A 100-Year Review: Calf nutrition and management

Calf Nutrition and Colostrum Management

Calf mortality is highest during the first six months of life. Added to this is the losses to the industry caused by around 50,000 breeding cows (1.4% of the U.K total) dying at calving, mainly as a result of dystocia. Scouring is the most common disease in young calves and, as a result, is the greatest single cause of death in calves, accounting for almost 50% of all calf deaths. Scouring in c...

Glossopharyngeal schwannomas: a 100 year review.

OBJECTIVES To review the literature on glossopharyngeal schwannomas with a focus on clinical presentation, radiologic/audiologic characteristics, and management options, and to propose a mechanism explaining the nature of vestibulocochlear dysfunction seen with these tumors. STUDY DESIGN Contemporary review. METHODS English literature search for cases of primary isolated glossopharyngeal sc...

A review on nutrition and skin aging

Background: Skin reflects the general health status and is not an exception in the process of aging. Intervention studies indicate that it is possible to delay skin aging and improve skin conditions through diet-based anti-aging strategies. The purpose of the current work was to review recent existing literature regarding the role of nutrition, for and against skin aging processes.Method: This ...

Enhancing Calf Immunity through Nutrition

Dairy calves are extremely susceptible to gastro-intestinal disease during the preweaned period. The risk for disease decreases as the calf ages; therefore, I think it is important to break the pre-weaned period up into at least 2 distinct phases that likely need to be managed differently, early life (1 and maybe the 2 week of life) and the remaining time the calf is fed fluid (milk or milk rep...

Calcium in the Nutrition of the Fattening Calf Calcium in the Nutrition of the Fattening Calf