Bos taurus, or domestic cattle, are large, even-toed, horned ruminants. They are commonly raised for meat (beef cattle) or dairy (dairy cattle). Key facts include that cattle have a body temperature of 100-102.5°F, heart rate of 40-80 bpm, and respiration rate of 10-30 breaths per minute. Their average lifespan is 20 years. Common health concerns for cattle include bloat, bovine virus diarrhea, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, mastitis, milk fever, hardware disease, brucellosis, pinkeye, and Johne's disease.
Calf bloat /abomasal tympany by Dr.AmandeepAmen Deep
since rumen is not functional in calves. when calves take excess of milk or milk replacers, they get abomasal bloat.
ruminal bloat is rare in calves but only occur when there is excess intake of milk or milk replacers in newly developed rumen... HOPE,, this ppt will help
Presentation given at the 2011 Lambing & Kidding School in Wye Mills, MD, by Susan Schoenian, University of Maryland Extension Sheep & Goat Specialist.
10 Dangerous Pregnancy Problems In Horses... What they are, how to identify them and what to do if the unthinkable happens. Your girl and her baby are counting on you. Don't let them down.
Calf bloat /abomasal tympany by Dr.AmandeepAmen Deep
since rumen is not functional in calves. when calves take excess of milk or milk replacers, they get abomasal bloat.
ruminal bloat is rare in calves but only occur when there is excess intake of milk or milk replacers in newly developed rumen... HOPE,, this ppt will help
Presentation given at the 2011 Lambing & Kidding School in Wye Mills, MD, by Susan Schoenian, University of Maryland Extension Sheep & Goat Specialist.
10 Dangerous Pregnancy Problems In Horses... What they are, how to identify them and what to do if the unthinkable happens. Your girl and her baby are counting on you. Don't let them down.
Tandem Repeats and Satellite DNA in Bovideae - Colloquium on Animal CytogeneticsPat (JS) Heslop-Harrison
Tandemly repeated satellite DNA in the Artiodactyla - a lecture
Tandemly repeated, satellite, DNA sequences are an abundant component of the genome of most species, including the Artiodactyla. Multiple DNA familes are present, each in long tandem arrays, with members of each family present on one or more chromosomes at characteristic positions. In particular, several familes are located at the centromeres of most chromosomes, including acrocentrics, metacentrics and the sex chromosomes. Individual arrays are made up of variants of particular sequence motifs, which may be longer than 1,500 bp. In this presentation, we will discuss aspects of the evolution of repetitive sequences within and between chromosomes, with comparative data between different species. With pig, we will show details of the localization of tandem repeats at meiosis, and how these sequences relate to sequence amplification and loss, as well as the epigenetic behaviour of the resulting heterochromatin. In the Bovinae, we will show how molecular cytogenetic methods are essential to build up a full picture of the behaviour and distribution of satellite DNA where current sequencing methods are unable to assemble the sequences blocks accurately.
P. Heslop-Harrison1, T. Schwarzacher1 and R. Chaves2 (Phh4@le.ac.uk)
University of Leicester, Biology, Leicester LE1 7RH UK; 2Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centre of Genomics and Biotechnology, University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal
This presentation covers five topics: hoof health, feed costs, birthing percentage, orphan lambs/kids, and parasite control. It was given to the New River Valley Sheep & Goat Club on 2/20/16.
This presentation was given at the Delmarva Small Ruminant Conference All Worms All Day on December 8, 2018, in Keedysville, Maryland. The presenter was Susan Schoenian.
2. General Information
• Bovine
• Male = bull
• Female = cow
• Castrated male = steer
• Newborn = calf
• Young female = heifer
3. Statistics
• Body temperature 100 – 102.5
• Heart rate 40-80 bpm
• Respiration 10-30 breaths per min
• Life span 20 years
• IV Injection sites – Jugular or tail vein
• IM Gluteal, semitendinous or triceps
• SQ small amounts in neck area
4. Anatomy
• Ruminant • Dental pad
four divisions of • Horned or polled
stomach: Rumen,
reticulum, omasum,
abomasum
• Even toed ungulate
5. Breeding
• Polyestrus
• Gestation 285 days
• AI common
• Puberty 7-9 months
• Act of giving birth: calving or
freshening
6. Restraint
• Two ends to every cow: The butting,
trample you in the manure and mud end and
the kick, smash you into the wall and swat
your face with the tail end!
7. • There is a big difference between handling
dairy and beef cattle.
• Chute Bull staff
• Nose lead Tail hold
• Bull ring Squeeze Rope
8. Health Concerns
• Bloat – overeating - immediate treatment
or death occurs.
• BVD – Bovine virus diarrhea. Common,
not usually severe, but chronic. Vaccine
available
9. • IBR – Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis.
Fever, coughing nasal discharge. Hardest
on calves. Vaccine available.
• Mastitis – Most prevalent problem of dairy
cattle. Symptoms: abnormal milk; hot,
swollen, painful udder; fever; anorexia;
decreased milk flow; dehydration
10. • Milk Fever: Caused by decreased blood
calcium ratio. Usually seen shortly after
giving birth. Symptoms – ascending
paralysis. An emergency.
• Hardware disease: Swallowing metal
objects. Metal stays in reticulum.
Prevention is key!
11. • Brucellosis: Bacterial. Only sign is
abortion during last 3 months of gestation.
Public health hazard. Vaccine available.
• Pinkeye: Summer months, spread by flies.
Symptoms – watery, bloodshot eye.
• Johne’s Disease: (Paratuberculosis)
Bacterial. Symptoms, recurrent diarrhea
