Bovine Veterinarian
Knock out respiratory disease in beef calves
(9/1/2010)
Summer pneumonia is a common occurrence in beef calves, but management strategies can help prevent it.
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Protect dairy calves from BRD
(9/1/2010)
Understanding how the neonate’s immune system works can help us with strategies for BRD.
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Categorizing BRD Cases
(9/1/2010)
Categorizing sick feedlot cattle can lead to more refined treatment protocols.
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Managing BRD in stockers
(9/1/2010)
High-risk stockers are susceptible to BRD; manage-ment can lessen the risk.
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Editorial: BRD research heats up
(9/1/2010)
BRD has been around probably as long as cattle have, but it’s still a slippery devil to get our hands around whether we’re talking cows, calves, feedlot steers, beef or dairy.
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Practice Tip: Calf ranches and respiratory disease
(9/1/2010)
Calf ranches typically raise day-old Holstein calves up to several hundred pounds in preparation for entry into the feedlot.
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Practice Tip: Send in a 'good history'
(9/1/2010)
When sending in samples, many diagnostic laboratories ask veterinarians to send in a “good history.”
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Practice Tip: Hospital diets
(9/1/2010)
Jeremy Martin, PhD, Great Plains Livestock Consulting Inc., Eagle, Neb., offers these suggestions for hospital diets for cattle sick with BRD.
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Case Study: Genetics, environment and BRD
(9/1/2010)
Gary Snowder, PhD, associate director of the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense, housed at Texas A&M University, outlines how environmental, stress and immunological factors have synergistic effects on BRD occurrence.
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Case Study: Viral infections in stocker calves
(9/1/2010)
Calves purchased from auction markets from several states were delivered to the Oklahoma State University Sparks facility and held for approximately 60 days.
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Prepare for winter cattle issues
(7/1/2010)
What have we learned from last year’s severe winter weather that impacted the health and productivity of beef cattle?
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The immune system and mastitis
(7/1/2010)
The effects of mastitis on the immune system are complex.
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The heat is on
(7/1/2010)
Feedlot heat stress can be mild or devastating to all classes of cattle; have a plan in place to prevent or mitigate its effects.
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Where we’re at with PI BVDV
(7/1/2010)
The most recent NAHMS study, Beef 2007–08, gives us a snapshot of where the industry is with BVDV persistent infection in beef cattle.
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Editorial: Three losses to the industry
(7/1/2010)
Industry mourns the losses of Roy Milleret, Bill Kautz and Stan Curtis.
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Practice Tip: Prevent needle stick risks
(7/1/2010)
Needle-stick injuries are more commonly reported as livestock production becomes more concentrated and industrialized.
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Case Study: PI exposure can impair performance
(7/1/2010)
Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) can leave animals with symptoms that can reduce production efficiency.
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Case Study: Mitigating mastitis pain
(7/1/2010)
At the 49th NMC Annual Meeting, Ken Leslie, DVM, MSc, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, discussed pain management and mastitis.
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Making beef cattle welfare work
(5/1/2010)
The beef industry works hard at cattle welfare, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t improve.
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Feed young bulls for success
(5/1/2010)
Good nutrition from birth to breeding can make a difference in growth and develop of young beef bulls.
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Fighting the effects of dystocia
(5/1/2010)
Calves experiencing a difficult birth have the odds against them; supporting the dystocia calf is critical for survival.
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Editorial: 10 ways to lose the animal welfare argument
(5/1/2010)
My cover story for this issue of Bovine Veterinarian is about cattle welfare: How far we’ve come, what are current challenges is and where we’re headed.
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Practice Tips: Implement welfare in the real world
(5/1/2010)
A first place to start with your clients on improving cattle welfare is working with compromised (disabled, sick, lame, high-risk) cattle. A great resource is the fairly new Caring for Compromised Cattle manual and poster.
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Case Study: Measuring pain in cattle
(5/1/2010)
Administration of local anesthesia prior to castration and dehorning is legislated in several European countries, however, there are currently no analgesic drugs specifically approved for pain relief in livestock by the U.S Food and Drug Administration.
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Wildcat Power Cord gives cattle a 'leg up'
(3/1/2010)
Valuable cows and bulls with cruciate ligament injuries can have a second chance with this surgery technique.
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