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If you haven't already, I would give all your calves a nasal respiratory vaccine such as Inforce 3. I would check the temperatures on all of them while I had them in the chute, and only treat those with a high temperature. This should help to prevent most respiratory viruses from going through...

I can see by your picture and the desire for extra hair growth, that you are feeding show cattle. My cattle are commercial. Commercial cattle will be fed using whatever is economically available in your environment. Ideally they are fed on nothing but grass year around, but for most that is...

It lists Hardjo on the label. Perhaps there is more than one type of Lepto with Hardjo in the name? I was originally looking for a product that included HB and my Vet recommended Bovi-Shield FP5 VL5. When I saw Hardjo in the list on the box, I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that it was HB.

If your cows have already calved this year, you can use the Modified live. The Douglas County Farmers Coop in Roseburg has Bovi-Shield Gold FP5 VL5 in stock. The cost was less than $30 for 10 doses. It doesn't include Somnus but it does have the Lepto vaccine including Hardjo Bovis. That is...

None of these cows are PG. The bulls won't go in until the middle of May and the last 2023 calf was born the end of March.

My belief that you can't vaccinate cows when they are pregnant or nursing came from my own interpretation of things I had read or heard in the past. So I guess I was the one with the reading comprehension problem. :( I have no one else to blame. I heard "pregnant cow, nursing calves" and that...

We just got in a small supply of ViraShield at our local Farmers Coop, but the kind with Vibrio or Lepto added is not available, and they have no idea when it will be. I really need the Lepto vaccine with Hardjo Bovis in this area. I have used ViraShield VL5 HB on the cows for years, mostly...

The day after I finally ordered the expensive eartags from the Coop, I got an email from Jeffers telling me yellow eartags were in stock and ready to ship. I called the Coop back and was able to cancel my order. My Jeffers order should be here on Monday.

Yep, we have one in the RTV. Never go anywhere without them. I can read a cow or calves tag from a long ways off, if it isn't covered in mud. I also started putting the numbers on both the front and back of the tag, so I can see who it is even when they're facing away.

The Ytex one piece tags are sold under the name Y-tag and I agree they are easier to load. They are like the Z-tags were, before they were bought out by a different company that used cheaper materials. I was not able to find any yellow Y-tags online at my usual sources either, and Coop has...

Thank you for the offer. That is very kind of you. I talked to the Coop today and they were able to special order the yellow ones. They are almost 50% more than the green ones I bought, but he told me they all went up in price recently. As a member of Coop, they sell them to me for just...

Good idea. When I was trying to find cow tags I noted how less expensive the calf tags were. In the past the difference was minimal, but now it is substantial. I need to quit being such a creature of habit. Like you said, the steer calves and most of my heifers won't be here by winter, so I...

I see they are available on Amazon at almost double there normal price and in a limited supply.

Neither place has the one piece tags on hand. DC Coop does not carry them in stock, but you can order them and they will attempt to get them for you. I expect they will have the same problem getting them that I have had. I don't know about Tractor Supply. I am not sure if they do special...

Does anyone know what is going on with the no snag eartags, such as Z-tags and Y-tags. I have tried to buy yellow and white for over a year now and they are always out of stock. I prefer the light colors because they are easier to read at a distance, but I've finally had to order whatever I...

For comparison to Silver's post: Here are 10 dose prices in Oregon USA. $44 Canadian = $32.26 US 10 dose Nasalgen 3 PHM $35.07. 10 dose Inforce 3 $16.50, plus 10 dose One Shot BVD $29.64 = $46.14 combined

Checked out the Coop website. My price for 50 dose Inforce 3 is $66.61. Nasalgen 3 50 dose is $163.58. One shot BVD 50 dose is $152.44. Looks like it is cheaper to give Nasalgen 3 rather than giving Inforce 3 along with the One Shot. If you are not worried about BVD & Mannheima Haemolyica...

Like Dave, I don't treat every calf with a snotty nose, but if they start to act sick and I see them off by themselves and uninterested in nursing, we get on it fast. Your calf looks good in the pictures. I probably would not be giving antibiotics, but I would get her vaccinated. A few years...

I would talk to your vet. The swelling in her glands would indicate she is fighting some sort of infection. She could improve on her own, or she could suddenly get much worse and her airway could be blocked and you'd have a dead cow. I would definitely include a vet in diagnosis. If you can't...

I am not sure what prices are now, but it was plenty expensive when I put it in the barn in early August. Alfalfa is always more expensive here than most of the country. They don't grow much in the valley and most of what they do grow is already spoken for. I believe it would be over $300 per...