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My property has a lot of oaks and this year and last year those oaks produced an incredible bounty of acorns. Both my horses and Angus browse on them and none have ever shown any adverse effects. The cattle have a roll of hay to munch on, and there's still some grass, so they aren't feeding...

A decade or so ago an Alabama cattle owner near where I used to live lost a lot of cattle to it, according to the vet who did the necropsies. FWIW, the owner had good pastures that were not overstocked, and the cattle were in good condition.

I'm very paranoid about net wrap ingestion and there are many extension pubs ("software disease of cattle") about it. A lot of people with cattle around me leave the net wrap and their cattle are very thin. Whether it's because they ingested some of the net wrap or the quality of care or both, I...

Misting fans are what kept the equestrian portion of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, GA, and it gets pretty hot and humid there, and those horses were working their butts off. So don't discount their use.

Dermatophilus congolensis is a very common bacterial skin disease that will occur on wet skin of horses and cattle. If you were able to feel the adjacent hair and feel lumps, peel one off. If the hair is sticking through a scab, it is most likely Dermatophilus or dermatophilosis (the condition...

Appears to be a granulomatous disease, which can be caused by a number of pathogens including parasites and certain types of bacteria including bovine tuberculosis as mentioned above. Some, but not all, are zoonotic diseases (transmissible from non-human animals to humans). I would submit fresh...

A couple of years ago one of my calves (less than a week old) developed diarrhea which over the course of the day became a very bloody diarrhea. I thought coccidiosis was most likely, but looked at a fresh fecal sample via microscope, and while there were some coccidia, it was mostly made of...