The Manager — April 2007
Milk Quality
Early intervention for heifers — About 30 to 60% of heifers' quarters have intramammary bacterial infections at freshening. Does that mean you should treat heifers with intramammary antibiotics precalving?
Bill Stone
Mama's got mastitis and metritis — You can reduce those problems bolstering your cows' immune system
Matt Waldron
Three tough bugs — What's up with Streps, Klebsiella and E. coli? For answers, researchers turn to DNA and other laboratory techniques to better understand these bugs and to suggest management practices that can help prevent them from doing too much
John Barlow, Ruth Zadoks