Protect the long-term health and profitability of your dairy by providing calves with the care they need to start life right. The Calf Immunology Resource Center offers a number of resources to help you learn more about the calf’s unique immune system and techniques for managing the health of the calf from conception to weaning, including content that focuses on calf immunology, dairy calf nutrition, scours prevention, therapeutic treatment and much more. The Calf Immunology Resource Center is brought to you by Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, a leader in research that offers a line of high-quality animal health products, uniquely suited to promoting dairy cow and calf health and productivity with a full line of products to prevent disease, treat infection, manage reproduction and control parasites.
Latest Postings:
Maternal cells in colostrum (Immunology Primer)
New immunology research is showing the effects of maternal cells in colostrum when given to newborn calves.
Scours caused by variety of pathogens (Scours Prevention)
One of the reasons why calf scours is such a challenging disease for producers is that it can be caused by a combination of two or more pathogens.
Add colostrum to milk for gut protection (Colostrum)
Colostrum at birth is essential for passive transfer of immunity to calves, but colostrum may also be beneficial in helping older calves fight of intestinal disease.
Calf respiratory disease scoring chart (Respiratory Health)
The University of Wisconsin Calf Respiratory Disease Scoring Chart includes scoring factors such as age, nasal discharge, eye or ear, cough (spontaneous or induced) and temperature. Full story.
We’re not out of the woods yet (Immunology Primer)
Failure of passive transfer has decreased, but it still lurks at 19.2 percent.
Respiratory disease diagnosis (Respiratory Health)
A pharyngeal swab is a new tool that can help diagnose bovine respiratory disease.
Feed heat-treated colostrum (Colostrum)
Recent work at Penn State indicates that feeding heat-treated colostrum improves immunoglobulin absorption.
Evaluate dehydration (Scours Prevention)
Calves can lose 5 to 10 percent of their body weight from scouring in one day. Use these tips to evaluate dehydration.
Target treatment of calf scours (Scours Prevention)
New research from Washington State University indicates that targeted treatment of scours had better results and a cost savings of $10 per calf in the first month of life.
Nutrition impacts disease resistance (Nutrition)
Research presented at the American Association of Bovine Practitioners annual meeting shows that feeding calves at a higher plane of nutrition can significantly reduce the effects of disease.
