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There are options to induce abortion, but it would be wise to first determine how far along she is. As they get farther along, more drugs are necessary and potential risks to the heifer increase. In some cases, abortion is probably not advised.

So before we all jump ship from Inforce to Nasalgen, a couple questions. Does anyone have issues with bacterial pneumonia in pre-branding age calves? Mannheimia in these calves certainly exists, but it isn't common. I see it by far most commonly in calves out of first calf heifers, but not all...

What are you trying to achieve by feeding tubs? What are you hoping to gain nutritionally?

If you are trying to kill lice, Clean Up is the product you should be using at this point.

No, you can start it right away. The sample will degrade with time. If you are submitting some from that fecal pile, you will want to have it looked at sooner than later, but will have a little time if it’s been refrigerated.

The GI mucosa is highly vascular and it is not uncommon to have a small degree of bleeding from it. I'm not sure what starts it, some sharp roughage that didn't get fully digested? stretching? I don't know. The same thing commonly happens in people where they will occasionally see a streak of...

She probably has a small bleed in the rectum, given that the blood is all together with some mucous. She shouldn’t need anything.

If these aborted a couple months ago, your chances of finding the reason now are extremely low, abortion cases are very challenging to solve and it is simply not possible to diagnose the cause of most abortions this long after. A single blood test is likely to get you nowhere. Regardless, I...

Roundworms in dogs can basically go from one animals straight to the next through feces consumption. However, most cattle worms are required to go through developmental stages outside of the animal. Cattle can consume the eggs of these parasites and they would simply die, they have to hatch and...

The most simple answer is to do fecals on a handful and see if they have parasites. Takes grass and moisture for most parasite transmission, if either of those are lacking infection will be reduced. 2.5 month old calves can have parasites.

I don't think at these cattle prices it is cost effective to give to mature cows, and it has never been a cost effective method of fly control. It will often reduce fly populations, but on it's own will generally not be enough when there is heavy fly pressure. Using it in the calves could be...

A single dose of tetanus vaccine at time of banding will provide little to no tetanus protection. At a minimum you will need to do a dose a couple weeks ahead of time and another at banding, and even that won’t meet the label recommendations.

There is decent success treating these with IV sodium iodine. 2-3 doses about 3 weeks apart will give more success than a single dose. Often success with these is making it stop growing, may see a slight degree of size reduction. However, once it stops growing the animal will often do well, it...

Nuflor has superior joint penetration for severe infections that have reached the bone. The most common reason to use Draxxin on these is that it goes through a dart gun well. Recent infections with a lesser degree of lameness will generally respond to LA products, I would give both LA and Sustain.

There are 2 options for getting a VFD for CTC for anaplasmosis. The first is to buy bagged CTC and mix that into a daily ration for at 2 mg/lb BW, or buy a premade ration like that. This would usually be done with the 10 g crumbles, but there are ways of doing it with 50 g granular also. Option...

The label certainly does try to put a scare into people for not using Preg-Guard, which is convenient considering they sell that product also. For me, the significant risk of pneumonia in calves outweighs whatever minuscule risk of abortion there may be when a vaccinated calf is nursing an...

Your calves would be better off health wise if you gave the bovi-shield a couple weeks before weaning. It would be good if they had already developed some immunity when you started to wean. They are not going to respond as well to the vaccine when they are going through weaning stress at the...

I wouldn't expend a lot of effort trying to get aspirin in him, as a ruminant he will not be able to utilize much of it.

The cavalry product uses a newer carrier, making it less prone to adverse reactions. Beyond that, there is no difference in efficacy, other than the inclusion of C. sordellii.

You need to find a different neighbor to get medical advice from.