Features

The best form of treatment for a beef herd is preventative medicine and that really is what herd health visits are all about. I will go over the basic things covered by most veterinarians and indicate how these fit into most schemes followed by cow-calf managers. The time frame revolves around a typical Alberta spring-calving […] Read more

With the advent of the reliable pour-on and injectable endectocides found on the market today scratching from lice or mange is a very rare occurrence in cattle herds except when a fall treatment is neglected. As a veterinarian, I am sometimes called on to investigate apparent breaks in the efficacy of these products. In doing […] Read more

The double standard established by the federal government over the issue of own-use import rules has created many inequalities and hard feelings in the cattle industry. Under the rule veterinarians, animal health suppliers and distributors in Canada cannot bring in cheaper pharmaceuticals from south of the border yet producers can bring them in for their […] Read more

Very often in our practice we get called out, or a cow is brought in, with an unrelenting lameness that the producer has treated two or three times for footrot to no avail. The cow is often bearing almost no weight on its leg. This could be septic arthritis, and this article will describe the […] Read more