Preventive Medicine

^k s regards cattle, preven^%tive medicine programs will present general guidelines for specific herd health are called "herd health proprograms but should not be grams." Preventive medicine interpreted as the "only way" can include vaccinations, conto implement preventive trol of parasites, reproductive measures. programs, nutritional programs, and mastitis control. Vaccines General guidelines for Vaccination for respiratory preventive medicine, or herd diseases in northern climates health programs, can easily be is done usually in early fall to formulated but each farm provide maximum protection needs to be considered individduring the fall and winter ually when formulating an expneumonia season. act herd health program. The In beef cattle, regardless program should be formulated of geographic locality, respiraby a cooperative group that tory disease vaccines are genincludes the owner, veterinarerally employed at least 2 ian, extension experts, and weeks before shipment of aniany other consultants necesmals destined for feedlots. sary to aid with specific probThis allows the cattle to delem areas. velop protective antibodies The following information prior to being shipped to a new location where they likely will encounter other William C. Rebhun is Associate cattle assembled from many Professor of Veterinary Medicine farms. and Ophthalmology, New York The common respiratory State College of Veterinary Medidiseases for which vaccines cine, Cornell University, Ithaca. are available include IBR,