Purpose:

The purpose of this webpage is to provide supplemental on-line material for students enrolled in VMS 261 Accidents and Diseases. The material is added with the most recent on top, the oldest on the bottom.

Future Stuff:

Finding Sick Feedlot Calves Early (Video - GPVEC)
http://gpvec.unl.edu/public/Training/feedlot.htm

A Weaning System That Makes Finding Sick Cattle Easier
http://gpvec.unl.edu/public/files/feedlot/findsick.htm

Final Exam:

According to my reading of the Registrar's Spring 1999 Final Exam Schedule at:
http://www.registrar.wsu.edu/FinalExams-Spring99.htm

The Final Exam Period for VMS 261 is 8 AM, Tuesday, May 4th.

Other Relevant On-line Stuff:

Calf Scours (diarrhea):

Scours
http://www.forages.css.orst.edu/Topics/Pastures/Species/Grasses/Animal_issues/Scours.html

Calfhood Scours (D Marcinknowski, U Maine)
http://www.umaine.edu/livestock/Publications/scours.htm

Electrolytes Are The First Line Of Defense For Treating Scours (D Marcinknowski, U Maine)
http://www.umaine.edu/livestock/Publications/electrolytes.htm

For Additional Information:

Calf Management - Birth to Weaning (dairy calves - T Brown, Tarleton State Univ)
http://www.afns.ualberta.ca/wcds/wcd98/ch17.htm

Calf Scours: Causes, Prevention and Treatment (NebGuide)
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/animaldisease/g269.htm

Disease Protection of Baby Calves (colostrum in beef calves - Oklahoma State)
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/exten/beef/f-3358.pdf

Electrolyte Treatment for Scouring Dairy Calves (KG Bateman, Ontario)
http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/livestock/dairy/facts/electrol.htm

Neonatal Calf Diarrhea (KG Bateman, Ontario)
http://www.gov.on.ca/OMAFRA/english/livestock/dairy/facts/85-041.htm

 

Calving Difficulty (dystocia):

Calving and handling calving difficulties (NCBA IRM Seminars, RG Mortimer, CSU)
In-depth description of the calving process
http://www.beef.org/prodirm/irm_mortimer.htm

Calving: When and How to Help (handed out in class - Know this one!)
http://www.agri-infolink.com/facs/calving.htm

For Further Information:

On-line pictures of calving sequence
http://members.tripod.com/~Rocking_BS_Ranch/index-2.html

Assisting the Beef Cow at Calving Time
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/beef/g539.htm

Requirements for drug use by producers:

For Further Information:

AMDUCA (conditions for extra-label use of drugs in food animals)

AVMA Information http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/apr97/s040197a.html#22

FDA Information http://www.fda.gov/cvm/fda/TOCs/amducatoc.html

AMDUCA Final Law (Federal Register) http://www.fda.gov/cvm/fda/infores/updates/amducafr.html

Relevant Specific Website Text Materials of Mine:

Bovine Herd Salmonellosis, Including DT104: Eleven Characteristics to Keep in Mind (54 K)
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/FDIUHerdSalmonella.htm

Basic Concepts for Cow-Calf Herd Health Programs
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/FDIUCowCalfHH.htm

Calf Scour Slides
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/VMADCalfScours.htm

Conditions for Producers' Use of Livestock Drugs (Know!)
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/VMADProducerDrugs.htm

For Further Information:

Introduction to Herd Production Medicine (from the veterinary side - 56 K)
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/PMIntroduction.htm

Internet Resources:

The Internet contains a wealth of materials relevant to this class and to your interests in livestock health and disease. One reason that so much information relevant to this class is on the Web is that a major mission of the agricultural extension service is to communicate information to producers and the Internet provides an excellent mechanism for doing that to the dispersed audience of producers. As a result, many very useful extension publications are on the Web. The medical literature can also be searched for free on-line through the National Library of Medicine. Because approximately half of the veterinary literature is cataloged by the NLM, you can locate and read the abstracts to much of the veterinary literature. Cornell Consultant also provides an on-line means to identify the most recent relevant clinical literature as selected by Dr. Maurice White, a Cornell food animal clinician. As the WorldWideWeb matures, the amount and quality of information will likely increase.

WWWeb Sources for Agricultural Animal Veterinarians (115 KB - takes a minute or so to load across a modem)
http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/courses-jmgay/AgLinks.htm

Contains my webpage of links to useful on-line materials for ag-animal veterinarians.

National Library of Medicine PubMed
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

One of the great features of PubMed is the "related article" function that enables you to find the closely related papers that they have indexed close to a good hit that you have found.

Cornell Consultant: A Diagnostic Support System for Veterinary Medicine (Dr. M E White; A unique resource to establish differentials and to identify current papers on a disease)
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultant/consult.asp

Cornell Consultant has a direct link to PubMed with a search string already entered for specific diseases and links to other on-line resources.

You can order the papers through PubMed, through the Cornell Flowers Library, or by Adobe Acrobat PDF file through e-mail from the University of Washington at http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/forms/order.html. The later takes credit cards and a couple of days.

Examples of On-line Extension Collections: (WSU is behind in this regard)

Arizona Rancher’s Management Guide Index
http://ag.arizona.edu/AREC/rmg/RG_Index.html

University of Illinois NETS - On-line papers, links
http://www.ansci.uiuc.edu/extension/

BeefNet
http://www.ansci.uiuc.edu/beefnet/

DairyNet
http://www.ansci.uiuc.edu/dairynet/

PorkNet
http://www.ansci.uiuc.edu/porknet/

Iowa State University

Beef Cattle Extension Publications - online multistate collection
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/agnic/expbcow.html

Dairy Cattle Extension Publications - online multistate collection
http://www.lib.iastate.edu/agnic/expdcow.html

Kansas State University Animal Sciences & Industry Research & Extension (on-line extension publications and several years of proceedings of producer meetings for beef, dairy and swine - go through "veterinary extension" to "publications")
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_ansi/

Missouri Extension Publications
http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/index.htm

NebGuide (Nebraska Extension Guides)
http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/animaldisease/

Oklahoma State University Animal Science Publications -  (Agribusiness, Beef, Dairy, Horse, ...)
http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/exten/publica.html

Utah State University Extension Agriculture Publications
http://www.ext.usu.edu/publica/agpubs.htm

Western Canadian Dairy Seminar Home Page (University of Alberta - entire 95, 96, 97 & 98 proceedings are on-line)
http://www.afns.ualberta.ca/wcds/index.htm

Animal Science Courses on the Web (a bit dated)
http://www.ais.msstate.edu/aglinks/aniwc.html