Two studies were conducted to produce multiple births in beef females and determine growth performance to 90 days of age of early weaned and artificially reared calves. The effects of early weaning on postpartum reproductive activity of dams producing single or multiple births were also determined. The studies involved 52 nulliparous heifers treated with 6.2 mg FSH and 55 lactating 2-year-old d...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of weaning 60d early and the choice of calf supplement on calf performance and economic return. Additionally, cow body weight (BW), body condition score (BCS), and economic outcome of weaning 60 d early was evaluated. Forty 2-yr old cows and calves were divided into 3 groups; early-weaned and supplemented with Southern States Jump Start fee...

The correlation between maternal serum antibodies in beef calves at 2 days old and protection against diarrhea induced by natural bovine rotavirus (BRV) infection was examined. Virus neutralizing (VN) antibody titers against BRV in sera from calves that developed diarrhea by BRV infection within 14 days of age (BRV-diarrheal calves) were significantly lower than those from calves that had no di...

Growth-promoting implants offer beef cattle producers a safe and effective way to increase calf weight gains. Implants increase production of muscle tissue and often reduce body fat production. This results in significant improvements in both growth rate and feed efficiency. Despite the proven benefits of implant use, only 11.9 percent of beef cattle operations surveyed by the National Animal H...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of transportation stress on serum concentrations of oxidative stress biomarkers of calves. ANIMALS 105 crossbred beef steer calves (mean [+/-SD] body weight, 207 +/- 21.2 kg). PROCEDURE Calves were assembled at 1 location in Tennessee, and pretransit (day -3) blood samples were collected. Calves were allotted randomly by body weight into 2 groups. Calves we...

There is limited information on the value of antibiotic therapy for mastitis in beef cows. Effects of antibiotic treatment at weaning and the subsequent calving on calf weaning weight, milk somatic cell counts, milk components, and intramammary infection were studied in beef cows. Additionally, effects of number of infected mammary quarters, number of dry mammary quarters, type of intramammary ...

from Operation-management factors associated with early-postnatal mortality of US foals, Losinger WC, Traub-Dargatz JL, Sampath RK, Morley PS, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 47 (2000) 157-175, November 2000. Persistent BVD infection in US beef herds In 1996, testing for BVD persistent infection was carried out on 18,931 spring born calves in 128 beef herds. Of these herds, 76 were randomly sel...

Right heart failure secondary to pulmonary hypertension is a leading cause of mortality among suckling beef calves in the Rocky Mountain region. The objective of this study was to track changes in pulmonary arterial pressures (PAP) in healthy calves born and raised at altitudes ranging from 1,470 to 2,730 m. It was hypothesized that calves located at higher altitudes would show a greater increa...

Efficiency in animal protein production can be defined in different ways, for example the amount of human-digestible essential amino acids (HDEAA) in the feed ration relative to the amount of HDEAA in the animal products. Cattle production systems are characterised by great diversity and a wide variety of feeds and feed ration compositions, due to ruminants' ability to digest fibrous materials ...

The objective was to retrospectively measure seasonal sunlight-associated variation in serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) in beef cattle. The concentration of 25OHD was measured in crossbred animals born from March to May in 2011 and 2012. Vitamin D status 2 to 3 mo after birth (period 1) was only available for 2012 calves and was measured in June 2012. Period 1 animals had ser...