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Dealing With Dystocia

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Calving problems, especially with first-calf heifers, can usually be minimized by selecting bulls that sire lowbirthweight calves. Even with the best planning, however, some calves need assistance at birth. Dr. Matt Miesner, assistant professor, clinical agricultural practices at Kansas State University veterinary teaching hospital, tells producers they should have three goals. “First is a live, […] Read more
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Mastitis — To Treat Or Not To Treat?

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When it comes to deciding whether or not to treat mastitis in a beef cow, safety may just trump both economics and cow comfort. Convincing a cranky cow that you’re there to help her can be risky and might be more trouble than it’s worth. That advice applies only if you’re seeing a straightforward case […] Read more
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Mastitis: The Research

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Milking one beef cow can be a trying chore, let alone milking 106 of them— twice! That’s what researchers at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine (WCVM) in Saskatoon were up against during a study to gauge the prevalence of mastitis in a beef cow herd in Western Canada and determine the effect of a […] Read more
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Calving With A New Addition To The Family

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One of his earliest experiences with calving was watching his mom and dad working to save a calf that was being delivered backwards on their farm close to Manitou, Man. “It didn’t bother him at all. He just sat there and he knew Mom and Dad were OK and that was fine,” says John’s mom, […] Read more
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Avoid Navel Infections

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Much has been written about omphalophlebitis (navel ill) in calves. The bovine species appears to be fairly susceptible to developing these infections. The wet, damp environment calves are sometimes born into, often in close confinement, increases the incidence. Fighting against this trend is the growing tendency of producers to calve later in the year on […] Read more
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A Tale Of Two Calving Systems On The Canadian Prairies

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Researchers at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s research centres in Brandon, Swift Current and the Western Beef Development Centre in Lanigan, Sask. conducted a two-year study to evaluate the effects of early (March-April ) or late (May-June) calving under traditional and non-traditional conditions. In all, 120 cows at Brandon, 60 at Swift Current and 100 at […] Read more
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Rolling The Dice On Early Or Late Calving

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The number of variables affecting profit on cattle ranches is staggering and most are circumstances we can do nothing about. We can’t control weather, insects, exchange rates, market prices, foreign trade, commercial inputs, government regulations, grain prices, new machinery costs, fluctuating cycles or unmotivated politicians. About the only issue in which cattlemen can exercise control […] Read more
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Early Or Late Calving…

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University of Manitoba agribusiness and agricultural economics masters student Tanis Sirski is currently wrapping up the economic risk and return analysis of the birth-to-weaning phase of the time-of-calving study reported in our story “A Tale of Two Calving Systems on the Canadian Prairies” on page 10. She reported her findings at the recent Manitoba Grazing […] Read more
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Quality Starts Here – for Jan. 24, 2011

CALVING TO WEANING The cow-calf Good Production Practices manual offers four checklists of recommended steps at calving, breeding, spring roundup and weaning. Calving Standard calving protocols are developed and used by staff, who are trained in appropriate calving techniques to reduce calving injuries (e.g. non-ambulatory animals) as well as cow and calf mortality. Make sure […] Read more
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Weighing A Change Of Calving Season

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There are many factors involved when making decisions about when to calve. Whether you calve in January-February (early calving), March-April (spring), May- June or June-July (summer) or September- October (fall) often hinges on region and climate, marketing goals, feed costs and availability, breeding season considerations, constraints of management, and other factors that enter into this […] Read more

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