Cow-calf producers across North America face wide-ranging challenges each calving season but scours and neonatal diarrhea often top the list. Various systems are used to help prevent what can become ...

Then cows that have not calved are moved to a new pasture weekly. Each batch of calves is not exposed to older calves that may be shedding calf scours agents.

A spring-calving cow needs to be at BCS 3-3.5 at weaning time, which slowly falls over winter to 2.5 at calving. “Cows need to be on a positive plane of nutrition before calving.

Having tackled efficiencies in the 290-cow Holstein herd, in January last year Mr Baggs shifted his attention towards the calf shed.

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Don’t forget to vaccinate cows for scour, this must be done more than three weeks before calving, and less than 12 weeks before calving, to provide optimum levels of immunity.

For many folks, you get calf scours. Scours can be reduced, though, by subdividing calving pasture and properly moving cows through them.

WITH calf numbers on farms growing by the week, grass growth slow and the weather getting milder, but very changeable, this is an opportune time for an infectious scour problem to raise its head ...