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Beef Talk: Cow Down
June 12, 2013
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Cows that are staggering or down are close to being dead cows. A typical beef operation should maintain a less than 1 percent death rate for productive cows. Anything greater should trigger a managerial review to target any potential cause. The other day, after a nice, wet spring, the alarm went off. Two cows were staggering after a day of sorting and working the cow-calf pairs. Cows shouldn’t stagger, so any indication of instability in a nursing cow is an emergency situation. The same as having cardiac pads available in human environments, cattle operations should have quick access to a veterinarian for consultation and care in this situation. The two probable causes that came to mind were ketosis (sometimes confused with milk fever at calving) and hypomagnesaemia tetany (commonly called grass tetany or grass staggers). Although there are other metabolic disturbances in cattle, given the setting and time, these two
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Pinkeye prevention in cattle this summer
BROOKINGS, S.D. - Now is the time to think ahead about preventive measures for pinkeye. Pinkeye is the common name for Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis, a highly infectious disease that affects
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Cows need grass and grass needs cows
What’s up? A typical response to that question in the northern Plains ranching country would be: Busy moving cattle, we will talk later. Cattle turnout to native grass is the
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Vet’s Voice by Dave Barz: Wean early, maximize pasture efficiency
Finally we got some rain. Most of us got enough to get by, but some got enough to end the drought. Many of you have already culled your herds extensively
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Modified-Live IBR vaccines implicated in abortion cases
When cattle producers select a vaccine to protect against infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR), they expect their cows and heifers will produce a healthy calf. Understandably, the health and well-being of
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BeefTalk: Cow Diversity is a Good Thing and so is BIF
Although uniformity is a tremendous asset in marketing, on the production side, uniformity brings challenges. In other words, the ability to produce uniform truckload lots of calves depends on producing
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Healing slow for ranchers affected by grass fire
Welcome moisture has brightened the mood and landscape just a bit for producers dealing with the after-effects of an approximately 11,000 acre grass fire that began as a “prescribed burn”
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Wyoming is keeping an eye on Brucellosis
Often called Bang’s disease, Brucellosis affected as many as 25 percent of cattle in the U.S. before control programs and vaccination. A rigorous program to eliminate this disease in cattle
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Extension column: Getting cows bred with artificial insemination
Fortunately moisture has fallen on most of the high plains area to at least get the cool season grass started. Although certainly a brighter picture than we saw a month
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Beef Talk: May calving brings May flowers
Change is good. Three things have happened at the Dickinson Research Extension Center besides a good rain. The work environment is more relaxed, cows and calves are doing well and
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Superior Livestock under new ownership
National Livestock Credit is pleased to announce the purchase of Superior Livestock Auction, Inc. National Livestock and cattlemen from several states have formed a limited partnership to acquire Superior. According
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