use in food-animal production, national pork and beef producer groups are not wasting time.
Inflammation and behavioral changes in cattle (Treatment)
Animals responding to severe local or systemic inflammation will have a fever, muscle weakness, lethargy and malaise generally expressed by reluctance to move around or associate with herd mates, will groom less, will lie down more, will go off-feed and drink less, explains Dr. Mark Spire, technical services veterinarian for Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health.
ISPAH introduces combination treatment for BRD (Treatment)
Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announced the introduction of Resflor Gold, the only medication on the US market that combines the antibiotic florfenicol (active ingredient in Nuflor Gold)and the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
ISPAH introduces antibiotic for four BRD pathogens (Treatment)
Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health announced the introduction of Nuflor Gold (florfenicol), an antibiotic for the treatment of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) associated with four major bovine respiratory pathogens.
New antibiotic offers dual therapy efficacy against BRD (Treatment)
Dramatic time-lapse video - over a six-hour period - shows a calf improving after being administered Resflor Gold.
Do zinc treatments reduce respiratory disease in sale-barn calves? (Prevention)
University of Arkansas researchers purchased 88 calves from several auction barns, shipped them as a group and processed them upon arrival.
Antibiotics under attack (Treatment)
News article blames antibiotic resistance on livestock production.
Managing Respiratory Diseases in the Herd (Prevention/Veterinarian's Corner)
Year in and year out, diseases of the respiratory system are a major cause of illness and death in cattle from six weeks to two years of age, says Dr. Donald Montgomery, director of the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory.
The 2009 BRD Symposium was held Aug. 5-6 in Colorado Springs, Colo. 
