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Calf Management Newsletter

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2020 Apr/May - Making Your Calf Care Team More Robust

2020 March Out-of-Balance - Sick Calf

2020 February Newborn Calf Immunity

Calves and Bicycle Wheels #6 Sanitation

Calves and Bicycle Wheels #5 Vaccination

Calves and Bicycle Wheels #3 Bedding

Calves and Bicycle Wheels #4 Air Quality

Calves and Bicycle Wheels #2 Calories

Calves and Bicycle Wheels #1 Colostrum

2020 January Feed for More Than Maintenance

2019 December Calf Starter Grain Intake: Managed or Neglected?

2019 November The When for Oral Electrolytes

October 2019 Getting Better Calf Starter Intake

2019 September Sooner is better for colostrum feeding:; But, How much better?

2019 August Biosecurity for Calves

2019 July Water

2019 June Improving Treatment Success for Sick Calves

2019 May Rebuild of Calfnotes.com

2019 April Mixing Milk Replacer

2019 March "Hard Calving: Impact on Calves"

2019 February Calf Health: The Futile Search for the Silver Bullet

2019 January What to do about Scours

2018 December Tips for Keeping Your Milk Replacer Clean

2018 November "Luminometer: Using One to Improve Sanitation for Calves"

2018 October "Is 'Waste Milk' Good for Calves?"

2018 September "Testing Colostrum for IgG's"

2018 August "Quality Calf Care Depends on Quality Communication Among Calf Care Workers"

2018 July Colostrum: Yet another Update

2018 June Feeding Hay with Calf Starter Grain

2018 May Feeding Water to Calves

2018 April Late Winter-Spring Scours in Calves

2018 March Cross Sucking Revisited: Issues and Tips

2018 February Consistency Matters

2018 January Feeding Space for Heifers

2017 December Bottle Feeding Colostrum

2017 November Don't Fall Behind with Coccidiosis

2017 October Caring for Calves Can Be Painful

2017 September Guidelines for Storing Colostrum

2017 August Take Time to Care for the Dystocia Calf

2017 July Test, Don't Guess: Monitoring Bacteria Counts in

2017 June Hay for Preweaned Calves

2017 May Improving Weaning Results: Keeping Weaned Calves Growing and Healthy

2017 April Avoiding Passive Transfer Failure

2017 March Fly Control in March?

2017 February Diagnosis: Salmonella dublin. What do we do next?

2017 January What level of contamination is "normal" for colostrum

2016 December Colostrum Bacteria Control

2016 November - Preventing Scours and Pneumonia vs. Treating Sick Calves

2016 October - Fall Weather and Newborn Calves: Part 2

2016 September - Fall Weather and Newborn Calves: Part 1

2016 August - NewCalf Management Resources 2016

2016 July - Managing Protocol Drift

2016 June - Preventing Navel Infections

2016 May - Do I Need a Vaccination Protocol?

2016 April - Extended Weaning for Intensively Milk Fed Calves

2016 March - Too Many Sick Calves? Consider the piBVD calf!

2016 February Cleaning and Disinfecting

2016 January - Cold Newborn Calf Care

2015 December Mixing Milk Replacer: Are You Using Best Management Practices?

2015 November Are Your Weaned Calves Rumen Ready?

2015 October Do Your Calves Have a Cushion?

2015 September Cold Weather = Poor Calf Care?

2015 September Cold Weather = Poor Calf Care?

2015 August Bottle Feeding: Do It Right!

2015 July Choose the Correct Colostrum Feeding Method to Maximize Antibody Absorption

2015 June Thirty Minutes to Feed or Chill Colostrum

2015 May Feeding Pasteurized Milk: Tips for Success

2015 April Calibrating - The Key to Consistency

2015 March Where's the Hot Water?

2015 February Getting Equipment Clean Under Cold Conditions

2015 January Vaccinating During Cold Weather

2014 December Will 3X Milk Feeding Make a Difference?

2014 November Harvest the Benefits of Bio-Security Measures for Calf Facilities

2014 October Feeding Colostrum: Do It Right!

2014 September Calves: When is a Draft Not a Draft?

2014 August Encouraging Rumen Development Among Preweaned Calves

2014 July Putting the Brakes on Bacteria Growth in Colostrum

2014 June Planning for Success: We Can Feed More without Scours

2014 May Hot Weather and Calves

2014 April Spring Slip-ups in Calf Care

2014 March Buying and Using Household Bleach

2014 February Try Sleeping on Concrete!

2014 January Wash Water Always Above 120 F.

2013 December The Calf Kitchen

2013 November Practical Ways to Chill Colostrum

2013 October To Wash or Not To Wash

2013 September Cross-Sucking: Issues and Tips

2013 August Coccidia: Our friend just keeps giving!

2013 July Managing Heat in Hutch Housing

2013 June Managing Risk the First Week after Weaning

