Reducing stress on cattle should take pressure off the treatments for respiratory disease. Less stress results in less shrink, so cattle performance may improve, but it also reduces morbidity and mortality due to disease. Cattle will do better if we can calm them down at the stressful times of their lives, such as weaning, showing […] Read more
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Handling tied to cattle health
Low-stress handling called an important tool that producers can use to improve their cattle’s health
Lee Sinclair’s interest in low-stress cattle handling emerged during a summer job at a feedlot and carried through to his career with Merck Animal Health. “Nobody had ever told me position, distance and angles make the difference. All we were taught is, ‘we’ve got to get this done’,” Sinclair said of his initial experience working […] Read more
Top to bottom crisis among rural vets
CALGARY — With the University of Calgary’s veterinary school soon to be educating more than three times as many students as it began with in 2008, one might assume the veterinarian drought will soon be over. That won’t even keep rural vet numbers flat, let along fill the growing gaps that are leaving livestock and […] Read more
