Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (“pinkeye”) has been a problem for cattle producers for more than 100 years. It is a highly contagious ocular disease that results in serious monetary losses for cattle producers.

The goal of any bovine respiratory disease (BRD) treatment plan is to reduce the number of cattle that go off feed and spend time in hospital pens.

As a seedstock producer and a cattle veterinarian, having a healthy and productive herd is a top priority for my herd and my clients’ herds. However, one of the most concerning diseases I am diagnosing more and more frequently in beef cattle is Johne’s disease.

As the fall season approaches, the daylight hours get shorter, the nights are cooler and, depending on the management system, cattlemen are gearing up for fall breeding or calving. Vaccination for respiratory and reproductive disease can help enhance breeding success and weaning of calves.

Johne's disease (pronounced yo-KNEES) is a condition of cattle and all other ruminants (both domestic and wild) that causes chronic diarrhea, weight loss, infertility, and eventual death in animals that are infected years earlier.

A good deal of confusing information has surfaced concerning the causative agent in bovine pinkeye over the past few years. Quality veterinary medical diagnostic laboratories around the country have reported the isolation of Branhamella ovis or Moraxella ovis from clinical cases of pinkeye patients.