The Montgomery County Sheriff’s office is investigating a cattle theft after 34 steer calves were taken from a pen inside an Iowa sale barn. According to KCCI Des Moines, Don Wolfe, who co-owns the Omaha/Red Oak Livestock Market with his son said the calves were taken from his property between 2:30 a.m. and 8 a.m. […]

It wasn’t a lightning strike or anthrax outbreak that wiped out five calves on the Kowalski Ranch near South Shore, South Dakota. It was bullets. Kristin Kowalski turned to Facebook over the weekend looking for answers: We have had 5 calves shot. We had the vet come out and confirm today. Each calf had multiple […]

Clinical signs such as gastrointestinal problems or septic arthritis may be better predictors of neonatal calf mortality than lab findings.

Supplementing calves with creep feed is important to their growth, as it provides a source of energy that most calves won’t get while transitioning from nursing to grazing forages. And since there are so many feed options available, one expert suggests that producers really take time to study the labels to select the best option […]

Did you know there’s a specific window of time when a dam can become infected with bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) and can produce a persistently infected (PI) calf? And if the unborn fetus is exposed to the BVDV during the first 120 days of gestation … a calf may be born persistently infected with BVDV. […]

Would you recognize bovine respiratory disease (BRD) symptoms in your calves? Calves impacted by pneumonia during the first 90 days of life are more likely to experience increased age at first calving, higher incidence of dystocia, and greater mortality before first calving. “Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is far too common on dairies,” said Greg Edwards, […]

Calves this winter can now get an extra dose of protection. Merck Animal Health recently announced the launch of BOVILIS CORONAVIRUS, the first USDA-approved modified-live intranasal vaccine to aid in reduction of enteric disease caused by Bovine Coronavirus (BCV). Most severe during winter months, BCV is often prevalent in dairy calves and cow/calf beef herds, […]