Western College of Veterinary Medicine Professor Dr. Chris Clark speaks about lameness in beef cattle. My favorite tidbit I remember from his lectures was that “if you treat a lame animal with antibiotics and it doesn’t get better, ITS NOT FOOTROT!”.

This newest video in the Beef Research School series features Dr. Reynold Bergen, the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and BCRC Science Director. He explain what antimicrobial resistance is and answers the question: Is there evidence that antimicrobial use in beef cattle causes antimicrobial resistance in humans?    

Dear Veterinary Students Veterinary Agri-Health Services Ltd. in Airdrie, Alberta is interested in employing a student (preferably entering 2nd year of veterinary medicine) under the Veterinary Work Experience Program (VWEP). This is a program offered as a joint initiative between Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development and veterinary practices to give students work experience during the summer break. Veterinary Agri-Health Services Ltd. is a health management oriented veterinary practice, providing high quality professional services to feedlot and cow/calf operations across western Canada.  These services focus on three areas: (1) animal...

About BIXS Carcass Information BIXS is a voluntary national internet database designed to store and exchange data linked to an individual animal’s unique CCIA/ATQ ID tag number. Through a collaboration between the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and Canadian packers, carcass information for individual animals is being made available to producers in the BIXS database. The current requirement to view carcass information for a specific animal is registration in the Beef InfoXchange System (BIXS) as well as ownership of that animal at some point in its life. Once the CCIA ID is recorded in the BIXS database, a producer will be able to...

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a caretaker.” So God made a farmer.  

Age determination by examination of the permanent erupted incisors is a fairly reliable indication of age from 30 up to 48-60 months, when the permanent dentition is complete. After this period, the rate of wear provides a more useful criterion for age estimation. The rate of wear depends on genetics, diet, soil conditions, and other factors such as the presence, or absence, of minerals in the diet. In all cases, age determination by dentition provides an approximation of the real age of an animal. Attached is a guideline for age verification in...