– Adam Hartfiel and Sandra Stuttgen, University of Wisconsin-Maison Extension
Carefully manage the health risk to new arriving calves.
Bringing new calves to the feedlot is stressful for them due to transportation, adjusting to a new home, changing feed, exposure to disease, and establishing social order with new cattle. Minimizing both clinical and subclinical disease in feedlots is essential for producers to improve profitability. Biosecurity practices producers implement can help reduce the risk of disease outbreak and spread within their operation.
Get newly arrived cattle off to a healthy start
Maintaining the immunity of the newly arrived cattle involves many health and nutrition management practices. Here are some tips on how to build immunity to diseases within . . .
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