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cow with ear identification tag
Cow-Calf, Livestock, News Roundup

Tag losses higher on cows

News Roundup from the February 2016 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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It won’t be long before the industry may have some answers to a problem that has long been the ire of beef producers — tag retention for animal identification. The final report on the Canadian Cattle Identification Agency’s (CCIA) national tag retention project will be made public on its website this April along with details […] Read more
Monitoring the suckle reflex in calves
Cow-Calf, Livestock

Monitoring the suckle reflex in calves

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Some recent research has revealed a test that easily predicts which calves should receive supplemental colostrum at only a few minutes old. It was the result of some work by Dr. Elizabeth Homerosky, a veterinarian at the faculty of veterinary medicine at the University of Calgary, as she was comparing various testing procedures to determine […] Read more
Inventor Gerard Roney points to the bars that control how much grain animals can lick up each visit.
Beef Cattle, Cow-Calf

Not your average creep feeder

Supplement rationing with a self-feeder

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The 3IN1Feeder takes self-feeding to a new level with its advanced adjustment system to control the amount of grain consumed during each feeding. Several small feedings during the day helps reduce swings in rumen pH and in turn the animals are able to more efficiently utilize forages. “The big thing is keeping rumen pH in […] Read more
black cow and calf
Cow-Calf, Livestock

Get ready for calving

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Another list you might say. Seems important things tendered as advice always come in a list; some is trivia, some make sense, others simply repeat what’s been said before. The following is a bit of all three, but needs to be offered as a reminder each calving season. Hang this one by the door and […] Read more
Dietary energy levels for backgrounding calves
Cow-Calf, Nutrition

Dietary energy levels for backgrounding calves

Nutrition with John McKinnon, beef cattle nutritionist

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In my last two columns, I have written about issues regarding starting cattle on feed and with the use of grain screening pellets in backgrounding and wintering diets. With this column, I want to focus on developing backgrounding rations for weaned calves, particularly issues with setting up diets from an energy density perspective. Backgrounding is […] Read more
pregnant cow
Cow-Calf, Vet advice

Take ‘preg-checking’ beyond face value

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It’s not just a matter of she is or isn’t pregnant. The ritual of fall pregnancy checking can and should be much more than a simple yes or no. Beef producers, with their veterinarian at the end of the chute, get feedback on potential calving dates, body condition scores, eye lesions, feet and udder problems, […] Read more
Project manager Neils Munk (third from left) 
and farmer Finley Cameron (to Munk’s left) show off the new water system.
Beef Cattle, Cow-Calf, Features

Water conservation efforts in Bruce Peninsula taking shape

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Farmers in the Bruce Peninsula region of Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve are welcoming support from the Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association (BPBA) for projects to improve water quality in freshwater streams and lakes that ultimately flow into Georgian Bay or Lake Huron. The BPBA’s Six Streams Initiative focuses on three sources of pollution: cattle drinking […] Read more
A single squirt to manage pain
Beef Cattle, Cow-Calf, Features

A single squirt to manage pain

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People might take an analgesic or a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, such as aspirin or ibuprofen, to help manage pain, fever or inflammation associated with all sorts of conditions. Now a new Canadian company, Solvet, offers producers the same convenient option for treating cattle. Meloxicam Oral Suspension is Canada’s first long-acting oral pain medication for cattle […] Read more
Bayot and Franziska Britschgi.
Cow-Calf, Features

The prairie calls

And this Swiss couple found a new home

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There’s nothing else Bayot and Franziska Britschgi would rather do than raise cattle and there’s nowhere they’d rather ranch than on the open prairie of southeastern Alberta. They saw more than a few ranches in their younger days travelling from their native Switzerland to work on big ranches from Nevada through the western U.S. and […] Read more

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