Explore all the information on
Calf health
Welcome to the page about Calf health of Engormix; a source of knowledge on Calf health.
Thomas Wittek (University of Vienna) appeared at the ANEMBE International Congress 2016 in Spain and talked to us in detail about the diagnosis of the diseases of the abomasum, being displacement the most common. Here in this video, Wittek gives his insight on the matter....
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Robert E. James is the dairy extension project leader of the Department of Dairy Science at Virginia Tech, and he participated in the FEPALE Congress 2016 in Puerto Varas, Chile. In his conference, James explained new concepts in the rearing of calves with emphasis on their first two months of their lives and how to measure success in this process....
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Dairy producers along with their herd nutritionists and veterinarians are keenly aware that there is a cost to a cow’s performance when she is under stress. The dairy cow is especially at risk for health problems around calving. During this time she is susceptible to physiological, metabolic, and infectious diseases. Changes to the cow’s immune system, with an accompanying inflammatory response, often are associated with health disorders. ...
Comments : 3
Recommendations: 0
Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk speaks about the Animal Welfare Program in the University of British Columbia which focuses in dairy cattle welfare. ...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Selsaf®, a natural source of selenium with dual protection and dual benefits
Suggested link
I fed grain containing 1.0 ppm Vomotoxin to Jersey calves from 1 week old on up to about a month old. What symptoms could have occurred? I had two that had seizures with one dieing.
What is the safe limit of vomotoxin if being fed to less then two month old Jersey calves?...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
During the first two weeks after birth, a calf’s health and future productivity is at high risk. Investing time and money to reduce the incidence of disease and improve survival at this time generates good payback. Feeding to support the calf’s immune system, combined with good husbandry and environment, helps to optimize overall health, growth, and productivity. The newborn calf possesses a functional immune system,...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Volker Moennig speaks about the Bovine Virus Diarrea and that the main issue is the control of this virus because its the most devastating virus of cattle. He also speaks about the importance of vaccination in conjuction with PR removal to fight againt the BVD....
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
INTRODUCTION The management practices of animals and geo-climatic condition of Bangladeshare favorable for the occurrence of various diseases and disorders. The incidence of diseases varies with the species, ages, sex of the animals and season of the year (Hoaque and Samad, 1996; Saiffuzzaman, 1996; Samad, 2001). Most of the diseases are treated with medicine only; while few cases need surgical intervention in...
Comments : 2
Recommendations: 0
Valentin Nenov, Global Ruminant Manager at Phileo Lesaffre, summarizes his presentation at EuroTier about the Program Neonates whose objective is to maximize growth and health in newborn calves. ...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
James Husband, Technical Director of UK-based Evidence Based Veterinary Consultancy, speaks about technical and economical management of the dairy calf from birth to calving at a conference held by Lesaffre Feed Additives at EuroTier 2014 for its launch of Program Neonate, a calf nutrition program. ...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Introduction Pakistan has an agrarian rural-based economy like many developing countries with livestock a major contributor to the national (11.9%) and agricultural (55.4%) economy (Pakistan Economic Survey 2012). Dairy is a major component of the livestock sector in both numbers of cattle and buffalo (38 and 33 million respectively) and income generation (Habib et al 2007). Milk is produced under different production...
Comments : 4
Recommendations: 0
Most dairy farmers have long recognized that feeding raw milk to calves is not exempt of health risks. Of the U.S. dairy farms only 25.6% feed raw milk to their calves (APHIS 2007). Dairies with more than 500 cows are rapidly adopting pasteurization with 30.7% of them already doing it. The reason has been the understanding of the role pasteurization played in history as a process to increase milk safety both in cattle and humans.
...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Selsaf®, a natural source of selenium with dual protection and dual benefits
Suggested link
James Drackley, Professor at the University of Illinois, was invited by Nutrefeed to give a talk about early calf nutrition and health....
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 1
Professor James Drackley speaks about scours in calves, ways to diagnose and treat this common disease. ...
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 0
Even before the big "snow event" of last week, I was getting calls from herds in the middle of calf scours wrecks. Now, there really haven't been that many - it's been about an average year so far, but I expect that will be changing as our snow melts. The resulting muddy sloppy conditions usually mean a great environment for the germs that afflict baby calves in their first few weeks of life.
Many of these herds are well into...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
Pneumonia in beef calves following the stress of weaning or shipping has been very well-documented. However, not as much is known about the risk factors that contribute to pneumonia in calves on pasture prior to weaning.
Pneumonia in young beef calves on pasture can manifest itself in several different ways. The clinical picture may include obvious signs such as increased respiratory rate or cough, but sometimes all that is...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
One of the germs that contributes to calf scours cases is cryptosporidia, or "crypto". Crypto is a one-celled protozoa that is normally present in small numbers in the digestive tract of cows and calves. As such, it's not an organism you can eliminate from a farm. Calves pick this bug up from manure on their mother or in their pen. It's a very hardy germ; in cool temperatures it can survive for weeks or months. Illness results when calves get exposed to enough of the...
Comments : 2
Recommendations: 0
1 Herd Health and Animal Husbandry, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
2 Animal and Bioscience Research...
Comments : 1
Recommendations: 0
INTRODUCTION Black gold, the buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is known as the world’s second most important milch animal as it shares more than 95% of the milk produced in the South Asia (Javaid et al., 2009). There are about 29.9 million heads of buffaloes in Pakistan (Afzal, 2010); out of these, 76.7% belong to Nili-Ravi breed, which is the most popular of buffaloes in Pakistan (Khaliq...
Comments : 12
Recommendations: 0
Cryptosporidium is a protozoan genus that belongs to the phylum Apicomplexa, class Sporozoasida, subclass Coccidiasina, order Eucoccidiorida, suborder Eimeriorina and family Cryptosporidiidae (Sterling and Arrowood 1993). This parasite has been detected in a wide range of vertebrate hosts. Infection, which usually causes selflimiting diarrhea in human and animals, can be fatal in immunocompromised individuals (O’Donoghue...
Comments : 0
Recommendations: 0
