Animal welfare issues have received more attention in the press over the last few years than they had the previous century. The livestock production system and its owners and managers have paid attention to animal welfare ...

Beef heifers experience calving difficulty, or dystocia, more frequently than do mature cows. Dystocia is characterized by prolonged or difficult labor due to heavy birthweight and/or small pelvic area of the dam. Death ...

When establishing a vaccination program it is important to understand how animals naturally protect themselves from infection and how vaccination and other management practices enhance that protection

Ever-tightening profit margins and recurring cyclical downturns in cattle and calf markets have forced many cattle producers to search for ways to make their operations more profitable. Of course, cutting the costs of ...

This study was conducted at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station in Bushland during the summers of 1999 and 2000. Performance of stocker cattle grazing either Seed Resources BMR 200 (brown-midrib sorghum x sudan hybrid) ...

For beef cattle, biosecurity involves a system of management practices that prevent diseases from infecting a herd. Although biosecurity is often associated with foreign animal diseases, the term also applies to common ...