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Take bull health by the horns
Livestock

Take bull health by the horns

A proactive approach can ensure a successful breeding season for your herd

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Herd bulls can be forgotten at times but attention turns to them just before the breeding season. Bulls can be hard to handle, but there are good facilities for examining and treating them. Bulls should be vaccinated for most things you give to cows, with the exception of scours vaccines. Deworming and lice control should […] Read more
Tiffany Wood, a Scottish physicist is CEO of Dyneval, a company with new semen analyzing technology. Photo: John Greig
Livestock

At Ag in Motion: New tester monitors bull fertility

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Glacier FarmMedia – Slow-swimming bull sperm will have no place to hide. A Scottish company, Dyneval, has created a new semen analyzer that measures a wider range of concentrations of semen than previous testing methods. This will allow veterinarians, beef and dairy producers to have more control over semen quality. The Dynescanl analyzer is also […] Read more
Studies show that the way bull calves are raised contributes to nasty behaviour as they mature.
Dairy, Livestock

Bottle-fed bulls can grow up to be mean

Hand-rearing dairy bull calves in isolation contributes significantly to their behaviour toward humans as adults

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Glacier FarmMedia – Livestock producers inadvertently put themselves and others in harm’s way by failing to realize the dangers of bottle-fed bull calves when those calves grow into behemoths. Dr. Joe Stookey, professor emeritus at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon, said he has seen the dangers many times in the past. Why […] Read more

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