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.
Feeding silage, baleage, or apple pulp to pregnant beef cows requires careful management or congenital defects may affect calves.
Old Man Winter made an appearance over the Thanksgiving weekend in many parts of cattle country, challenging producers with rain, freezing rain and even snow depending on where they live.
There has been an increasing interest and utilization of remote medication delivery systems in the beef cattle industry.
The health of stocker cattle on wheat can be managed to increase profit.
Preconditioning is a set of management decisions relating to vaccination, weaning, nutrition and housing that maximize health and future growth potential of cattle in the feed yard.
Preconditioning is a set of management decisions relating to vaccination, weaning, nutrition and housing that maximize health and future growth potential of cattle in the feed yard.
A ‘wreck’ is bound to happen when dealing with high-risk cattle in the feedlot, but their impact can be reduced.
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. (BIVI) announces the introduction of the Market Ready Quality Feeder Calf Preconditioning Program for beef producers.
With the current price of cattle, it is wise to do everything possible to protect your investment.
You might want to consider a “Bud Box” and double alley when building your new cattle handling facilities.
Shade, water, timing of feeding all critical to managing heat stress in cattle.
Beef producers can go antibiotic free and some consumers are willing to pay for it.
Revolutionary ear tags may aid producers in catching cattle diseases at their first signs.
As summer progresses, producers should be on the lookout for summer calf pneumonia.
Nearly 120 cattle producers from 23 states attended Beef Today’s Cow-Calf Cowboy College in Denver, Colo., today. The two-day conference brought cattlemen and women from Delaware to Florida to California, to engage in top notch cow-calf research and profit strategies.
I must confess some consternation with this expectation of restrictions such as protective boots and clothing and bottles of disinfectant.
When it comes to the health of newborn calves, it all starts with the cow.
Branding season or pasture turnout is a natural time point that lends itself well to working calves and preparing them for the summer ahead.
High cattle prices make it important to prevent stocker cattle from having bovine respiratory disease (BRD).
Producers with good, workable chutes are more likely to complete the appropriate practices than an owner with sub-par facilities.
Diagnosing BRD is easy, says Mike Apley, Kansas State University microbiologist—as long as nobody’s checking your accuracy, that is.
Veterinarians seek ways to reduce the incidence of the disease claiming 16% of calves on the ranch
Calves exposed to persistently infected bovine viral diarrhea (BVD-PI) animals are at greater risk for BRD as well
Most beef cattle producers understand the importance of keeping cattle healthy.
Even low-input operations need at least basic handling facilities to load cattle for transport to market or to treat health issues.
Advanced planning with your veterinarian can make the future of your calves and cow herd look even brighter.
The cost of implementing adequate biosecurity measures and associated vaccination protocols is minimal, compared with the cost of even losing one calf, let alone a cow or bull.
Calf scours, the common term for neonatal calf diarrhea, is one of the primary health problems in baby calves.
Vanderbilt University researchers have found a genetic mutation that causes pulmonary hypertension in cattle grazed at high altitude, and which leads to a life-threatening condition called brisket disease.
Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) is one of the costliest diseases in the beef industry, but testing for the illness can bring big returns.