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Beef Cattle Health MGMT Flashcards

1
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Common body temperature

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101.5 degrees F

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Common heart rate

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48-84 bpm

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Respiration rate

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26-50 breaths/minute

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How long should normal cows spend chewing cud each day?

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6 hours

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5
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Which is more costly: managing through a disease outbreak in a herd or implementing a preventative health program?

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Managing through a disease outbreak in a herd

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What to do during the initial development of a herd health program?

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Establish a plan to meet the management needs of the herd

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What needs to be done to cattle when they enter times of stress or when their health is challenged?

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They need to be most protected

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Is consulting other producers in the area a good idea?

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Yes

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Who is an excellent resource to help develop a herd health program?

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Local vet

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10
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Cattle have which 2 types of immunity?

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Passive and Active

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What is passive immunity?

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Immunity that passes from the cow to her calf in colostrum

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What is active immunity?

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Either naturally developed from exposure to a disease or as the result of an immunization program

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13
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Where should a good herd health program begin?

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In the cow herd prior to calves being born

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14
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What does a cow herd vaccination program do?

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Stimulated the immune system in cow causing her to build the necessary antibodies to provide passive immunity to her calf in colostrum

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15
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Does BSC affect the quantity and/or quality of the colostrum a cow produces? Effect on calf?

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Yes. Lower (thinner) scoring cows will not produce the same quantity or quality. Calfs of these cows will not receive the same level of protection

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16
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When is it important to establish a good health plan considering calves?

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Prior to them being moved from the farm or ranch of origin

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To what health challenges and diseases will calves carry a level of natural immunity?

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The place (farm, ranch, etc…) where it is born

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18
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What else should a good health plan take into consideration for calves?

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The future location of the calf

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19
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How to prepare calf for future location?

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Build a vaccination plan for where the cattle are being to (if sold)

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How many days should the calves be weaned after the last round of vaccination?

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30 days

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21
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What minimum should calves be weaned before they’re shipped?

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30 days

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What should producers do when working with food animal health products?

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Always follow label directions for dosage, route of administration, and withdrawal times

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23
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Producers should becomes certified in what and do what?

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Beef Quality Assurance training and employ good BQA practices when vaccinating and handling animals

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What should be given particular attention?

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Biosecurity as people enter and exit the farm

25
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Ectoparasite infection symptoms

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Bother animals, suck blood, transmit disease, human nuisance

26
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Different ectoparasites

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Face flies, horn flies, heal flies (warbles), Lice and mange (mites)

27
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How big are face flies?

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House fly

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What do face flies transmit?

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Pinkeye

29
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How to control face flies?

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Sprays, dusts, oilers, and pour-ons

30
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Where do horn flies reproduce?

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Fresh manure

31
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When to treat horn flies?

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250 flies/head

32
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Treatment for horn flies?

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Sprays, dusts/dust bags, back rubbers, ear tags, feed additives, and pour-ons

33
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Where do heal flies (warbles) lay eggs? When?

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Heels of cattle in late winter and early spring

34
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What do eggs do?

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They hatch, burrow into skin, and travel through body (emerging in fall along the back)

35
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Basic fly control

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Spraying, dusting, dipping, ear tags (impregnated with insecticides have been effective), oral larvicides, sanitation (remove breeding sites of flies), changing tag brands each year (to avoid resistant strains), sticky tape

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Lice & mange (mites) control

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Pour-on compounds in fall, some products effective for external & internal (others only for lice)

37
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Different endoparasites

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Coccidia (cause Coccidiosis), roundworms, tapeworms, liver flukes

38
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What does Coccidia cause?

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Intestinal disease of young cattle

39
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How is Coccidiosis transmitted?

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Manure and ingested

40
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What can induce Coccidiosis?

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Rain, cold, or stress

41
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What does Coccidiosis cause?

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Black or bloody scours

42
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Treatment for Coccidiosis?

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Amprol, Corid, Deccox, Bovatec, & Rumensin

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Roundworms, tapeworms, liver flukes symptoms

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Anemia, reduced performance, and rough hair coats

44
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How are some deworming products available?

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Paste, injectable, pour-ons

45
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How many times should a breeding herd be dewormed? When? Why?

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2 times a year in spring and fall to break the life cycle of parasites

46
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When should calves be dewormed?

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3 or 4 months of age and weaning

47
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Where are roundworms found?

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On all cattle pastures

48
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What worm do roundworms include?

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Ostertagia (Brown worm)

49
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Roundworms mostly seen in what cattle?

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Calves and young cattle

50
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How much can roundworms reduce growth rates?

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30%

51
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What is the scientific name of tapeworms?

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Taenia

52
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What are tapeworms?

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Flatworms that live in the small intestine of
calves and shed segments containing eggs into dung

53
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How do tapeworms infect cattle?

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Immature tapeworms develop in a mite host and infect cattle when the mite is eaten with the graze

54
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What do tapeworms do to host?

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Cause no known pathogenic effects

55
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What do calves do when they’re infected with tapeworms?

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Become resistant to them

56
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Liver fluke is caused by what parasite?

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Fasciloa hepatica

57
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What do liver flukes do?

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Condemnation of livers

58
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Liver flukes symptoms

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Reduced liveweight gains through reduced feed conversion efficiency, reduced milk yields & fertility, anemia, diarrhea, death

59
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Dewormers for roundworms, tapeworms, and liver flukes

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Benzimadizoles, Macrocyclic Lactones, Imidazothiazoles

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