Handbook for Beef Calf Health

by Robert Sager

Overview

With more than 40 years of experience as a practicing veterinarian, and a PhD in Animal Science, author Bob Sager gives ranchers, students, and extension agents the practical tips and scientific knowledge needed to raise healthy beef cattle.

Includes chapters on the most crucial aspects of beef calf heath, including gestational care; colostrum, feeding, and supplementation; scours and dehydration (including viral, bacterial, and parasitic causes); pneumonia and BRD; preventive health; and vaccination.

Full color, with 50 diagrams, tables, and figures that clearly demonstrate key concepts. Also includes a guide to performing field necropsies, and a gallery of commonly-used products and tools.

Whether beginner or advanced, everyone can benefit from Sager's packed-with-facts handbook.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781773420554
Publisher:	Medicine Creek Bovine Health
Publication date:	08/03/2018
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Bob Sager, DVM PhD DABVP (Beef Cattle), has over 40 years of experience as a practicing veterinarian, including time as the senior veterinarian at the world's largest vertical integrated beef cattle complex, with over 437,000 head of Angus beef cattle. Sager has also taught Animal Science classes at Montana State University, and pioneered the understanding of the effects of cobalt on the immune system in beef cattle.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Gestational Nutrition and Care
   
   1. Gestational nutrition
   2. Body condition scores
   3. Calving
   
   
   
   
2. Newborn Calf Health
   
   1. Keys to newborn calf survival
   2. Colostrum
   3. The importance of feeding schedule
   4. Supplementation
   5. Septicemia
   
   
   
   
3. Diarrhea (Scours)
   
   1. Overview of diarrhea-causing diseases
   2. Dehydration
   3. E. coli and colibacilosis
   4. Clostridium complexes
   5. Viral diarrhea complexes
   6. Salmonella
   7. Cryptosporidiosis
   8. Coccidiosis
   9. Preventing diarrhea
   
   
   
   
4. Pneumonia and BRD
   
   1. Defenses of the bovine respiratory system
   2. Pneumonia
   3. Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD)
   4. Detecting BRD
   5. Treating pneumonia and BRD
   6. Why are pneumonia and BRD such persistent problems?
   
   
   
   
5. Preventive Health Recommendations
   
   1. Key goals in management for prevention
   2. Basic immunology
   3. Stress
   4. Nutrition
   5. Vaccination
   6. A note on genetic engineering and immunity
   
   
   
   
6. Necropsy of the Beef Calf
   
   1. Overview
   2. Reasons for a necropsy and first considerations
   3. Site selection
   4. Supplies and equipment
   5. Position, inspection, and incisions
   6. Transporting samples
   
   
   
   
7. Common Products for Beef Calf Health
   
   1. Colostrum products
   2. Electrolyte products
   3. Antibiotic products and injectable antibiotics
   4. Other commonly used products
   5. Implants
   6. Comparison of antibiotics
   
   
   
   
8. Supplementary
   
   1. Future of beef production in the United States
   2. References and Citations
   3. List of Figures, Tables, and Images