We do our best to keep our cattle healthy while they are here, and set them up for success when they enter the feedlot. Outlined below is the health program for calves from birth to sale.
Birth
Calves were tagged, banded and vaccinated with Bar-Vac CD/T (Clostridium Perfringens Types C & D, Tetanus Toxoid) shortly after birth. The first calf was born this year on March 28th. The average date of birth for this set of steers is April 18th.
branding
In late May / early June, calves were branded and received the following vaccinations:
Pyramid 5 + Presponse SQ (Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR), Bovine Virus Diarrhea types 1 and 2 (BVD1 & BVD2), Parainfluenza 3 (PI3), Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV), Mannheimia haemolytica)
Vision 7 Somnus with SPUR (Clostridium chauvoei, C. septicum, C. novyi, C. sordellii, C. perfringens Types C & D, and Haemophilus somnus)
Preconditioning
Between September 20th and 25th calves were weighed and sorted. They received the following vaccinations at that time:
Nuplura PH+5 (M. haemolytica, Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis, Bovine Viral Diarrhea Virus (Type 1 and Type 2), Bovine Parainfluenza Virus (PI3), and Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus (BRSV)
Vision 7 Somnus with SPUR (Clostridium chauvoei, C. septicum, C. novyi, C. sordellii, C. perfringens Types C & D, and Haemophilus somnus)
Sale Day
Since preconditioning, all of the steer calves have been running together with their mothers on native grass and durum stubble. They will be walked to a holding pen a day or two before the sale and held on hay. The morning of the sale, calves will be sorted from the cows and loaded straight onto the truck. We are expecting the calves to average around 550 pounds in the ring.