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G75-232 Cow-Calf Herd Health Program (Revised April 1993), Duane Rice

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Establishing a good cow-calf herd health program is a necessary step in the right direction if a profit is to be realized. The objective of any beef herd health program should be for 100 percent of the cows to produce a calf weighing enough to provide a reasonable return.

This NebGuide discusses essentials of health management in beef cow operations.

G75-269 Calf Scours: Causes, Prevention And Treatment, Don Hudson, R. Gene White

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials

Calf scours or calf diarrhea: understand how to recognize and treat this costly condition. Calf scours or calf diarrhea causes more financial loss to cow-calf producers than any other disease-related problem they encounter. Calf scours is not a disease--it is a clinical sign of a disease which can have many causes. In diarrheas, the intestine fails to absorb fluids and/or secretion into the intestine is increased.