In cow calf production, lameness is second only to reproduction for culling criteria. It impacts all levels of the production cycle, and in the long term, it can become an animal welfare issue.

There is also no question that more cattle could do with a preventive foot trim. Pregnancy checking time is a good opportunity to assess the feet and collect a small pen of those animals that would ...

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With temperatures expected to stay well below freezing for several straight days, it is important to make sure your cattle are prepared to make it through the bitterly cold conditions. Cattle work to ...

BARRETOS, Brazil—In the dead of night at a slaughterhouse in Brazil’s southeastern farming belt, a group of men splattered in blood gathered around the entrails of a cow to see if they had hit ...

A good hoof care regime is important for the health of your herd ... especially after calving. Keep freshly calved cows near for up to 48 hours to allow pedal bone to settle back n reduce stress on ...

A Co Tyrone farmer’s cow has stunned locals by giving birth to rare triplet calves, affectionately named Uno, Dos and Tres, defying odds of one in 100,000. Kieran O’Neill, a dairy farmer from ...

Restrictions against eating “unclean meats/animals with a cloven hoof" is one of those subjects that Christians often think they can skip over because “it’s just an Old Testament dietary law." But ...

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