beef calves
Minimising the stress of weaning of beef calves: a review
... six-month-old beef calves that were prevented from nursing with the use of nose-flaps displayed increased vocalization, walking and reduced playing, ruminating and grazing, indicating that cessa- tion of ...
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Herd Level Antimicrobial Resistance in Beef Calves in Switzerland 1986 through 2011
... in beef calf production in ...for beef calves to leave their farm of origin around the 10 th day post partum only protected by a passive immunity, ...of calves is the result of a high demand ...
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Quantifying subclinical trauma associated with calving difficulty, vigour, and passive immunity in newborn beef calves
... This cross-sectional study quantifies subclinical trauma associated with calving difficulty, calf vigour, and passive immunity (PI) in newborn beef calves. The degree of calving difficulty was categorised ...
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Increased annexin A1 and A2 levels in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid are associated with resistance to respiratory disease in beef calves
... of beef calves could be economically beneficial, improve welfare by preventing unexpected disease occurrences, refine and reduce the use of antibiotics in beef production, and facilitate alternative ...
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Frequency of energy supplementation and its effects on growth and immunity of recently weaned beef calves
... feeding beef cattle high grain- based diets led to an accumulation of microbial endotoxins in the ruminal fluid that induced a general nonspecific inflammatory response (Berry et ...of beef steers peaked ...
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Benefits of Preconditioning Beef Calves Compared to the Traditional Marketing Practice
... by beef farmers on the farm for enhancing health and nutrition of beef ...feeder calves if preconditioning is ...of beef calves in the state of Alabama from ...23% calves were ...
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Insights into Pasteurellaceae carriage dynamics in the nasal passages of healthy beef calves
... In the studies reported here, we optimised three TaqMan qPCR assays for detection and quantification of Histophilus somni, Mannheimia haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida in bovine nasal swabs, and applied these assays ...
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The influence of age and breed of cow on colostrum indicators of suckled beef calves
... result, calves are born hypogammaglobulinemic (have a naïve immune system) and absorption of colostral immunoglobulins is essential to establish passive immunity (Weaver et ...601 beef calves in ...
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Effects of Topical Anaesthetic and Buccal Meloxicam Treatments on Concurrent Castration and Dehorning of Beef Calves
... The duration of time spent eating was significantly greater in CONP calves than. 314[r] ...
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Molecular epidemiology and subgroup determination of bovine group A rotaviruses associated with diarrhea in dairy and beef calves
... Genome electropherotypes produced by group A rotavirus-positive fecal specimens, collected from diarrheic calves in 27 dairy and 2 beef herds, had segment distributions among the four si[r] ...
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Welfare outcomes for 3- and 6-month-old beef calves in a tropical environment castrated surgically or by applying rubber rings
... kg) calves were assigned to a two age × three cas- tration (surgical, ring and sham) treatment factorial study (Surg3, Surg6, Ring3, Ring6, Sham3 and Sham6, n = 10 for each treatment ...Surg calves ...
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Weaning management of beef calves - practical guidelines for northern Australian
... Research and demonstration on weaning and weaning management has been carried out for over 50 years. There is also a wealth of research results, and field experience in this area held by advisors to the beef ...
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Dairy beef production as an alternative to supplying the dairy company
... Zealand beef systems are traditionally pasture based with little or no growth over autumn and winter and finishing at 26-36 months of age (Saldias & Gibbs, ...weaner beef calves are fed FB until ...
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Reference gene selection for quantitative PCR studies in bovine neutrophils
... Reference genes are essential for studying mRNA ex- pression with quantitative PCR (qPCR). We investi- gated 11 candidate whole-blood neutrophil reference genes (ACTB, B2M, G6PD, GAPDH, GYPC, HPRT, PGK1, RPL19, SDHA, ...
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Calf health from birth to weaning. I. General aspects of disease prevention
... The principal function of a maternity site is to simulate as closely as possible natural calving conditions as is the norm for extensively managed beef suckler cows. To simu- late natural calving conditions for ...
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Conservation of livestock genetic resources by targeted on farm management: a case study of Hinterwälder Cattle in the Southern Black Forest
... Tethering is the most serious constraint to organic conversion for Hinterwälder farms. Most small-scale farms retain the traditional housing system because they cannot afford building investments. Also, the demand for ...
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Economic values of traits for Slovakian Pied cattle under different marketing strategies
... As there are substantial differences in the relative economic importance of traits for different mar- keting strategies, it will be beneficial to construct different production indices for Slovakian Pied cat- tle (in ...
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Efficacy of Toltrazuril 5 % suspension against Eimeria bovis and Eimeria zuernii in calves and observations on the associated immunopathology
... naive calves. Each one of the two calves was infected with approximately 22,000 ...these calves were shedding sufficient oocysts to prepare the specified infective doses for all of the calves ...
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A Comparative Assessment of the Microbial Load of Beef and Chicken Meat Collected at Different Hours of the Day in Ekpoma Town Market
... A study on comparative assessment of the microbial load of beef and chicken meat collected at different hours of the day in Ekpoma town market was carried out. Samples were purchased at 8am, 1pm and 5pm and taken ...
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Economic efficiency of suckler cow herds in the Czech Republic
... Subjective evaluation of factors by farmers Based on the farmers’ opinions, the prosperity of their farms mostly depends on the breed kept (4.5 points on the 1–5 scale), which is in agreement with the findings of Šafus ...
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