Calves
Barry Whitworth, Oklahoma State University Extension veterinarian recommends cow-calf operators keep several doses of colostrum or colostrum replacer handy as calving season is underway in many parts of the country.
How can ranchers quickly identify compromised calves and help predict whether they can acquire optimal passive immunity? Elizabeth Homerosky, DVM, Veterinary Agri-Health Services, set out to find answers.
Plans for calving season should include how to identify and manage cold stress in newborns. Here’s what you need to know.
Calf scours results in sickness, poor performance, medical expenses and death. Here’s a look at the complex disease and one management method found to decrease and even prevent transmission.
For many ranchers, large amounts of snow on ground not entirely frozen has led to some wet and muddy situations. Here’s some tips to help make it through the calving season with focus on animal health.
What was the biggest challenge you faced during your last calving season? Here’s a few things to consider and have ready for when that first calf hits the ground.
What should happen at the beginning of life for a baby calf to get off to a good start? Let’s review the sequence of several steps that need to happen.
Raising an orphaned beef calf can be time consuming and may require additional expense. Additionally, calves may not be thriving at the time they are orphaned so managing health and nutrition can present challenges.
When calves on grass drop like flies, have minimal gains and many carcasses are condemned on the rail, Kansas State University experts uncover the unfortunate cause.
Caffeine may help stimulate at-risk calves that are the result of dystocia (difficult birth), hypothermia from being born in the cold, or being run down from a stressful event such as disease or transport.
What’s the reason behind the length of your calving season? When it comes to your improving your bottom line, the length of your calving season may be a good place to start.
When a significant number of cattle died in less than two hours, a number of questions are raised. Kansas State University experts discuss this toxicology case and the answers that were found.
While “high-risk” cattle are often given high levels of hay or forage to aid in the transition to a milled diet, a study at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researches ways to increase performance.
While there are many seasonal preparations to consider before calving season begins, calf scours prevention is not always one that comes to mind. However, the best time to mitigate the risks of the disease is now.
The past year has been no walk in the park for producers. As we prepare to close out another year on the calendar, here’s a look back at the top production stories that cow-calf operations found helpful this year.
Market-ready cattle saw a light trade into a softer market. Packer margins are in the red, but feedlots are firm sellers with showlist numbers declining.
A year of historic droughts causing record-high cow slaughter will be remembered for many years to come. Here’s a look at the cattle industry by number and what we may expect in 2023.
How you feed backgrounded calves may affect how they perform in the feedlot. With higher cattle prices and high input prices this year it’s worth revisiting your backgrounding program.
With some of the highest feed costs in over a decade, producers must consider those costs and the price of calves when determining whether backgrounding might be beneficial this year.
November’s USDA Cattle on Feed report estimated placements at 20-year lows and well below pre-report estimates, confirming this fall’s bullish market has settled in for an extended stay.
Whether calves will be retained and backgrounded or sold shortly after weaning, it is important to consider the impacts of weaning strategies on calf health and performance.
Producers will often ask about the magnitude of the price premium for steers over bulls. In short, the answer is... just not that simple.
No doubt, most cattle producers have had to work out a situation with a calf that is no longer able to nurse its mama. Here’s some tips to help get that calf up and off to the races.
Approaching the time when most spring born calves are sold, it’s a time for producers to make culling decisions for their cow-calf operations. Along with the 3 O’s, consider these cow culling suggestions.
Feeding, management and marketing needs to be evaluated prior to weaning so the best options and management practices are selected.
Why do some of the best calves catch a cough, known as summer pneumonia? K-State experts discuss the disease and what ranchers can do to best mitigate an outbreak in their herd.
Depressed, feverish calves with an increased respiratory rate? Your calves are likely fighting a case of ‘summer pneumonia.’
Weaning is one of the most stressful times in a calf’s life. Here’s how to best prepare your calves and their surroundings for weaning time.
America’s dairy industry has been robust the last several decades. Now, larger average dairies are producing more beef-dairy crossbred calves that are much higher quality for producing beef.
Marketing calves through a value-added program shows real results for a Missouri family farm.