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A bull elk near Prince Albert, Sask. Wildlife such as deer and elk can spread bovine TB between farms, making it difficult to trace.
Animal Health, Beef Cattle, Livestock

What ranchers need to know about bovine tuberculosis investigations in Canada

From surveillance to testing to restocking, two experts outline how an investigation works

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From surveillance to testing to restocking, two experts outline how an investigation works

A case of bovine tuberculosis was detected in a cow at slaughter in Alberta. It was traced back to a farm in Saskatchewan, where more positive animals were detected, leading to the launch of a vigorous eradication and investigation process by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. But many producers don’t know what this process looks […] Read more
A cow disposes of the afterbirth as two young calves lay nearby. Newborn calves are vulnerable to disease, so farmers and ranchers should strive to reduce disease risk during calving season.
Animal Health, Calving, Cow-Calf, Livestock

Reducing disease risk from calving season onwards

Whether it’s scours or Johne’s disease, farmers and ranchers can reduce the chance of transmitting it

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With winter calving almost at a close, grassland producers are preparing for their own spring calving season. Chad Ross calves his herd of 800 to 1,100 cows as close to nature as he can. The owner and operator of L-7 Land and Cattle at Estevan, Sask., switched to grassland calving in the mid-2000s. Unless a […] Read more
Barbed wire with cattle in silhouette against sunset
Beef Cattle, Livestock, Vet advice, Vet Advice

How barbed wire transformed ranching in the West

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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Ranching in southern Alberta can be divided into two eras. One before the fence, and the one that came to stay, after the fences. From D. Larraine Andrews’s book, Ranching Under the Arch:“Responding to the new lease legislation, four corporate ranches, dubbed the Patriarchs, arrive under open range practices dependent on chinooks to keep grasslands […] Read more
A Welsh pony trotting in a field. For some reason, more ponies were infected with Western equine encephalitis in Dr. Clarke’s experience, but all horses, and humans, are susceptible.
Animal Health, Features

Sleeping sickness in horses

Veterinary Case Study: Symptoms of Western equine encephalitis and tips for preventing the disease

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Jane’s desperate phone call came after school Monday afternoon. She had noticed something different with Sisco last night when she groomed him. Sisco, a Welsh-cross, failed to eat his oats, seemed restless and wanted to lay down. Getting up when urged became difficult. Her hunch something might be seriously wrong with her new pony turned […] Read more
Biological clocks play an important role in animal behaviour.
Beef Cattle, Livestock, Vet Advice

Evolution and circadian rhythms of cattle

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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DNA analysis has shown that domestic cattle descended from wild ox in southwestern Asia some 10,500 years ago. An international team of scientists from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and National Museum of Natural History in France, the University of Mainz in Germany, and University College London in the U.K. conducted the study by […] Read more
calf in a barn stall
Animal Health, Bovine Respiratory Disease, Cow-Calf, Livestock

Stress, biosecurity and bovine respiratory disease

Bovine respiratory disease isn’t going away, but there are things ranchers and farmers can do to reduce disease prevalence

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Shipping fever. Bovine respiratory disease (BRD). Whatever name you give it, it remains the number one cause of death in feedlots. It pops up on cow-calf operations, too. The Beef Cattle Research Council’s website notes that BRD is a leading cause of death, illness and antibiotic treatment in calves from three weeks of age to […] Read more
The great majority of Lyme disease cases are due to the bite of a very tiny tick called the deer tick, or black-legged tick.
Animal Health

Lyme disease: maligned and misunderstood

Vet Advice with Dr. Ron Clarke

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There is nothing good about Lyme disease, but it’s time to sit and make sense of what Lyme disease is and what can be done about it. Lyme disease is spreading in Canada. The disease itself is caused by a bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) spread from ticks seeking a blood meal. It’s not a serious cattle disease, […] Read more
When working cattle, look for the animal with its head up, and change angles every time it raises its head, says Sinclair.
Animal Health, Beef Cattle, Cow-Calf, Livestock

The link between stockmanship and animal health

Lee Sinclair has dedicated much of his professional life to teaching producers about low-stress cattle handling

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When Lee Sinclair would come home from college and university in the summers, he worked at feedlots, which is where his interest in low-stress cattle handling started. “Nobody had ever told me position, distance and angles make the difference. All we were taught is, we’ve got to get this done,” Sinclair said. “So you use […] Read more

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