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  • A fresh pen

    Monday, May 13, 2019 10:06 AM
    I had the opportunity to fill in for an absent herdsman and perform his daily fresh pen examinations.
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  • A bovine first aid kit

    Monday, April 15, 2019 10:21 AM
        In the old days, veterinarians dealt with a lot of emergencies on dairy farms. Today this is much less the case. It is not that cows and calves do not have emergencies, but that today’s farmers handle most themselves.
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  • Growing dairy in China

    Monday, March 11, 2019 1:29 PM
        Recently, I visited China to consult on dairy farms. It was a fascinating experience.
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  • Who took my colostrum?

    Monday, February 11, 2019 11:27 AM
        Low colostrum yield has recently become a more common complaint from dairy farmers.
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  • Antibiotic treatment decisions for mastitis

    Monday, January 14, 2019 10:43 AM
        There are only a handful of antibiotics approved for treatment of mastitis in the United States.
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  • Hold that VWP

    Monday, December 10, 2018 10:16 AM
        Years ago, we used to hear that most cows were not fully ready to breed until around 40 days after calving. Some farmers would breed cows if they were just past 40 days in milk, but over time most seemed to wait until 50 days before breeding.
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  • Red cow, black cow

    Monday, November 12, 2018 10:01 AM
        Stated simply, cow 2178 was ugly. She was one of those three-way Holstein, Monteliarde and a red breed cross.
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  • Finding dollars in your herd’s somatic cell count

    Monday, October 15, 2018 9:44 AM
        Historically, mastitis experts have believed that milk production decreases in a linear fashion as the linear score of the somatic cell count of a cow increases.
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  • Pinkeye

    Monday, September 10, 2018 9:36 AM
        Pinkeye, or infectious bovine keratitis, rears its ugly head every summer.
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  • The slow fan

    Monday, August 13, 2018 9:46 AM
        While I was waiting for cows to return to a pen today, a fellow came into the pen with a belt and a ladder.
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