Livestock Health & Disease

How to understand the relationship between body condition score and re-breeding efficiency in beef cows and what the different body condition scores look like.

An explanation of why researchers feel certain that spider syndrome is caused by a simple, autosomal, recessive gene.

An understanding on the causes of foot rot, treatment and prevention methods in the sheep industry.

A template of body condition score in horses, how to accurately assess it and how to evaluate the animals’ health based on the body condition score.

How to distinguish killed and modified-live vaccines and the role they play in a schedule of when each should be given to cattle for maximum herd performance.

While fescue has some good qualities, it has significant and important shortcomings for use by horses related to ingestion infected with an endophyte.

A guide to acquaint livestock producers with some basic facts about diseases, how their spread and ways to minimize losses.

An explanation of the viral arteritis disease, what the symptoms are, how it spreads and how to control the disease.