Beef
cattle management/ large animal services
The Stuart Veterinary Clinic provides a variety of services for
large animals, including cattle, horses, sheep, and swine. In particular,
the clinic has become a leader in production animal medicine by
integrating sound safe vaccination programs with proper nutritional
decisions progressive management practices. With this approach,
the Stuart Veterinary Clinic achieves improved health, efficient
growth, and effective reproductive performance in production animals.
The clinic veterinarians also enhance large animal services by aggressively
pursuing continued education opportunities in integral areas such
as immunology, parasitology, reproduction, nutrition, and ultrasound
technology.
A few of the value-added
large animal services are summarized below.
Beef
cattle management - Cow Calf Record System
The Stuart Veterinary Clinic utilizes the Cow Calf 5 software program
to evaluate cattle herd reproduction and production efficiency.
The clinic has many years of experience with this program and a
number of successful herds demonstrating the benefits.
Beef
cattle management - Beef Nutrition
The Stuart Veterinary Clinic has historically believed nutrition
and herd health are directly related. We have raised the bar in
the level of nutritional advice we can offer by incorporating the
professional version of the Beef Ration and Nutrition Decision Software
(BRaNDS) in our services. In addition, we encourage on-farm feedstuff
quality analysis for custom ration formulation for any stage of
beef production or development for any individual producer
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Beef
cattle management - Estrous Synchronization
The Estrous Synchronization Planner software program is utilized
by the clinic veterinarians to achieve successful cattle herd estrous
synchronization. This powerful program, which was developed by the
North Central Region Reproductive Task Force, incorporates individual
producer inputs for a wide variety of the latest research-based
estrous synchronization programs. As a result, the program summarizes
the planning steps, schedule of events, and cost per expected pregnancy
for each synchronization program to assist the producer.
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Beef cattle management - Beef Breeding Soundness
Cow calf producers should insist on a complete bull breeding soundness
exam for their herd bulls and bulls they plan to purchase. It is
important the bull has had a complete exam that includes evaluation
of structural and internal anatomy. We frequently detect issues
on a full exam that can result in partial or even total reproductive
failure. Semen- only evaluations are available, but for several
reasons sterile or problem bulls are not consistently detected by
this method. As a result of semen-only examination failures, pastures
having the majority of the females open at fall pregnancy exams
are becoming more common
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