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  • Subject: [Homestead] Tvo post- Everything (well, almost) in beef calf, cow care and management, Mar 99
  • Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:02:11 -0800

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First & Best: General First and Bests
<http://www.usask.ca/pubrel/fb/general/>
http://www.umaine.edu/livestock/Publications/electrolytes.htm (give
full feeding of milk plus electrolytes
to calf with scours)
http://agri.gov.ns.ca/pt/lives/news95/alive.htm#treat (no oral
antibiotics, intravenous is better)
http://ianrwww.unl.edu/pubs/animaldisease/g269.htm#TREATMENT (three
formulas, says withhold milk--probably wrong)
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/animaldisease/g269.htm (Oral vaccines, rota
and corona virus, E Coli)
http://smallfarms.orst.edu/cattle.htm (Oregon Small Farms on scours and
other topics inc. Temple Grandin)
http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/livestock/dairy/facts/92-162.htm
(drying off, milk fever prevention)
http://www.vetnet.ucdavis.edu/vetext/INF-BE_cca9501.html (causes, drugs
that help, drugs that harm)
http://www.hitechdeterg.co.nz/animal_health/scour_prevention_and_treatment.htm
(preventing stress scours)
http://www.erinet.com/carl/calf.html (A*Lot*Angus---calves and many
other topics, links)
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~ans/dairy/mgmt.html (protocols, pulling
calves, vaccination, mastitis, milk fever etc.)
http://www.ccp.com/~angus/journal/98_02feb/scours.htm (more
preventives, careful with sulfa!)
http://www.cattlepages.com/wwwboard/beginners/messages/2011.html (birth
weight calculation---or get free tape from Purina and other feed
sources)
http://www.cattlepages.com/wwwboard/beginners/index.asp
(Cattlepages---good place to ask questions, see answers)
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/agnic/expbcow.html (great Iowa State topic
index!!)
http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/agdex/400/20021002.html (fall calving,
calves, creep rations for various kinds of hay)
http://www.forages.css.orst.edu/Topics/Pastures/Species/Grasses/Cautions.html
(Grass tetany--check elsewhere for ketosis and nitrate poisoning on
grass)
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/ndd/health/CONTROLLING_INFECTIOUS_DISEASES_OF_THE_DAIRY_CALF.html
(its long, but read it! Your homemade electrolytes aren't as good as
commercial varieties---sorry about that. Making your own may save on
electrolyte, but a dead calf will buy a lot of electrolyte. Don't see
it mentioned, but I think adding soluble kelp is a good thing---get it
from "Natural Solutions", New Castle, VA---use your browser, they're on
the Web somewhere.
http://cru1.cahe.wsu.edu/sanjuan/scripts/webFindWords.asp (Washington
State San Juan County publication list---very long)
http://ext.msstate.edu/pubs/pub2023.htm (Mississippi State data on beef
cattle management, all aspects)
http://www.vetmed.vt.edu/College/ColNewsletters/HoofPrints/Vol2_1/CALF.html
(Virginia State says separate milk and electrolyte feedings, don't mix
them)
http://www.intercom.net/user/sschoen/metabol.html (Maryland Small
Ruminant Page)
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/beefchek.html (Appropriate Technology
Transfer For Rural Areas) (Sustainable Beef Checksheet for farm
operations---very good)
http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/vetext/INF-BE.html ( University of
California, Davis VETMED factsheet--inc. scours, pine needle abortion,
pinkeye, trace minerals etc.)
http://www.americanprotein.com/calf/calfnotes/APCCN43.htm (electrolyte,
glycine for sodium transport---note not sugar)
http://www.ranchvision.com/manual/chap6nf.htm (Ranch Vision management
software)
http://www.angus.org/journal/98_02feb/scours.htm (Angus Journal---don't
mix antibiotics, watch sulfa)
http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/livestock/beef/mng01.html (last trimester a
critical time)
http://www.nalusda.gov/ttic/tektran/data/000006/54/0000065487.html
(prevent milk fever so you don't have to try to arrest it---you don't
have a lot of time)
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/ndd/youngsto/CALVES_NEED_MORE_FEED_IN_WINTER.html
(Keeping milkfed or newly weaned calves alive in cold weather)
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/ndd/health/EFFECT_OF_ERGOT_TOXINS_ON_CATTLE.html
(ergot toxins in grasses and their effect)
http://www.agric.gov.ab.ca/agdex/400/20066201.html (disease control
calendar for a beef herd)




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