Preventing Calving Difficulty in the Beef Herd

First-calf heifers are the most prone to dystocia.

As we move closer to spring, many ranchers are thinking ahead to calving season. This rewarding yet challenging time on the ranch comes with plenty of difficulties and worries, one of which is potential calving difficulties, or dystocia.

What Do You Need to Know About Coccidiosis?

How to prevent and treat a coccidiosis outbreak.

Producer question: We have had some problems with coccidiosis in our calves this spring. Can you help me understand its life cycle and the best preventative measures so we don’t have to deal with this next year?

White Muscle Disease in Cattle is Caused by Nutrient Deficiency

Selenium and vitamin E are important components in combating oxidative stress and maintaining proper muscle function.

White muscle disease is a nutritional myopathy sometimes called nutritional myodegeneration due to the breakdown of the muscle as the result of selenium or vitamin E deficiency.

Can You Program Fertility?

How nutrition can affect future puberty attainment, fertility and the ovarian reserve.

Replacement heifers are an incredibly important, yet expensive part of our operations. Wouldn’t it be great if we could program fertility in our breeding females? For an episode of the Angus at Work podcast, our team sat down with the University of Wyoming’s Shelby Rosasco to discuss the role developmental programming has within your operation.

Keep Track of Withdrawal Times for Medications and Vaccines

Notching the tag is an easy way to track treatments on individual animals.

When an animal is given medication, a drug or vaccine, it takes a certain amount of time for the body to break it down and eliminate it. That animal should not enter the food chain until all residues are gone.

Cattle Nutrition: Looking Back, Looking Forward

Evaluate what went right during winter feeding and how to improve next year.

With the warm temperatures we’ve had lately, spring green-up is around the corner, and the fescue is about to take off. But I think it’s always useful to look back, so you can look forward.