Dairy Newsletters
Dr Katie Joins our practice Dr. Katie Buatois graduated from Purdue College of Veterinary Medicine this past May. She was part of the early admission program and President of the Student AVMA. She earned a Master's of Public Health from the University of Minnesota at the same time. Dr Katie was also President of the One Health Club, a member of the Curriculum Committee, the Food Animal Club, Exotic Animal Club and Dairy Challenge, where she was the first place finisher.
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Every fall we can look at our preg rate chart and see who has abolished summer and who has let it takes its toll. Production lags into the fall, increased lameness, and cull rates tell us heat stress has costs. We are told with epigenetics, the effects on calves in utero during heat stress decrease performance for generations.
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We have done most of the communication on this disease by email because it is a continually developing story. The disease is real. Cows are not dying of it. Several studies have shown milk safe to drink if commercially pasteurized. Drinking raw milk now is not advised. The virus fragments found in pasteurized milk are just that, dead fragments as we would expect.
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Temperatures will get into the 70's consistently in the next month. This activates fly larvae and now is the time to control them. Every fly killed in April reduces the fly population in August by 10,000! Our partial list of fly control products is included.
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Knoxville TN hosted this conference that was created several years ago. Recent grads have different needs than established practitioners and recent grads rarely get to go to the main conference as senior practitioners often take those spots. The Recent Grad conference provides training in basic skills that may not have been well covered in school or make more sense once in practice. There is also a large focus on the challenges of practice life and how to adapt. Much of this centers on the thought that sure, this is tough, but so are you. You can do it.
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Dr. Andy presented in Dallas a Case Study of bacterial culture results in a large dairy. He outlined interventions and how effective they have been at reducing infectious mastitis.
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We are having our next peer group meetings at noon at Speedway Lanes 455 N Herman St. New Bremen, OH. January 25, Dr. Greg Habing discusses what they have learned at OSU about Salmonella dublin, February 22, Tom Smith will present the product Ferrapease that we have used as a calming agent and March 28, Dr Kelly Mitchell, of Elanco will present on their new products that mitigate methane emissions.
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More About Transdermal Banamine (Flunixin) Non-Steriodal Anti-inflammatories block the immune mediary compounds which cattle produce in over abundance. This over abundance causes increased inflammation to causing issues especially with respiratory.
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Banamine Transdermal Approved for Dairy We have been using Banamine Transdermal for a few years. It has primarily been used for respiratory and injuries in calves, heifers, and beef cattle.
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VOR, Cetiofur, and Flunixin Forms Most dairies have filled out the annual forms, but if you have not the yellow or blue forms are included with your statement. If you have any questions, please talk with one of the doctors or call the office.
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