New guide to scour

Understanding and preventing infectious calf diarrhoea is the subject of a new practical guide published for cattle farmers by Schering-Plough Animal Health.

The handy booklet covers the costs, causes and effects of calf scour before highlighting the crucial importance of effective colostrum management as a key disease prevention strategy.

“An outbreak of infectious calf scour is often serious and invariably extremely costly for the cattle enterprise,” points out Stewart Hall from Schering-Plough Animal Health. “In the current economic climate, the modern beef suckler producer and dairy farmer simply can’t afford the stock losses and growth rate setbacks caused by this disease. It is vital that every practical step is taken to give calves the best start in life and minimising the impact of scour should be part of every youngstock rearing health plan. This practical guide will help farmers focus on the key disease management issues.”