Dairy Digest, November 2005
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In this Issue: Serum Mineral Status and Periparturient Disease; Strategies for Successful Weaning of Dairy Calves; Forage Choices for Feeding Dairy Cows; Increasing Your Energy Efficiency; New Job Description Generator Makes Preparing Job Descriptions Easier; Hooked on Stray Voltage; Coping with High Energy Costs
- Serum Mineral Status and Periparturient Disease
- Most veterinarians and dairy producers are familiar with the use of blood mineral concentration determinations as an aid in disease diagnosis. Although it is useful to know what is responsible for a disease process, a preferred option is to determine if a cow is metabolically unstable and will ultimately succumb to some disease process.
- Strategies for Successful Weaning of Dairy Calves
- While weaning calves early makes good sense economically, it is essential that adequate rumen development occurs before weaning.
- Forage Choices for Feeding Dairy Cows
- Increasing Your Energy Efficiency
- New Job Description Generator Makes Preparing Job Descriptions Easier
- Hooked on Stray Voltage
- "It lets them get off the hook!"
- Coping with High Energy Costs
- We are all aware of the dire constraints we may be facing this winter because of the dramatic increases in the prices of all forms of energy, except electricity. Fortunately, the autumn weather has been quite mild thus far, so we have not needed too much fuel for space heating purposes yet.
- Coming Event - Agricultural Ammonia Forum
