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It pays to have a good working relationship with a veterinarian to assist in herd health management strategy and preventative medicine, rather than just relying on a veterinarian for emergencies.
One of the necessary elements of beef cattle production is vaccination against common diseases. In order to be effective, vaccines must be cared for appropriately.
Often, it is the way rations are fed rather than their composition that leads to digestive upset in horses. Even under the best of management, several anatomical peculiarities of the horse’s digestive tract predispose horses to digestive disorders such as colic and founder.
Intervet Schering-Plough Animal Health reintroduced the Vista® vaccine line in January, to provide beef cattle veterinarians and producers with complete protection against the most common and costly bovine respiratory and reproductive diseases.
Vista vaccines protect beef cattle against Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR), Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD Type 1 and Type 2), Parainfluenza3 (PI3), Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV), leptospirosis, vibriosis, Mannheimia haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida.
Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica, Inc. introduces a vaccine that steps beyond conventional reproductive protection.
Express® FP 5-VL5 currently provides one of the most complete modified-live virus/bacterin vaccine combinations on the market, and now it offers protection against Leptospira hardjo-bovis.
Norbrook Laboratories, Ltd. announces the introduction of Hexasol Injection, the only medication on the U.S. market that combines the long-acting antibiotic oxytetracycline (active ingredient in Noromycin™ 300 LA & 300 PRO LA™) and the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) flunixin meglumine in one convenient dose.
Available for the first time in North America, Scintiprox, Inc.
introduces the Paslode 315 wire fence stapling system, designed specifically with the professional fencer, farmer and rancher in mind.
The new Paslode 315 stapling system, developed by Paslode New Zealand, will save time and money.
Animal Innovations has developed a platform technology that transforms a conventional syringe into an intelligent injection system called Automated Injection Technology (AIT).
In current daily practice, cattle medication dosage is calculated using either the average or estimated weight of an animal.
A fast, accurate and reliable automatic syringe-filling system is desired by the industry, and the AIT system satisfies this demand.
Like most people involved in selling livestock, I believe that the faster you sell them, the better it is. When it comes to auctions, the speechifying should be kept to a bare minimum.
For one thing, there’s usually nothing anyone can say that the ranchers on the seats don’t already know.
Cattlemen these days are very astute; they’ve had to be to have survived this long, and they’ve studied all the numbers, EPDs and statistics to know which stock they want and how bad they want them.
There are a lot of different opinions regarding which antibiotics are best for treating common infections – for example, pneumonia and foot rot.
How can a cow-calf producer make the best decision about which product to use and when?
