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  • Antibodies and antibiotics

    Monday, April 12, 2021 9:14 AM
        The words sound almost the same, but they are completely different things.
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  • Should you extend the VWP in your herd?

    Monday, March 15, 2021 11:27 AM
        In a December 2016 Dairy Star article, we discussed economics of changing the voluntary waiting period comparing a 60-day voluntary waiting period to an 88-day VWP for first lactation and for second and more lactation cows.
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  • Failure

    Monday, February 15, 2021 9:08 AM
        “Doc, I consider this to be a failure,” was one of the first things Tom said when I arrived at the dairy to do a laparotomy to correct an LDA.
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  • Eating the elephant

    Monday, January 18, 2021 2:02 PM
        I was mowing the lawn on a beautiful, sunny and warm Saturday afternoon when my phone vibrated in my pocket.
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  • Are cows healthier today?

    Saturday, December 12, 2020 11:42 AM
        Our practice publishes an annual benchmarking spreadsheet with data from freestall herds. We have saved spreadsheets going back to 2004.
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  • Dehydration and fluid therapy

    Monday, October 12, 2020 10:14 AM
        Dehydration in cattle occurs when the amount of bodily fluids is reduced from normal.
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  • The high udder health cycle

    Monday, September 14, 2020 9:00 AM
        The concept of the high fertility cycle has been proposed by Middleton, Fricke and others. The idea is that timely pregnancies in one lactation may lead to less body condition loss, fewer health issues, greater fertility and reduced pregnancy loss in the next lactation.
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  • Serum total protein related to calf health

    Monday, August 10, 2020 9:16 AM
        For many years, veterinarians have stressed that adequate and timely consumption of clean colostrum is important.
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  • Gone viral

    Monday, July 13, 2020 1:39 PM
        In the popular lexicon, gone viral means spreading really fast, and most commonly the phrase is used to refer to spread of a video.
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  • SARA in weaned calves

    Monday, June 15, 2020 9:27 AM
        Bob raises heifers for a client. He contacted me because my client’s calves were struggling with diarrhea and respiratory disease shortly after moving to his farm.
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