Top 4 Foot Bath Management Mistakes - Solved

Top 4 Foot Bath Management Mistakes - Solved. By Jim Edwards, Ph.D. Sirius, LLC. No doubt that you’ve read numerous articles on footbath management; but, few tell you the common mistakes that impact the success of your footbath program.  Most footbath product labels include generic management...

Dairy Cow Hoof Health

Dairy Cow Hoof Health. By Heather Smith Thomas. Strong, healthy feet are important, and in a dairy there are many factors that can compromise hoof health.  It takes good management and diligence to keep feet healthy, and timely treatment for any lameness issues.  Most dairies utilize the services...

KeyAg Custom Oral Electrolyte Program

KeyAg Custom Oral Electrolyte Program“Prevention, Support and Recovery of Diarrhetic Calves” Article Courtesy of KeyAg Calf ScoursDiarrhea is the most common problem in calves less than 30 days of age, and metabolic acidosis is the leading acid-base cause of death in calves with diarrhea....

Deworming Dairy Heifers

Deworming Dairy HeifersBy Heather Smith ThomasInternal parasites can be a problem for cattle, but many factors determine whether or not they are a big enough problem to worry about.  Large numbers of worms can impact health and growth; young cattle that are heavily infested don’t grow as well as they would...

What Minerals do Goats Require?

What Minerals do Goats Require?  Article courtesy of T.E. Peterson, Florida A&M University Certified Master Goat Program. To achieve maximum production levels, it is necessary to provide a free choice complete goat mineral supplement or a 50:50 mix of trace mineralized salt and dicalcium phosphate. In...

Colostrum Management: What you Need to Know

Colostrum Management: What you Need to Know.  By Dr. John Chalstrom, Ph.D.  Managing a colostrum program is perhaps the most important step in reducing disease in neonatal calves on a farm. This is the message that Stacy Dill, Global Marketing Director for PanTheryx APS La Belle would like to share with...

Care of Does Before Kidding

Care of Does Before Kidding.  Proper Monitoring and Care of Goats during Parturition, or Kidding, is Important for the Overall Health of the Goat Herd. Article courtesy of Alabama A&M and Auburn University Extension.Adult dairy goats are generally less commonly affected than young stock by parasitism or...

Understanding and Managing Metabolic Diseases

Understanding and Managing Metabolic Diseases.  By Jaclyn Krymowski. Despite years of learning and research, along with some good old-fashioned trial and error, metabolic diseases continue to be a crippling issue within the dairy industry There are certainly enough white papers, articles and research on this...