Healthy Cattle
What are signs of illness?
To separate a calf from its mother or stop feeding it milk.
What is weaning?
As much as 12 inches will remain until it dries up and falls off.
What is the umbilical cord?
Father of a calf.
The amount of gain divided by the number of days in the feeding period. +3 lbs/day in a feedlot is common.
What is average daily gain?
Fluid containing killed or modified live germs, injected into the body to simulate production of antibodies and immunity.
What is a vaccine?
Putting calves in separate but adjacent corrals for several days.
What is fence line weaning?
Antibodies in colostrum to help the calf during the critical first hours with a weak immune system.
What is passive immunity?
Beef raised without hormones, antibiotics or pesticides and fed organic feeds.
What is organic beef?
The stress free handling and care of domesticated animals.
What is husbandry?
A type of injection is placed under the skin, between the skin and muscle.
What is a subcutaneously (SQ) injection?
The three phrases of feeding management of beef cattle.
What is rearing, growing, and finishing?
Strong rubber rings that are like tiny donuts, slightly larger than cheerios, used in calf castration.
What are elastrator rings?
To mature and fatten cattle enough to butcher; to reach butchering condition.
What is to finish?
Area where the sick cattle are placed.
What is a hospital pen?
Infection in the lungs where cattle will have trouble pushing air out.
What is pneumonia?
A hormone that is produced by the adrenal gland that provides short-term benefits by changing the body's metabolism to help it function better under stress.
What is cortisol?
Decision to put another calf on a cow that has lost her own calf.
What is grafting a calf?
Beef raised without hormones, antibiotics or pesticides.
What is natural beef?
A health management tool to determine pulls in a feedlot.
What is DART?
Blackleg, black disease, tetanus, redwater, enterotoxemia.
What are clostridial diseases?
The most essential nutrient for cattle.
What is water?
The most common gut infection in calves.
What is scours?
Weight loss due to defecation and urination.
What is shrink?
The pounds of feed necessary to increase the body weight of the animal by one pound.
What is feed efficiency?