Determining frequency of mortality by cause and association with days of age categories in a calf ranch
With the increase of beef-dairy calves, limited work has been done evaluating causes of mortality in commercial calf ranches. The objectives were to report the frequency of gross mortality diagnosis by necropsy at commercial calf ranches and to determine association of days of age (DOA) with mortality.
Authors
- Miles E. Theurer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8694-1415)
- Cecilia Benoit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1000-6049)
- Robert L. Larson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3633-403X)
- Brad J. White (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4293-6128)
- Phillip A. Lancaster (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2871-6065)
- C. Claxton
- R.A. Bigelow
- T.R. Barnhardt
Institutions
- English Heritage (GB)
- Kansas State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- American Association of Bovine Practitioners Conference Proceedings
- Published
- 2025-03-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro20249153
- Primary Topic
- Effects of Environmental Stressors on Livestock
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00