Preventing disease is kind of like balancing a seesaw. On one side is limiting an animal’s exposure to factors that might cause it illness, whether that is sick herdmates or environmental shortfalls,Hoard's Dairyman Intel - Thursday
Council Grove, Kans. (August 25, 2022) – The inaugural class participating in the National Institute for Animal Agriculture’s (NIAA) Advanced Training for Animal Agriculture Leaders finished their third in-person leadership training session in Sacramento, California.
Administering a vaccine to an animal is one thing, but the animal developing immunity is another. Multiple factors come into play to affect a vaccine and its action in the animal’s body that determine how well it will control disease.
Quality, quantity, quickness, squeaky clean, and quantify: these “five Qs” developed by Sandra Godden at the University of Minnesota serve as guidelines for effectively effectively supplying colostrum
Those who work closely with the calves on a dairy farm must always be on the lookout for signs of illness. Identifying calves that are dealing with the most common issues — scours and pneumonia —,Hoard's Dairyman Intel