Veterinary - General
From colostrum management to avoiding stacked stress, these priorities can help calves develop the reserves to withstand routine management challenges and disease pressure.
The NASDA Foundation will provide nine veterinary students with paid summer internships in state animal health offices, offering hands-on experience in disease surveillance, emergency response and regulatory programs.
The way veterinarians respond to mistakes, approach challenges and recognize colleagues’ efforts can help build a workplace where learning and professional development thrive.
As temperatures drop, veterinarians can help producers adjust calf nutrition, housing and herd health protocols to reduce cold stress and protect growth.
Chromium supplementation is being explored as a way to support glucose utilization and metabolic health in dairy cows. Understanding the potential benefits, limitations and practical considerations can help producers and veterinarians evaluate its place in a nutrition program.
Early social contact may help calves learn, adapt to stress and develop healthy behaviors. Successful pair housing depends on appropriate facilities, feeding and calf management.
Research findings, farm conditions and outcome measures can help guide probiotic selection and evaluation.
Automated body condition scoring is giving dairy veterinarians more than a number. By tracking changes over time, continuous BCS data can provide a new way to evaluate individual cows and herd-level patterns.
The beef industry has spent years studying what can go wrong. A new evidence map shows what we’ve learned and where the next questions may need to come from.
One Iowa herd investigation into Theileria orientalis started with dead heifers and thousands of ticks. What was found next offered a broader lesson about surveillance, diagnostics and managing a disease that may already be moving through the region.
Milk prices, salvage values and replacement costs can change when a cow should leave the herd.
Two distinct variants and evidence of fetal infection are adding new questions to an outbreak first identified in European cattle this summer.
Dr. Eric Rooker challenges veterinarians to look beyond compensation and work-life balance and consider what makes a career fulfilling in the first place.
A conversation with a client during a routine goat castration helped reveal a passion for teaching that would eventually lead Dr. Jody Kull from private practice to Penn State.
New resistance-to-diarrhea and resistance-to-respiratory-disease PTAs give producers another tool for long-term calf health selection.
New thinking on forage particle size suggests the goal isn’t simply getting cows to chew more. It’s helping them spend more time where rumen health may benefit most: lying down.
From fetal programming to fitness checks, every step before loading helps determine how calves perform after they leave the dairy.
Comparing workforce assessments from Oklahoma, Kansas, Indiana, Maryland and Ohio uncovers common challenges — and a surprising shift in how the profession should approach solutions.
As beef-on-dairy economics and transition health reshape dairy management, Dr. Stephen LeBlanc says we should focus on preventing involuntary culling and optimizing productive lifespan rather than simply keeping cows in the herd longer.
When evidence falls short, veterinarians and producers rely on experience, collaboration and careful judgment to manage the complex realities of tick-borne disease.
A career spanning practice, research and industry taught Linda Rhodes that success isn’t measured by titles, but by purpose, curiosity and balance.
The biggest challenge facing the rural veterinary workforce shortage may not be getting students into veterinary school, but helping them reach the applicant stage.
Adult flies are only part of the problem. Knowing where they breed, rest and multiply can help you develop more effective control strategies.
Prompt action can help preserve joint function, while delayed treatment may lead to chronic lameness and reduced longevity.
Heat stress affects the cellular and immune systems that protect dairy cows from disease, creating impacts that extend far beyond production losses.
As Texas confronts the threat of New World screwworm, a veterinary emergency response team built for disasters is helping support the state’s efforts.
Two cattle veterinarians reflect on the mentors, mistakes and experiences that shaped their careers long after veterinary school.