Cattle feeding

There are currently seven billion people on Earth, with an annual growth of 75 million people yearly. The average age of cattle producers is approaching 60 years old, and consist of less than one percent of the U.S. population. Cattle producers in the U.S. are a key part of feeding the world, even though the amount of total cattle is fourth in the world, the U.S. market is the most consistent and regulated. To keep up with the growing population on less and less land each year, new management…

A. 1. This week’s session on sustainability hit very close to home with me. My adult children have been altering their consumption habits by buying organic, antibiotic free, and non-gmo products over the last few months. They have also been purchasing either free range or locally grown meats, local meat markets. After reading “A Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change”, I also altered my buying habits for the week. I knew, from my daughters, that there were health benefits to eating organic…

There are numerous risk factors identified by many researchers that influence the occurrence of clinical mastitis such as age, parity, lactation stage, milk yield(Yamane, 2003; Rollin et al., 2015) A. Breed Risk of mastitis varies from breed to breed. High yielding cows are generally considered to be more susceptible to intramammary infection e.g. Holstein Frisian (HF), Jersey or HF and Jersey cross bred dairy cows are more susceptible to mastitis than Desi (Zebu) breeds of cows (Sharma, 2003)…

Many foods now either have some sort of hormone or antibiotic in them to promote growth or stop growth. These drugs have help fight of infection or help with deficiencies and that's a great thing but what the food industry force feeding livestock that’s a bad thing. With to many antibiotics and hormones being fed to livestock it bound to stay in the meat and cause very harmful effects on consumers and producers everywhere. Also all of the sugars and other thing that we consume. First, In the…

with this info we can go and fix the problem before any damage is done Tom Burke, K. S. (1996). Later in the 1970s an idea was formed instead of have one bull fertilizing a whole herd of cow they thought of the idea to take its semen and inplant it into the cows. So one cow was owned by a whole group of breeders and rnachers would buy the semen from the breeders and instead of having a bull they just use the inplants and in half a year they start having babies Tom Burke, K. S. (1996). This also…

Vegan people can still lead a very healthy lifestyle. I personally don 't think that being Vegan is the best choice. Before I did research I thought that if all cattle was grass feed and raised organically it would be fine. The cows would be happy so we would be happy, But upon doing research I have learned differently. If all the cattle needed to sustain the current meat eaten by Americans, just Americans, was suddenly all organically raised and grass feed they would be using 3.7 billion acres…

hooks area? Are there abscesses, or bump and bruises? Upon completion of these simple observations one should have an idea whether to not the free stalls or tie stalls require modification. In general, we often don’t think about socializing with cattle but is a factor that is needed in our dairy cows lives. Socializing refers to the amount of time that a cow can spend walking around given the ability to interact with other animals around themselves. Meaning that that are participating in…

What are the effects of preconditioning cattle at weaning? In the beef cattle business the question commonly asked is, what are the effects of preconditioning weaned cattle? Well through many studies I can confidently say that preconditioning cattle is a must, but the way the beef industry works, it does not always look to be profitable to the commercial cow calf producer. When preconditioning cattle it will add in more expenses and more labor to be able to implement these practices when the…

As an individual, I have always had this perception of wanting to make this world a better environment or at least a positive impact for people. This has directed me to the path of being in the medical field as a pediatrician for children. Many children may suffer from diseases or a type of illness in which they can not afford of seeing a pediatrician due to financial stability or economic reasons. In order to pursue this goal of mine, I have been immensely putting forth an effort towards…

During this clinical rotation, we had an opportunity to go to the different Creabrook locations and be able to observe not only clients but also Clearbrook healthcare providers and their role in providing care to Clearbrook clients. Our first stop was at the Commons, were we had to meet with doctor K. for psychiatry rounds. Unfortunately, doctor was not able to make it, but we did have a change to observe a little bit of a meeting between other nurses and social workers, where they shared a…