Disease

Cancer Eye – An Ugly Issue

Cancer Eye – An Ugly Issue. By Jaclyn Krymowski. It’s one of the most unglamourous plagues your cattle might suffer – cancer eye, the layman’s term for ocular neoplasia, which is a type of bovine leukosis. While it’s certainly not the only eye-related afflictions impacting...

Calving Season Priorities

 Calving Season Priorities By Bruce Derksen for American Cattlemen MagazineThe priority at calving time is to first deliver a live calf from each pregnant female and then to kick-start that calf through the beginning stage of its life in a healthy fashion.  Numerous factors attack this goal including...

Bovine Respiratory Disease

Bovine Respiratory DiseaseArticle provided by Dr. Murray Jelinski and Dr. Eugene JanzenBovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) is the most common and costly disease affecting the North American beef cattle industry. In the broadest sense, BRD refers to any disease of the upper or lower respiratory tracts. BRD is commonly...

Disease Prevention

There are seven major reproductive diseases in cattle; one of them - Brucella abort us, the cause of brucellosis - has been nearly vanquished. But the others still lie in wait for the opportunity to rob ranchers of profits. B. Abort us still surfaces occasionally and there are other pathogens that show up sporadically...