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Tips to Curb Heat Stress in Cattle

Heat stress can be very damaging, even deadly, to any cattle herd, no matter how fit or healthy the animals may be. By better understanding heat stress, you can take easy and effective steps to curb its effects and keep your livestock cool and comfortable even in the harshest heat waves. What Is...

Tips On Fly Control For Your Cattle

Every year spring brings new beginnings. The sun shines, livestock begin to breed, and the grass begins to turn green again. With all that beauty also comes some disadvantages. The one disadvantage you should be aware of is fly season. Flies can torment your cattle and drain profits in pastures...

Grass Tetany in Livestock

Grass tetany can be a serious and even fatal problem for different types of livestock. Understanding and recognizing the condition, however, can help you keep your animals healthy and prevent grass tetany from taking a toll on your livestock. About Grass Tetany Grass tetany is a magnesium...

Overcoming Calf Health Issues

An unhealthy calf can be a strain on both beef and dairy farming, but many calf health issues can be overcome if they are recognized early and properly treated. By staying alert to your animals and providing them with exceptional care, you can easily raise healthy, productive calves. Diseases and...

Adjusting Your Cattle to the Changing Seasons

Acclimating yourself to the frigid winter months is certainly a difficult task following the warmth of summer and fall. Furnace maintenance, firewood stacking, and digging out your long johns all become obligatory chores at this time of year. But adjusting to changing seasons is even more difficult...

Weaning a Calf

Weaning a calf can be a delicate decision and should be made with several considerations in mind. When it is time for weaning, proper nutrition and a gentle process is essential to ensure successful weaning for healthy calves and cows. When to Wean The best age for weaning calves depends on many...

The Importance of Selecting Quality Hay

Whether you have horses, cattle, sheep, goats or other livestock, good quality hay is an essential part of their diet, and it is important to choose only the best hay to feed your animals. Why Good Hay Matters Depending on the animal, hay can make up 50 percent or more of its daily diet, and in...

Boost Your Cattle Respiratory Vaccine Program

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) and other respiratory ailments can be costly, deadly infections in any cattle herd, but if you boost your cattle respiratory vaccine program, you can minimize the risks and keep your animals healthy and productive. About Bovine Respiratory Disease Bovine...

Advantages of Mineral Tubs

It can be difficult to ensure your cattle have a balanced diet rich in essential minerals once you allow them to range and forage throughout a large pasture. Mineral tubs can be the answer to making sure your cattle have the proper nutrition. What Are Mineral Tubs and Their Benefits? Mineral tubs...

Preparing Your Cows For Winter

Obviously winter is a vulnerable time for your cows when you really need to pay attention to make sure they are staying healthy. Here are some tips on preparing your herd for winter:Size MattersIf you have cows that are younger or thinner than some of your more mature cows, they are going to need...

How to Control Flies on the Farm

Fly control is an important topic around many farms. They may be small, but flies are a big problem if not addressed properly through a combination of farm management techniques and fly-control products. Known as one of the largest nuisances on a farm or outdoors, flies will harass both you and...

Winter Cow Care

Cows can easily adapt to different seasons, but they can still suffer during the harshest winter months, losing condition and becoming less productive. By practicing good winter cow care, however, you can protect your herd from the dangers of the season and ensure they reach spring in top form. 8...

Tips on Bottle Feeding Calves, Lambs and Goats

No matter what type of livestock you raise, bottle feeding hungry youngsters is occasionally necessary. It doesn't have to be a hassle, however, and there are many ways to make bottle feeding calves, lambs and goats easy and enjoyable for both you and the animals. Why Bottle Feed? While regular...

Autumn Cow Calf Management Tips

Here are some general cow-calf management reminders for the fall season. This information has been adapted from the “Beef Cow Herd Calendar”1 developed by the Oklahoma State University Cooperative Extension Service. October Beginning in late October or November, provide supplemental feed for...

Year 'Round Supplementation Improves Pasture Utilization

It’s been a challenge raising registered Angus cattle through the last 13 years of drought on the Bradley 3 Ranch in the Texas Panhandle. “We’ve changed a lot of management over the last five or six years to cope with the drought,” says James Henderson, one of the ranch’s three owners. Much of...

Purina Accuration® Feed Nutrition Program Testimonial

W4 Ranch: Good Nutrition is Key to Producing High Quality Cattle A primary goal of W4 Ranch, Morgan, Texas, is to produce great high quality Hereford cattle. “Our basic goal is to be the top Herford breeder in the State of Texas,” says W4 general manager Jay Wright. “We go at it from a little...

Caring for Newborn Calves

Cattle may seem hardy, but newborn calves can be weak and delicate, and proper care in the first few hours of their lives will greatly improve survival rates and the overall health of newborns. 5 Essential Steps in Newborn Calf Care Calving season can be hectic, with cows giving birth at all hours...

Strategies for Feeding Show Animals

A good diet is essential for the highest quality show animals, no matter what type of livestock you hope to exhibit. Balanced nutrition and proper feed will not only keep valuable show animals healthy, but will also ensure their coat is in great condition, their eyes bright and their energy levels...

Calf scours and their treatment

When a calf develops scours it easily has the ability to kill them if not identified and treated properly. Scours, in its basic definition, is severe dehydration causing frequent and watery diarrhea.Quite often when a calf has scours, it will always be thirsty and try to drink anything that it can...

Tips for Creep Feeding Calves

Most calves are not likely to reach their maximum potential growth without your help and intervention through a practice known as “creep feeding.” Creep feeding involves providing supplemental feed to nursing calves to address a bovine predicament Purina calls “The Hungry Calf Gap.” This gap occurs...

Nutritional Tips for Heifer Reproduction

Good nutrition management is a key to reproductive efficiency in heifers. Animal scientists at the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension Service say heifers must be bred to calve at two years of age, and it is critical that they reach 65 percent of estimated mature weight prior to breeding.1...

Pay close attention to winter nutrition for your cattle

Taking shortcuts on your cattle nutrition during the winter months could be risk next year’s calf crop, this year’s weaning weights and the long-term viability of your herd. According to information from University of Minnesota Extension beef experts, winter feeding programs vary for each cattle...

Why It’s Important to Have Supplements Always Available for Your Cattle

Having nutritional supplements always available for your cattle to utilize during critical times can pay dividends. Not meeting nutritional requirements of heifers and cows during the last third of pregnancy and the first 60 days of lactation, for example, can cost producers great economic loss,...

Tips for Controlling Flies in Feed Lots and Pastures

Warmer weather almost always guarantees an increase in the number of flies that can adversely affect cattle performance and health. Here are some quick tips to help you control flies in feedlots and pastures: In Feed Lots Sanitation—Flies need manure and other materials for laying their eggs....

Management Tips for First Calf Heifers

First-calf heifers are among the most challenged members of the herd. They require special care to successfully make the transition from birthing their first calf to becoming a reproductively efficient cow that produces a healthy calf each year and breeds back early. In a nutshell, that is the goal...