By Dr Zoe Vogels|2019-05-20T11:27:57+11:00December 31st, 2018|Categories: CalfWise, Farm Services, HerdWise|Tags: salmonella, vaccination|
While we all spend time with family these holidays, we thought we’d talk about our LEAST favourite family – Salmonella. This bacteria is a serious cause of diarrhoea in calves and cows (and lots of other animals for that matter – including us!) How does Salmonella show up? Clinically affected animals present with diarrhoea, depression,
By The Vet Group|2019-05-20T11:28:13+11:00December 11th, 2018|Categories: CalfWise, Farm Services|Tags: antibodies, colostrum, immune sytstem, vaccination|
At our recent CalfWise workshop, the topic of colostrum antibodies came up: what they are and why they are important. As it’s time to start planning colostral vaccinations we thought it would be worth revisiting.
By The Vet Group|2019-05-20T11:19:16+11:00December 3rd, 2018|Categories: Farm Services, HerdWise|Tags: herdwise, plant toxicity, sudden death|
At last week’s TAP’s On day at Timboon P-12, Dr Zoe Vogels helped organise a fun CSI Timboon activity. It involved students working through stations to help “Farmer Bob” work out what had caused his two cows to suddenly die.