2013 May Less Mortality in the First 24 Hours

2013 April Persistent Breaks with Coccidiosis

2013 March Fixing Passive Transfer Failure

2013 February Salmonella is Always a Challenge

2013 January High Coliform Counts in Colostrum: What to do next.

2012 December Weaning with Less Stress

2012 November When to Test for Immunity

2012 October Gain Weight the First Week of Life?

2012 September Coccidiosis: Our Constant Companion

2012 August How Much Milk Will Calves Drink?

2012 June "A Stitch in Time Saves Nine" Protocol Drift

2012 May How To Save a Penny and Lose a Dollar

2012 April Why Do Bad Things (Sick, Dead Calves) Happen to Good People (Us)?

2012 March Group Housing: Doing It Right This Time

2012 February Surges in Calving: Responding positively rather than "muddling through"

2012 January Special Care for theDystocia Calf

2011 December Navel Dipping: Advantages and Alternatives

2011 November Colostrum Testing and Feeding (updated 2/17/2017)

2011 October Needed: Good Air (Part 2: Managing Housing)

2011 September Needed: Good Air (Part 1: Goals and Measurement)

2011 August - Colostrum: Quantity and Quality

2011 July Disinfecting to Improve Calf Health: Part 2 (updated 2/17/2017)

2011 June Does Water Make a Difference?

2011 May Disinfecting to Improve Calf Health: Part 1 (updated 02/17/2017)

2011 April Zero Tolerance for Antibiotic Residues

2011 March Treating Too Many Calves for Scours

2011 February Bedding Calves for Cold Weather

2011 January Cold Stressed Calves (Hypothermia)

2010 December How Good is My Calf Rearing Program? (Rev. 2/17/2017)

2010 November Good Air = Good Health

2010 October How Much Grain Should our Weaned Calves Eat?

2010 September Quality Care at Harvest Time

2010 August Quality Care Every Day (Substitute worker management)

2010 July Refrigerator or Storage Cabinet

2010 June Solving Water Feeding Problems

2010 May Improving our Handling of Colostrum

2010 April Weaning Calves

2010 March Drying Off a Calf

2010 February Doing the Job the Way it Shoud be Done

2010 January Feeding More Milk without Scours

2009 December Antibioticin Milk Replacers: Changes Coming Soon

2009 November Using a Tube Feeder: Yes or No?

2009 October Early Detection of Sick Preweaned Calves

2009 September How do You Respond to a Health Crisis?

2009 August Testing for Passive Transfer of Immunity

2009 July Avoid These Cleaning Errors

2009 June Hay: Limited or Free-Choice?

2009 May Calves Not Eating Grain

2009 April Is Cleaning Possible?

2009 March Lying Behavior of Calves

2009 February Calving Management

2009 January Mixing Milk Replacer

2008 December Feeding Transition Milk and Colostrum

2008 November Using Bleach Effectively

2008 October Monitoring for Profitability

2008 September Know the Facts About Your Calves

2008 August Expecting the Unexpected

2008 July Tips for Hot Weather Management

2008 June Colostrum Chilling

2008 May Too Many Sick Calves

2008 April How Do You Feed Colostrum?

2008 March Applied Immunology: Keeping Animals Healthy

2008 February Measure It or Lose Control

2008 January Getting More Antibodies into Calves

2007 December Colostrum Bacteria Control

2007 November At What Price Overcrowding?

2007 October Feeding for Success

2007 September Feed More as the Weather Gets Colder, Or, Seasonally Adjusted Nutrient Intake

2007 August Once-A-Day Feeding: Yes or No?

2007 July Shelf Life of Stored Colostrum

2007 June Loopholes that Make Calves Sick

2007 May Earlier Weaning: Yes or No?

2007 April Timeliness of Treating Pneumonia

2007 March Variation in Body Temperature

2007 February The Pneumonia Calf

2007 January Surges in Sours Cases

2006 December Basics of Feeding More in Cold Weather

2006 November Cold Weather Bedding

2006 October Feed Water

2006 September Feeding Immunoglobulins

2006 August Cleaning Milk Equipment, Yet Again

2006 July Dehydration

2006 June Dystocia Calf Care

2006 May Clean Colostrum: Letting Biology Work For You

2006 April Too Many Stresses

2006 March Holes in Biosecurity

2006 February Feeding Refrigerated Colostrum

2006 January Dehorning Calves

2005 December IDairy.org

2005 NOvember Calf Care and Pain

2005 October Colostrum and First Week Growth

2005 September Should You Measure It?

2005 July Assumacy

2005 August Colostrum Composition and Stage of Milk Out

2005 June Calves and Water

2005 May Dehydration in Milk-fed Calves

2005 April Ammonia is Bad for Calves

2005 March Introducing Forage to Transition Calves

2005 February Managing for High Quality Colostrum

2005 January How Much is Enough? Setting Goals

1999 May Blood Serum Total Protein