Cattle Health
Vaccination stimulates immunity specific to the strains in the vaccine you are using. If the strains of the pathogens challenging your cattle don’t match the strains in the vaccine, you may not get the protection you want.
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Vaccine-adverse reactions: How to minimize the lumps and bumps
Vaccinations are meant to help prevent and treat disease. However, adverse reactions can range in severity from mild temporary lumps and bumps to sudden systemic anaphylactic shock with fluid accumulation in the lungs and death.
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Timing is everything for BRD protection
BRD is the costliest disease in the cattle industry and can have serious impacts on an animal’s production potential. Attacking BRD with a multifaceted approach that includes building immunity, mitigating risk and managing infections is important.
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Essential practices to build BRD resilience in your calf crop
The path to economic success for cow-calf producers often hinges on the ability to develop healthy herds that are resilient to common management and disease challenges.
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Managing heat stress in cattle
As we approach peak summer temperatures, understanding how heat affects your herd can help you find and implement heat mitigation techniques that will be the most practical and profitable to your operation.
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What are you doing to prevent pinkeye?
Pinkeye is not like other diseases. Many factors can contribute to an animal having the disease. However, there are also many ways a producer can work to prevent and treat this disease.
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Implementing an autogenous vaccine for pinkeye: It’s so easy, even an academic vet can do it
Pinkeye development, treatment and prevention, and how to create and implement an autogenous vaccine.
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Bovine congestive heart failure in feedlot cattle
Cattle with the high-risk genotype of BCHF are 28 times more likely to develop the disease than a low-risk genotype. Early results could eliminate 30% of all heart failure. This begins with awareness, use of the tools and information that is available and management.
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza confirmed in U.S. dairy herds
No cases have yet been reported in beef cattle herds, and officials say it poses no threat to human health.
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