10/28/2009 11:27AM
University of Wisconsin Extension agents offer these thoughts on opportunities for marketing this year’s calves at heavier weights.
10/21/2009 02:08PM
The objective for diagnosing any disease is improvement in the overall health of a herd or feeding operation.
10/05/2009 01:19PM
Any stocker operator can attest that management is everything during
the first couple of weeks upon receiving cattle. These calves have just
undergone the most stressful activity in their life – weaning. Not only
have these calves experienced weaning but also transport, marketing,
co-mingling and finally being placed in a distinctly different
environment.
09/09/2009 01:12PM
Joe Roder, DVM, PhD, DABVT, Manager of Livestock Technical Services for Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, will discuss the interaction between infection and inflammation in Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD), and the importance of treating the disease with more than a fast-acting antibiotic for best results.
09/03/2009 10:26AM
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) involves complex interactions amongst
viral and bacterial pathogens that can lead to intense pulmonary
inflammation (fibrinous pleuropneumoniae).
08/24/2009 02:15PM
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) research has provided significant
knowledge and understanding of the disease since a 1983 symposium on
the subject, according to Robert W. Fulton, DVM, PhD, Oklahoma State
University.
08/21/2009 01:24PM
As interest grows in certified-organic or natural production, Hubert J.
Karreman, VMD, Narvon, Penn., outlined ways veterinarians can help
their clients protect animal health while complying with program
specifications.
08/18/2009 02:36PM
Bernard E. Rollin, PhD, poses this question: “To whom does the
veterinarian owe primary allegiance, animal or owner?” Rollin says most
lean towards the “pediatrician model”, believing their role is to
improve the health and welfare of animals similar to a pediatrician and
a child. The public, he adds, also favor this concept.
08/17/2009 02:38PM
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.