Beef

Pinkeye in cattle, or bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK) is a contagious eye disease that affects herds worldwide, including throughout the United States.

Some of the recent risk assessments for the claim that food animal antimicrobial use (AMU) is a problem, highlight current antimicrobial uses in dairy cattle, risks for AMR, and focus on areas for improvement of antimicrobial stewardship in the dairy industry.

Like humans, livestock also face health risks from wildfires. Animals suffering pain, shock, and long-lasting complications from burns or inhaling smoke particles are concerns for livestock owners.

Summer is the time for most of us to engage with hot dogs, ice cream, BBQs, and vacation. Ranchers have some other things to think about this season. From the Beef management calendar, here are some things to consider for summer activities: July Spring calving herd If cattle are on irrigated pasture, consider mid-summer working […]

The current VSV outbreak, its associated Canadian import restrictions, and the importance of this reportable disease.

Although there are often just one or two of these calves born each year in a beef herd, occasionally, the syndrome can be seen in outbreak form and result in the loss of many calves.

The blue stuff or the brown stuff:
Properties of various disinfectants

Preconditioning is a calf management program to prepare weaned calves to enter a stocker operation or be placed directly in a feed yard. Preconditioning activities include: implementation of an animal health protocol for vaccinations and parasite control, dehorning, castration, weaning, and transitioning calves to a roughage andgrain ration fed in feed bunks for a specified […]

Bovine respiratory disease complex (BRD), sometimes called shipping fever and pneumonia, is an economically important disease and a leading cause of death loss in beef cattle in North America. Survey data suggest that respiratory disease accounts for approximately 9 percent of all calf death losses in the United States (NAHMS, 2011). Bovine respiratory disease is […]

Authored by: S. Kerr, T. Hudson, A. Allen and S. Neibergs The goal of low‐stress weaning techniques is to minimize negative stress caused by nutritional, environmental, physical and social changes experienced by calves at weaning time. Stress increases cortisol levels, which reduces immune system performance and can predispose cattle or (calves) to illness from a […]