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Calves are especially vulnerable during their first year. Health concerns include scours, respiratory problems, parasites,
and clostridial disease. What you do at weaning makes a difference all the way to
processing. Getting calves through weaning healthy and unstressed
increases their value at sale time.
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- Dip navels with strong iodine
- Give vitamins A,D,E and selemium injections (also to dams, if recommended by your veterinarian)
- ID tag
- Dehorn if recommened by your veterinarian
- Castrate bull calves
- Make sure calves are able to nurse
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- Treat for internal and external parasites with a broad-spectrum endectocide
- Vaccinate: IBR, BVD, PI3, BRSV
- Vaccinate: Manheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida-bacterin-toxoid, and 7-way
clostridial
- Castrate and dehorn, if not done at birth
- Implant steer calves and heifers not meant for replacing
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| Pre-Weaning |
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- Treat for internal and external parasites with a broad-spectrum endectocide
- Vaccinate: IBR, BVD, PI3, BRSV
- Vaccinate: Manheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, bacterin-toxoid, and 7-way clostridial, Haemophilus somnus
- Creep feed (expose calves to feed with coccidiostat in creep feeders) until weaning
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- Treat for internal and external parasites with a broad-spectrum endectocide
- Vaccinate: IBR, BVD, PI3, BRSV
- Vaccinate: Manheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida, bacterin-toxoid, and 7-way clostridial, H. somnus
- Weaned for at least 45 days before selling
- Begin feeding with coccidiostat from feedbunk
- Begin watering from tank
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Ron Eischeid
Cow/Calf Producer
Elgin, Nebraska
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Ron Eischeid, who farms and ranches with his brother, Bill, says his 165
SUREHEALTH-certified calves are healthier and more productive – and he
was paid for it.
"The result is heavier weaning weights, better appetites, excellent overall
condition – and our calves have clean noses when they go into the feedlot,"
Eischeid says. "When the first group of SUREHEALTH calves went through the
sale barn, we expected a premium. They averaged $2 to $3 more per cwt. than the
day’s average price. Seeing those results and recapturing our cost has sold us on
using the SUREHEALTH program."
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