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The Scoop, April 2010

Calf Milk Replacer Bulleti n: FDA Change of Status of Neo-Terramycin (NT)

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Q: What is happening with milk replacer and Neo-terramycin at the 2:1 ratio? Read More>>

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Feeding Refrigerated Colostrum (Calving Ease July 2010)

Let's review the basics. Feed newborn calves colostrum as soon as possible after birth. Feed the highest quality colostrum to heifer calves. Get at least four quarts of colostrum

into the calf within the first six hours. Now, if we do not have fresh colostrum Read More>>

Solving Water Feeding Issues (Calving Ease June 2010)

Summary:

1. The best way to avoid calves gorging on water when first offered free choice is to provide access from day two. 2. Rather than depending on withholding water to get firmer manure from young calves, find out what is causing loose manure and fix the problem. Read More>>

Improving Our Handling of Colostrum (Calving Ease May 2010)
Summary: The procedures you use to harvest and handle colostrum may determine your rate of treatable scours in young calves. Bacterial contamination of colostrum is common on U.S. and Canadian dairy farms. Controlling this contamination may significantly reduce scours issues among your calves. Read More>>

Weaning Calves (Calving Ease April 2010)

There are as many opinions about the best way to wean calves as there are persons caring for calves. However, we do have some research information and field observations that

may be helpful in sorting out personal preferences from practices that actually improve calf care. Read More>>

Drying Off a Calf (Calving Ease March 2010)
Please don’t think that I have gone off the deep end in choosing this topic. In some circumstances this is a legitimate job. Normally, we think of the dam licking off the calf.

Then the calf “air dries.” That is, the environment is warm enough so that we can depend on evaporation to take care of what the dam did not remove. But, what about in weather where the environment will not supply warm enough air to do the job? Then the calf’s energy reserves are used to supply the heat. What about the times when we are trying to control dam-to-daughter transmission of disease. Johne’s disease is a good example. Doing the “drying” job is up to the care givers. Read More>>

Doing the Job the Way it should be done (Calving Ease February 2010)

Calf rearing involves many processes. Caring for newborn calves, managing colostrum, feeding, dehorning preweaned calves are all examples. Each process could have a protocol

– a written description of the process. Each protocol consists of steps in the order in which they should be done. And, each step describes an action. A clear description including

criteria that define the action in measurable terms. Read More>>

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