Rotavirus, coronavirus or Cryptosporidium cause 95% of infectious calf scours cases in calves under three weeks of age, according to Armstrong. These three agents can also be present in combination.

The drugs don’t work, they just make you worse”. The Verve song was stuck in my head as I drove away from a farmyard recently ...

Preventing scours (diarrhea or dysentery) in calves is a challenge for cow-calf producers. Adequate colostrum intake is the best protection for the newborn calf. The mother cow’s colostrum is… ...

If you find calves that show signs of pneumonia such as rapid breathing, laying down and being reluctant to rise, and having ...

Calf scours results in sickness, poor performance, medical expenses and death. Scours is a complex disease with many inter-related causes. Agent, ...

Neonatal calf diarrhea, or scours, is a common concern among cow-calf producers. Understanding why scours occurs is the first step in preventing the problem. Calf scours outbreaks are the result ...

In this ABP Monitor Farm update, ABP Farm liaison officer Aideen Bates travelled to Bandon, Co. Cork for a mid-summer update.

Anyone who has experienced a gastrointestinal virus knows the key to getting back to good health is to keep drinking fluids. That is true for beef cattle as well, say the experts at the Kansas ...

Nearly 2,500 calves are reared on Dairy Beef 500 farms annually as part of Teagasc ... he’s alert when you walk into a pen, and no visible signs of any illness or ailment, such as scour ...