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Forage Quality Photo Guide: Evaluating Diet Quality Selected by Grazing Beef Cattle Using Photographic Guidelines
Both animal productivity and ranch profitability can be affected by the nutritional management of grazing beef cattle. Management of beef cattle nutrition should be based on the quantity and quality of forage, as well as ...
Nitrates and Prussic Acid in Forages: Sampling, Testing and Management Strategies
When nitrates and prussic acid accumulate in forage, the feed may not be safe for livestock consumption.
Value Added Calf (VAC) - Vaccination Programs
Most calves are healthy when they leave the ranch, but stress caused by weaning, marketing, transportation, changes in environment, and other factors lower the level of disease resistance at a time when exposure to disease ...
Protecting Cattle from Horn Flies
For cattle in Texas, the most damaging insect pest is the horn fly. Research has shown that a calf infested with more than 200 horn flies will gain 15 to 50 pounds less than normal from birth to weaning and sale (about 4 ...
Proper Use of Drugs and Chemicals in Food Animals
Federal regulations exist to ensure the proper distribution and usage of veterinary drugs and to prevent adulteration of the food supply with illegal drug residues through drug misuse in food producing animals
Use of Preventive and Therapeutic Drugs in Show Market Animals
Various preventive and therapeutic medicines may be used for disease management in show market livestock and poultry. These include vaccines and bacterins, antibiotics and antibacterials, parasiticides and corticosteroids. ...
Texas Bovine Trichomoniasis Control Program: Facts for Cattle Owners
Bovine trichomoniasis (Trich) is a venereal disease caused by the protozoan, Tritrichomonas foetus. Because Trich has no visible symptoms in bulls and few, if any, visible symptoms in cows and heifers, it is best to prevent ...
Anaplasmosis In Beef Cattle
naplasmosis is an infectious disease of cattle that causes destruction of red blood cells. The disease is caused by a minute parasite, Anaplasma marginale , found in the red blood cells of infected cattle. It can be ...