Livestock
Reading Time: < 1 minute The 7th annual Grazing School for Women is being held in Smoky Lake on June 10 and 11, 2009. Participants are asked to bring appropriate clothing as sessions will run rain or shine. Topics on the agenda include: climate change and agriculture the secret life of cows – grazing and livestock behaviour steak challenge – […] Read more
Grazing School For Women
Veterinary College’s Expansions Funded
Reading Time: < 1 minute The federal Western Economic Diversification agency has pledged over $2.7 million for the Western College of Veterinary Medicine to expand its diagnostics lab and renovate one of its clinic facilities. The WCVM, based at the University of Saskatchewan, is now completing a two-storey diagnostics addition and basement, expected to add about 3,000 square metres of […] Read more
Why Sheep Producers Need Bluetongue Insurance
Reading Time: 2 minutes Bluetongue disease is spreading quickly around the world. If experience elsewhere in the world is an indicator, it is only a matter of time before bluetongue (BT) spreads into unaffected regions in Canada. Once BT infects an animal, the disease can spread rapidly through an entire flock. The midge which carries the disease cannot be […] Read more
Mock Livestock Emergency Training For EMS
Reading Time: 2 minutes Thousands of animals are being transported daily along Alberta highways, accidents happen, that includes vehicles transporting livestock. When that happens, we have to have the right tools and the training to help these animals and keep the people who are working with them safe,” says Corporal Dave Heaslip, an RCMP livestock investigator. “Training is important […] Read more
Pennsylvania Calf Pool Boosts Feeder Prices
Reading Time: < 1 minute Eight thousand calves were sold for premium prices last year through a program that is helping to increase profits for Pennsylvania beef producers. Begun in 1995, the Pennsylvania Feeder Calf Pool traditionally has added 10 to 25 cents a pound to the sale price, according to Dustin Heeter, livestock-production educator for Penn State Cooperative Extension […] Read more
“Bananeros” Trial Could Be Tossed
Reading Time: < 1 minute A Los Angeles judge could throw out two bellwether lawsuits accusing Dole Food Co. of exposing Nicaraguan banana plantation workers to pesticides that made them sterile over allegations that plaintiffs’ lawyers committed a massive fraud on the court. At the conclusion of a three-day hearing that starts on Tuesday, Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney is […] Read more
Coccidiosis — Practical Control And Treatment
Reading Time: 4 minutes For every clinical case there are many subclinical cases affecting performance and this may carry on for the life of the animal. Coccidiosis can be one of the most frustrating diseases to treat in young beef calves. If not caught early death losses can be as high as 20 per cent and many calves will […] Read more
Dealing With Sick Or Injured Pigs
Reading Time: 3 minutes In my last article, I wrote about the importance of recognizing health problems in pigs as soon as possible in order to minimize the economic losses caused by disease or injury and avoid compromising the pigs’ welfare. Just as important is how to approach the treatment of such pigs and make decisions about if and […] Read more
Cattle 83 per cent human, or vice-versa?
University of Illinois researchers mapping the cattle genome say that of the genes mapped so far, 83 per cent could be identified as identical to human genes. “The comparative map has enormous predictive power,” lead researcher Harris Lewin, director of the W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics at the University of Illinois said […] Read more
Vet warns of infection risk due to wet calving conditions
A North Dakota State University Extension Service veterinarian says cattle producers should be especially careful to avoid a parasitic infection during this spring’s damp calving conditions. Charlie Stoltenow says a number of calves are suffering from cryptosporidiosis this spring, which can put their handlers at risk. “This extremely wet and sloppy spring calving season increases […] Read more
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