On-Campus Intern Program in Dairy Cattle Management

Therapeutic management of botulism in dairy cattle

AIM To report the successful recovery of few dairy cattle from botulism in response to a modified therapeutic strategy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy four naturally-occurring clinical cases of bovine botulism encountered during the period of 2012-2014 which were confirmed by mouse lethality test became material for this study. Affected animals were made into three groups based on the treatmen...

Dairy Cattle Mortality Management via Anaerobic Digestion

With the decline in the number of rendering operations due to industry consolidation and concern about Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) transmission, disposal of dairy and beef cattle mortalities by rendering either is not an option or is prohibitively expensive in many areas of the United States. On-site burial remains an alternative in many states, but impact on ground water quality is ...

Dairy Cattle-selection, Feeding and Management

ORGANIC ANALYTICAL REAGENTS By JOHN H. YOE, Professor of Chemistry, University of Virginia, and LANDON A. BARVER, Director of Research, American Viscose Corporation. A comprehensive treatise on organic analytical reagents. It represents probably the first attempt to collect in one volume the data hitherto scattered throughout the literature. A glossary of reagents is included, and a bibliograph...

Clinical Management of Babesiosis in Crossbred Dairy Cattle

Four months back calved crossbred dairy cow had history of coffee coloured urine. Blood smear and Blood samples of this cow were collected on the day of acute stage of infection and then 15th day of post treatment for haematological parameters. Based on the clinical pathonomonic symptom (coffee coloured urine) and blood smear examination presence of Babesia bigemina organisms the disease was di...

Neosporosis in dairy cattle.