Practical ideas and answers to calf health and calf scours prevention.

Calves can get sick even on the best operations. To help you devise a game plan for preventing scours, we asked industry experts to answer some common questions.

• When trying to find the source of a calf problem, what procedures or tests might a veterinarian complete on the farm to aid in understanding the source, and what can a producer do?
• What information that’s important to interpreting results needs to be included when submitting samples to the lab?
• In layman’s terms, what is the difference between Elisa and PCR tests, and how do you interpret results?
• If the lab reports a positive for multiple pathogens, how do you determine which pathogen is the prevalent one most likely having the most impact on the calf?

For the answers, read the full article that first appeared in Progressive Dairy Magazine.

This post originally appeared in Progressive Dairy magazine.