There is much debate about how to best identify and remove bovine viral diarrhea “persistently infected” calves.

Diarrhea in calves can be a challenge, and the No. 1 killer of calves during the first weeks of life. It’s generally not the gut infection that kills a calf, however, but dehydration. Early treatment ...

Managing calf scours starts with prevention and early intervention, according to experts from the Beef Cattle Institute at Kansas State University. During a recent episode of the BCI Cattle Chat, the ...

Dear Dr Othieno Joseph, I am a dairy farmer from Bukembe in Bungoma County. My three cows have calves, and all the calves recently had bad diarrhoea. Luckily, they are healed. What can I do to prevent ...

Like anything else, prevention is preferable to treatment when dealing with scours among calves. Doctor of veterinary medicine and University of Minnesota Extension educator Joe Armstrong has some ...

Calf scours results in sickness, poor performance, medical expenses and death. Scours is a complex disease with many inter-related causes. Agent, host and environmental factors collectively explain ...