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3 standard calf care practices your calf grower wishes you knew and implemented

Adequate colostrum; a dry, clean environment; and effective navel care are essential to setting dairy-beef calves up for success. Supplying healthy calves can help farms stay competitive in today’s market.

October 22, 2022

Samantha Kulp

Adequate colostrum; a dry, clean environment; and effective navel care are essential to setting dairy-beef calves up for success. Supplying healthy calves can help farms stay competitive in today’s market.

'Rookies' are your future: 3 tips for assessing their first year

Daily weight gain along with a healthy immune system can go a long way to meeting first-lactation goals and maximizing profitability.

June 6, 2022

Raffael Lichdi

Every team has its own philosophy on developing young talent. The goal for most coaches is to turn all first-year players, the rookies, into dependable assets that can have a big impact on the game while setting the team up for long-term success.

8 ways to prepare and support young calves for transportation

Transportation can be a stressful event for calves. Without proper management before, during and after the event, diseases and other issues that arise from this can have lifelong consequences.

May 31, 2022

Olivia Genther-Schroeder and Jill Soderstrom

Rearing dairy calves has evolved over the last decade. Traditionally, calves were born, raised and lived on one farm for their entire life.

Strict protocols to prevent calfhood diseases: Case study

May 18, 2022

Brian E. Miller

The practice of raising young stock off-site has grown among large dairies over the years. In 2014, 62.8% of large operations sent replacement heifers to an off-site raising facility as pre-weaned calves, according to a USDA report.

Three key management phases to prevent respiratory disease

March 24, 2022

Matt Dodd

It’s good to have goals. It gives you something to shoot for whether it’s in your personal life or as a dairy producer. On your dairy, there are a wide variety of goals you can strive to accomplish. Some may relate to basic protocols while others may center on performance.

Transition milk has a lot of immunoglobulins

December 22, 2021

Vimal Selvaraj, Kasey Schalich, and Robert Lynch

Antibodies in the dam’s colostrum, specifically immunoglobulins G and A, are the reason why newborn calves are able to immediately combat bacterial and viral pathogens in the environment.

‘Y’ the best vaccine for scours may not be a vaccine

October 21, 2021

Bobbi Kunde Brockmann

If you could have any superpower, what would you choose? For newborn calves, their answer would most likely be immediate immunity.

Unintended consequences of early antibiotic introduction

July 30, 2021

Kavishti Kokaram

As more research is being done on calf health, it is being discovered that common calf management practices that introduce antibiotics during critical development periods might be doing more harm than good.

Improving calf performance: Attitude is everything

June 7, 2021

Drew A. Vermeire

Would it surprise you that a critical difference between success and failure in raising calves is the attitude of the people taking care of the calves? How we view the calves and how we view our time are critical to success of the calf operation because they impact calf performance.