BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Once calves are safely on the ground, many cattle producers continue to worry about the possibility of neonatal calf diarrhea or calf scours, says Janna Kincheloe, South Dakota ...

Large crowds of farmers gathered at a calf rearing information night that took place in Co. Longford on Thursday evening, ...

Like anything else, prevention is preferable to treatment when dealing with scours among calves. Doctor of veterinary medicine and University of Minnesota Extension educator Joe Armstrong has some ...

Neonatal calf diarrhea, or scours, is a common concern among cow-calf producers. Understanding why scours occurs is the first step in preventing the problem. Calf scours outbreaks are the result of a ...

The dry period is an important time to incorporate prevention points that guard cow health and the health of their offspring against scours. Scours accounts for one-half of all deaths of pre-weaned ...

Calf scours results in sickness, poor performance, medical expenses and death. Scours is a complex disease with many inter-related causes. Agent, host and environmental factors collectively explain ...

Diarrhea in calves can be a challenge, and the No. 1 killer of calves during the first weeks of life. It’s generally not the gut infection that kills a calf, however, but dehydration. Early treatment ...

I grew up in the cow-calf sector, and the topic of calf health is very near and dear to my heart. We want to give calves the best chance possible to thrive and of course, survive, through the really ...

Steve Wikse, professor of large animal clinical sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M University, answers this month's beef cattle health question. Q - This colder weather has resulted ...

ImmuCell Corporation ICCC is a cattle-health innovator built on practical, science-backed solutions that cut the toll of calf scours and cow mastitis while reducing the reliance on traditional ...

Dear Daktari, I am a retired civil servant who is now a full-time dairy farmer here in Webuye town. Last month, I lost a very good calf, and the only thing I observed before its death was diarrhoea. I ...

Dear doctor, thanks for the informative articles in Smart Harvest. I started dairy farming four years ago but on a wrong footing when my two in-calf delivered two days apart and I lost the two calves ...