Effective scours treatment depends on correcting dehydration and acidosis early. Here, Dr. Geoffrey Smith reviews ...

Like anything else, prevention is preferable to treatment when dealing with scours among calves. Doctor of veterinary medicine and University of Minnesota Extension educator Joe Armstrong has some ...

Troy Dutton and Joe Hochhalter from the Steele Vet Clinic in Steele, N.D., give advice on everything from colostrum timing to ...

The sight of bloody calf scours is a disturbing one, but the condition is not always fatal. University of Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory director Keith Poulsen says pinpointing the cause ...

Kansas State University veterinarian Gregg Hanzlicek said being prepared ahead of calving season is the best way for producers to ensure they will bring home the newborn calves successfully. “We’re ...

Dear doctor, thanks for the informative articles in Smart Harvest. I started dairy farming four years ago but on a wrong footing when my two in-calf delivered two days apart and I lost the two calves ...

Ensuring suckler cows have at least 14% crude protein in their diet before calving will help antibody production and improve ...

- It reduces milk production, it jeopardizes cows' immune response, cows become poor doers, culling rates and death rates increase, and it reduces the market value of cattle. - Some recent research ...

IN a recent report 1 it was shown that a scouring disease which affected cattle and sheep on reclaimed swamps and peaty soils in New Zealand was due to a deficiency of copper in the pasture. Affected ...