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Approximately 5 to 20% of the calves in the US develop navel infections, and 1.6% of the calf mortality is attributed to this condition. The navel cord is a flexible cord-like structure that contains the blood vessels that connect the dam with the fetus during gestation.
Adapted by Christine Miller - UCD graduate student, and Deanne Meyer Ph.D. - UCCE Livestock Waste Management Specialist Forage yields affect many aspects of the dairy, including harvesting costs, feed inventories, and ration formulation.
Adapted by Jennifer Heguy - Dairy Advisor, J.P. Martins - Dairy Advisor, and Deanne Meyer, Livestock Waste Management Specialist Sorghum is a summer forage option when water is short.
Adapted by Deanne Meyer, Ph.D. - UCCE Livestock Waste Management Specialist Soon the results of the second round of funding recipients for the Alternative Manure Management Program will be announced.
Adapted by Nicholas Clark UCCE Kings, Tulare & Fresno Counties & Jennifer Heguy UCCE Merced, Stanislaus & San Joaquin Counties While wet winters have caused sorghum acreage to decrease in recent years, early projections of water deliveries indicate that sorghum planting may once again be a necessi...
Adpated by Leslie J. Butler, PhD - Agricultural and Resource Economics, UCD While a final rule has not yet been issued by the USDA, it is likely that de-pooling under a California Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) would be similar to de-pooling in other FMMOs.
Adapted by Noelia Silva del Rio, DVM, PhD, VMTRC, Tulare Providing newborn calves with adequate IgG supply from colostrum is recognized as an essential management practice in calf rearing.
Adapted by Deanne Meyer, PhD - Livestock Waste Management Specialist, UC Davis Most manure lagoons in California are anaerobic. The microbes digest manure (residual cow food). This removes some of the solids from the lagoon and generates carbon dioxide, methane, and other volatile gases.
