Beef

If you would like help developing a SBS plan this coming summer, Washington State University – College of Veterinary Medicine and WSDA are ready to help you get started!

• Title: The different castration techniques in beef calves.
• Title: An overview of the risks and benefits of drinking unpasteurized cow’s milk.
• Title: Comparison of progesterone based estrus synchronization protocols with differing GnRH and PGF2alpha injections in beef heifers.

• Title: Effects of a farm-specific fecal microbial transplant (FMT) product on clinical outcomes and fecal microbiome composition in preweaned dairy calves
• Title: Transcriptional changes detected in fecal RNA from neonatal dairy calves of different breeds following gastrointestinal disease of varying severity
• Title: Improving farm-level antimicrobial stewardship benchmarks by reporting antimicrobial use within the context of both the magnitude of disease pressure and the outcome of therapy
• Title: Contrasting fecal methanogenic and bacterial profiles of organic dairy cows located in northwest Washington receiving either a mixed diet of pasture and TMR or solely TMR

By Dr. Ben Smith, WA Assistant State Veterinarian, Washington State Department of Agriculture

By Dr. Bruce Hutton, Washington State Department of Agriculture, Region 3 Field Veterinarian

• Title: The relationship between Angus and Santa Gertrudis sired steer calves and Anabolic Implant Protocol relative to steer feeding behavior in the feedlot.
• Title: Rinderpest rights and wrongs: Disease control lessons for the small animal practitioner.
• Title: Common causes of abortion in beef cattle in the Southwest Region of the United States.
• Title: Assessing the relationship between pulmonary lobar consolidation and bacterial prevalence in the upper respiratory tract of Holstein dairy calves.

Effective communication skills are essential for veterinarians to realize their advisory role by exploring and understanding a farmer’s worldview.

• Title: Regenerative agriculture: A veterinary guide to integrative control of GI parasites in pastured Livestock.
• Lop, lop, snip, snip, sizzle. That’s gotta hurt! How are we doing managing pain in cattle.
• Title: Common diseases in backyard flocks: Laying hens.
• Title: Differential gene expression in peripheral leukocytes of pre-weaned Holstein heifer calves with respiratory disease.
• Title: Comparative diagnoses of respiratory disease in preweaned dairy calves using sequential thoracic ultrasonography and clinical respiratory scoring.