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G75-269 Calf Scours — Causes And Treatment (Revised June 1996), Don Hudson, Dale Grotelueschen
G75-269 Calf Scours — Causes And Treatment (Revised June 1996), Don Hudson, Dale Grotelueschen
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
Calf scours or calf diarrhea cause significant financial loss to cow-calf producers.
This NebGuide discusses causes, treatment, supportive therapy, and herd management.
G75-232 Cow-Calf Herd Health Program Basics, Dale Grotelueschen, Duane Rice
G75-232 Cow-Calf Herd Health Program Basics, Dale Grotelueschen, Duane Rice
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension: Historical Materials
This NebGuide suggests ideas and discusses some basic essentials of health management in beef cow operations.
Establishing a good cow-calf herd health program is a necessary step if profit is to be realized. Managing disease risk is an important aspect of a good health program design. Vaccinations help reduce the probability of disease but cannot solely be depended upon for prevention. Well-designed herd health programs address multiple areas of management in order to reduce likelihood of disease outbreaks. The objective of any beef herd health program should be to profitably produce calves having optimum weaning weights from a high percentage …
G75-269 Calf Scours: Causes, Prevention And Treatment, Don Hudson, R. Gene White
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.