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Guidelines for the Care and Handling of Cattle

PRODUCER CODE OF CATTLE CARE
Beef cattle producers take pride in their responsibility to provide
proper care to cattle. The Code of Cattle Care below lists general
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Your answer may lies at this website

Guidelines for the Care and Handling of Cattle

PRODUCER CODE OF CATTLE CARE
Beef cattle producers take pride in their responsibility to provide
proper care to cattle. The Code of Cattle Care below lists general
recommendations for care and handling of cattle:
• Provide necessary food, water and care to protect the health and
well-being of animals.
• Provide disease prevention practices to protect herd health,
including access to veterinary care.
• Provide facilities that allow safe, humane, and efficient movement
and/or restraint of cattle.
• Use appropriate methods to humanely euthanize terminally sick or
injured livestock and dispose of them properly.
• Provide personnel with training/experience to properly handle
and care for cattle.
• Make timely observations of cattle to ensure basic needs are
being met.
• Minimize stress when transporting cattle.
• Keep updated on advancements and changes in the industry to
make decisions based upon sound production practices and
consideration for animal well-being.
• Persons who willfully mistreat animals will not be tolerated.

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Vaccinations The general rule is that you vaccinate in the face of an outbreak.

worming April-May is a good time. Sometimes twice a year.

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I have a farm that farms cattle.

Vaccinations The general rule is that you vaccinate in the face of an outbreak.

worming April-May is a good time. Sometimes twice a year.

drenching There are a lot of different kinds. Some you have to keep away from frost. This is also according to need. Check their dung.

calving The season and month of the year to begin the calving season should include economic, management, nutritional and health considerations, all of which are part of well designed cow-calf operation. We commonly find three calving scenarios used by cattle producers: spring calving, fall calving and year-round calving.

weaning You wean by age of calf. 221 days of age or a little over seven months of age or between 170 and 259 days of age or roughly between five and one-half to eight and one-half months of age. Calves weaned at five months of age of less may be considered early weaned, and there are notable advantages to using early weaning strategies in cow-calf operations.

drying off There is considerable variation in the current dry-off procedures for dairy cows. This will usually depend on the cow’s production and condition score, which may result in a dry period longer or shorter than 60 days. The production at which to dry off a cow generally is defined as
" the daily milk yield at which the return from milk sales is equal to the labour cost for milking plus the cost of additional feed above maintenance and pregnancy levels."
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milking-- Cows must give birth before milk production can start. Cows are milked twice a day, morning and evening during the lactation period. Production levels peak at around 40 to 60 days after calving.[1] The cow is then bred. Production declines steadily afterwards, until, at about 305 days after calving, the cow is 'dried off', and milking ceases.

mating Cows are ready to mate and have young when they are about 9 months old. About fourteen months of age for Holsteins is when they are fit.