Health Column
Should she stay or should she go?
As we take the time to discuss culling strategies on many dairies, it becomes evident that there are many opportunities to optimize profitability with more systematic, data-driven decisions.
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Five good reasons to ...
It is a contagious, costly disease of animals that also affects humans. It is spread by direct contact with infected animals or with an environment that has been contaminated with discharges from infected animals.
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Pneumonia in dairy calves
Pneumonia is one of the most common diseases we see in dairy calves from birth to weaning.
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Quality control: The little things
Most progressive dairies have the big things covered. As we strive to manage the dairy operation in a systematic way, it is often the little but important things that get overlooked.
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Anaphylactic reactions are a true emergency
Chances are, if you have given enough injections over time, you have run across an anaphylactic reaction.
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Colostrum management
Newborn calves require special attention immediately after birth to decrease the risk of disease and death during the pre-weaning period.
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Don’t forget about BVD
Scours, pneumonia, then a bout of coccidiosis at weaning; she is just a “poor doer” is often what I hear.
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An interview with Bovicoli bovis
Howdy from a deep, dark crevice of cow 4211! The smell of fall is the in air. What a relief after that long, hot summer. I cannot tell you how many relatives I lost, mostly because I cannot count, but that is beside the point.
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Cut down on ketosis
Ketosis is one of the most common metabolic diseases on dairy farms. It occurs when cows have an abnormal response to negative energy balance.
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Don’t overlook zoonotic diseases
Sometimes we need to remind our physicians that we work with livestock since zoonotic diseases can sometimes be overlooked.
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Toxicology 101
This year may very well be remembered as the “Year of the Extremes,” at least weather-wise. While we in parts of the South and Southwest are burning up with record heat and drought, other areas of the country are wringing wet. Neither of these conditions is ideal for cows and forages.
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