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.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has authorized the movement of a modified, non-infectious version of the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) virus from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center to the U.S. mainland.
Protect against the devastating impact reproductive diseases can have on your operation’s success.
The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is revising its Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Program Standards to better meet the needs of both animal health officials and the cervid industry.
As cattle producers work to improve health while minimizing antibiotic use, research indicates that supplements influencing microflora in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract can improve gut health and overall immunity.
With anaplasmosis appearing to become more prevalent in some areas, cow-calf producers need awareness of clinical signs, vectors and preventive measures against death loss and abortions in their herds.
Alltech will host a webinar on calf gut health and the importance of nutrition during those first weeks of the calf’s life, on Tuesday, March 27 at 2 PM EST.
While some cattlemen have already started weaning spring-calving herds, October and November are prime times for feeder cattle marketing decisions. What is your weaning strategy this year?
A new K-State publication provides vital information on plants that, if consumed, could harm cattle and other livestock.
This spring’s wicked storms are giving Arkansas ranchers two kinds of headaches: declining hay quality and increased concern for livestock health due debris and bacteria stirred by floodwater.
Although the disease known as grass tetany typically peters out by April, Arkansas cattle ranchers should keep an eye out for the disease well into the late spring months this year, due to heavy rains and cool temperature trends in the region.
At a point in history when a novel virus dominates the news cycle and impacts our lives daily, another novel virus has emerged in the United States – this time, in the cattle population.
The Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences team is working toward a vaccine that would be easier to deliver to livestock and wildlife.
As temperatures begin to increase, health officials in several states are warning livestock and pet owners to be aware of dangerous blue-green algae blooms.
It’s a silent challenge, yet costly to the beef cattle business: liver abscess disease.
Decisions made today will have an impact on a cow herd for years to come.
A treatment for sick cattle that almost always works….suddenly almost never works? It happens when bacteria find ways to defeat the antimicrobial.
While dairymen have used artificial insemination, or AI, profitably for decades, beef producers are starting to show more interest, and for good reasons.
Treating a sick calf may can be a challenge with all the regulations on shared-class antibiotics—unless you have a solid V-C-P-R.
Producers have made substantial progress in reducing the use of antibiotics and helping protect both human and livestock health through improved antibiotic stewardship.
You can’t look at a pen of feedyard cattle and know which ones have liver abscesses. Even technologies like ultrasound or blood tests don’t uncover it, but it costs the industry $60 million annually.
Calving season has begun, in a winter season that has had some extreme temperature swings. Drastic temperature changes can continue to be a concern when caring for newborn livestock.
All sectors of the animal food production industry and partners in human medicine and public health will come together around one of the most important topics in animal and human health today.
Buffalo gnats, or black flies, were blamed for deaths of cattle, horses and deer in Arkansas earlier this year. Now researchers want to quantify the risks and see what control efforts were effective.
New supplements offer value but producers need to determine costs and potential returns for practices they adopt
Low-stress weaning—regardless of how we do it—begins with how we gather and bring in the cattle. If we don’t do it properly, the cows and calves are in panic mode before we even have them in the corral.
For the first time in three years a positive case of brucellosis has been identified in a Wyoming cattle herd.
Whichever way you look at it, increasing the opportunity for profit or decreasing the risk for loss, having an advanced genetic “scouting report” on feeders has value.
When animals have health or performance problems it is almost always because the person in charge of taking care of them is not showing the proper interest in what they need.
One of the things University of Missouri researchers discovered as they looked at heifer development is the importance of identifying the fertility response of heifers before breeding.
We know a lack of water will affect cattle health and performance. What we may forget is that water is a nutrient and has nutritional value that can affect livestock as its quality changes.