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Practical tips to raising healthy calves
Introduction
Lets get started! (0:45)
Targets
Setting targets (2:39)
Writing down targets (2:59)
Weights and calf performance (2:03)
Immunity versus infection
'Seesaw' effect (1:21)
Dry period
Preseason training (1:38)
Calving the Cow
Calving the cow the basics! 'patience is a virtue' (2:34)
The 'gear and the get go' (2:28)
Stillbirths (3:16)
The game is on! (2:11)
The vital first 24 hours
Colostrum colostrum colostrum part 1 (4:31)
Colostrum colostrum colostrum part 2 (5:44)
Clean colostrum!!!! (6:44)
Testing quality on farm. (2:22)
Checking passive transfer 'acid test' for colostrum management on farm (1:58)
Lactocrine hypothesis and future performance (2:55)
Sources of infection (3:00)
The navel (4:25)
Snatching (1:56)
Bottlenecks in the calf's journey (1:14)
The calf that won't suckle? Bulls need the same attention (3:14)
Hot or cold?
Managing the cold calf (5:51)
The calf jacket (2:32)
Heat stress in calves (4:36)
Water
The most essential nutrient (0:59)
Feeding the calf milk
Introduction, looking to nature and setting targets (4:10)
Introduction consistency (2:15)
Feeding frequency and feeding system. (5:39)
Waste milk, pasteurization and bacteria (2:33)
Milk replacers (5:20)
Automatic feeders (5:26)
Hygiene and feeding (0:56)
Calf starter
All about the rumen (6:12)
Calf concentrates (5:06)
The human factors
The human factors (3:47)
Hygiene
Bad hygiene can be a big problem (5:12)
The biofilm (1:46)
Housing
Key facts (5:10)
Air flow & ventilation (2:46)
Calf comfort and nesting score (1:59)
Stocking density (1:45)
Individual calf pens (1:44)
Assessing ventilation (4:48)
Moisture and drainage (3:17)
Thinking building design (5:05)
Biosecurity
Set out your stall 'make your calf shed a fortress' (1:22)
Keeping disease out (bioexclusion) and reducing spread (biocontainment) (3:06)
Half way reflections
Half way some reflections and well done! (2:11)
Calf signals and spotting sick calves
Examining the calf (3:34)
Examining the group (2:43)
Administering medicines (2:21)
Stress lets understand why we limit it?
What is stress
Pain limits performance (1:43)
Calf socialization
Social animals (4:39)
Calf scour
Introduction to calf scour (4:08)
Make a diagnosis to make a difference (1:39)
The glitter effect (2:16)
How to stomach tube a calf safely (2:18)
Hospital pens (Isolating infection) (1:49)
Oral electrolytes and rehydration (5:18)
Taking a herd approach to scour control (4:51)
Bacteria and viral agents some important things to consider (4:58)
Cryptosporidium (5:30)
Coccidiosis (4:30)
Calf pneumonia
An introduction part 1 (3:05)
An introduction part 2 (4:02)
Symptoms, treatments, diagnostics (5:06)
Who left the gate open, it multifactorial (5:19)
Fresh air! (4:33)
Silver bullets and vaccines (5:05)
Mycoplasma and the pathogens (4:08)
Setting up S.O.Ps for a farm (standard operating procedures
Are you 'busable' (1:33)
Think about SOPs on the calf journey birth to weaning (5:48)
Other diseases
Clostridial diseases and the value of postmortems to diagnose causes of sudden death in calves! (3:20)
Joint ill (3:39)
BVD (3:37)
Ringworm and Lice (4:38)
Calf bloat, diphteria, CCN, (4:58)
Johnes, what we do now influences that calf and herd for a lifetime! (2:54)
Weaning
Weaning time (3:11)
Calf rearing
Buying in calves (4:12)
Wrap up
Thanks (0:31)
Half way some reflections and well done!
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