While we usually think of a cow’s gut simply as the organ system responsible for digestion and absorption of nutrients, it also plays other critical roles.
Salmonella Heidelberg is a multi-drug-resistant Salmonella species that can cause severe illness in calves and humans, and is transmittable between the two.
The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has proposed using polled genetics as an alternative to dehorning. However, there are few polled dairy sires with high genetic merit for important economic indexes.
