Keeping your animals’ digestive system healthy is key to their overall health and performance and your profitability. Excellent health comes when good nutrition and health programs work cooperatively, and that is why it is essential to keep animals’ digestive systems healthy as they enter the feedlot. Entering a feedlot is a stressful time, and many […]
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Wheat Pasture Readiness: Best Practices for Grazing for Maximum Performance
Cattle producers across the Great Plains and throughout the country often rely on wheat pasture to graze their cattle in late fall and through the winter. However, with less than ideal planting conditions in many regions this year, wheat is getting planted later than usual, which will impact the amount of forage available to cattle, […]
Health Considerations When Commingling Stocker Cattle
Freshly weaned calves are already fighting a compromised immune system. Combine that with shipping them on a semi for several hours and commingling them with other groups of calves you’ve purchased elsewhere, and their health system is compromised even further. However, you can implement these best management practices to make sure your stocker calves stay […]
How to Achieve Gain on Declining Forage Quality
Grasses decrease in quality as they mature and the grazing season progresses. When the hottest days of summer arrive, cool-season grasses go into a dormant stage, and their quality declines tremendously. Forage availability is usually sufficient, but the nutritional value of the mature cool season grasses is lower. Warm season grasses will produce between 65 […]
Health Tips for Calves This Fall
Experience tells us that fall can be a treacherous season for keeping calves healthy. Calves come into the season stout, thrifty and with the expectation of doing well. But changing weather conditions, management systems and nutritional programs can catch the calves off guard and send them into a tail spin of poor health and performance. Planning and implementing a complete program […]
Considerations for Buying Feeder Calves
Health. Source. Genetics. Size. Condition. All of these are factors that cattle buyers should take into account when buying their next load of calves to background on grass or put into a feedlot. A healthy calf is going to eat and grow more efficiently so health is of the utmost importance. Be sure to know […]
Gain Smart Mineral: Which One Should You Use?
Pounds of gain equal pounds of product, and pounds of product equal dollars in the bank. BioZyme® Inc., understands that those in the beef industry are always looking for ways to increase efficiency, and with that in mind, offer the Gain Smart™ mineral line for stockers and backgrounders. There are three mineral options: Gain Smart […]
Backgrounding Calves with Gain Smart Pays
Keeping cattle healthy and gaining are priorities for cattle producers; but when you can keep them healthy and gaining while saving some money at the same time, that is something everyone can get excited about. CV Ledbetter & Son is a diversified cattle operation located at Okmulgee, Okla. The cow-calf segment includes a Hereford and […]
Timely Internal Parasite Control Needed for Positive Summer Gains
by Dana Zook, Oklahoma State University NW Area Livestock Specialist, With early spring growth comes new infestations of internal parasites in beef herds. The practice of deworming cattle for internal parasite control has been a best management practice many years, however, this concealed enemy is easily overlooked. Strategic deworming starts with the understanding of the parasite life cycle. […]
Tips for Bloat Prevention when Grazing Wheat Pasture
For many cattle producers in the Plains states, putting stockers out on wheat pasture in the spring makes perfect sense. The pasture is an available, palatable forage source that is high in protein, energy and minerals. However, too much of a good thing can be harmful, and that includes grazing your calves on wheat pasture, […]
