Cattle health
Dr. Dan Thomson shares essential tips for injections, needle selection and syringe maintenance to ensure herd health and carcass quality.
Although mastitis, an infection of the udder, is often considered a dairy cow problem, the disease may also impact beef producers. Here’s what you need to know and look for and how to help protect your herd.
A number of causes and contributing factors can result in hair loss and itching, and last year’s drought has played a role as harvested forages may be low in vitamin A.
At cow culling time, producers often face some tough decisions. Optimum culling of the herd often seems to require a sharp crystal ball that could see into the future.
Routine and continued use of anthelmintics have created resistance in some populations of internal parasites.
Ensure product efficacy by dosing and storing injectable dewormers correctly.
Knowing when to deworm your cattle can be quite profitable.
Veterinarians have an opportunity to help clients improve production efficiency and returns with customized parasite control.
Fly control is one of the summer chores we all dread. It is frustrating, time-consuming and dips into our profits. When dealing with flies on cattle, there are essentially two species involved: horn flies located on the backs of cattle and face flies.
Don’t forget to keep flies away from your cattle to prevent the spread of pinkeye.
As late spring and early summer approaches, livestock producers should begin the process of evaluating their pasture fly control options for their specific management system.
As late spring approaches, livestock producers should evaluate and select pasture fly control options available for their specific management system.
Develop a strategic deworming strategy now to reduce potential problems in the future
In Dairy cattle, follow the label for treatments during November and December
Anaplasmosis and pinkeye can negatively impact the health, performance, and profit potential of the cattle operation. These control measures can help.
The time is now to start planning for parasite control prior to grazing.
You can help delay drug resistance in parasites, as more complex strategies create need for veterinarian oversight.
For many years, the biggest questions producers faced in controlling internal parasites related to timing.
Texas A&M study aims to reduce cattle reproduction failures, economic losses.
FADs are a constant threat to the livestock industry. The country is more tuned in to this struggle than ever before with the recent COVID-19 pandemic. National Pork Board’s Dave Pyburn and NCBA’s Ethan Lane discuss why.
If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught the country anything, it’s that there is a tremendous amount of synergy between the circumstances of a pandemic involving humans and those involving animals.
Concerns about COVID-19 have people worried about the health and safety of their families, businesses and livestock. Here’s a recap of the methods in which disease is spread.
Numerous controlled and blinded trials have shown that in high-risk calves arriving at feedlots or stocker operations, mass treatment with an antibiotic significantly reduces BRD sick pulls and mortality.
The West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) has confirmed the presence of Theileria orientalis Ikeda genotype in three West Virginia counties.
The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) adopted a rule to mitigate the risk of uninfected cattle being exposed to bovine viral diarrhea virus persistently infected (BVDV-PI) cattle.
Researchers Identify Genomic Markers for Risk of Bovine Congestive Heart Failure
This week, the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) released its 2016-2017 NARMS Integrated Summary.
Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), a mosquito-borne virus, most years presents a serious disease challenge to horses and other equines during the summer and fall months.
Hospital pens play a key role in helping animals recover from sickness, and also in preventing the spread of disease to other cattle in a feedlot.
This year’s outbreak of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) hasn’t died out yet, but has tapered off significantly as fall weather freezes out the insect vectors associated with the disease.