Herd Health & Management
Guides on preventive health, reproduction management, calf & heifer management and pasture & environment.
Preventive Health
- A Beef Herd Vaccination Program: What to Ask Your VetVaccines work only when timed and handled correctly. The common diseases, the timing and the questions to ask.
- Cattle Parasite Control Basics: A Plan, Not a HabitFlies, lice and worms cost cattle producers real money. Why a routine plan built with your vet beats blanket treatments.
Reproduction Management
- Artificial Insemination in Angus Herds: Building Consistency With AIAn AI program lets a herd use top sires and keep the females and bulls that prove themselves.
- Culling Decisions That Pay: Keep, Sell or RebuildA plain-language framework for deciding which cows stay, which go, and when to rebuild the herd.
- Fertility First: What a Tight Six-Week Calving Window Looks LikeIn a well-run commercial Angus herd, nearly all the calves arrive in a short, predictable stretch.
- The Angus Cow as the Engine of the Herd: What Management RequiresEvery pound of beef starts with a cow that breeds, calves and raises a calf, and managing her well is most of the job.
Calf & Heifer Management
- Choosing Replacement Heifers: Which Angus Females to KeepThe heifers you keep today are the cow herd in five years. How to sort for fertility, structure, temperament and fit.
- Using Records to Manage Weaned Calves BetterA few simple numbers, written down and compared, can improve nearly every decision between weaning and sale.
Pasture & Environment
- Backgrounding Angus Calves in High-Rainfall CountryWet climates grow abundant grass, but they also bring mud, parasites and quality swings that shape every backgrounding decision.
- Rotational Grazing Across Six Paddocks: Planning a Perennial Pasture RotationSix paddocks give each pasture time to recover. Here is how to plan the moves.
- Rotational Grazing for Beef Cattle: A Practical IntroductionMoving cattle through paddocks lets grass recover and can stretch your forage. The basics before you build a single fence.
- TMR vs. Pasture: Matching Feed Strategy to Herd Size and GeographyNeither system is better in the abstract. The right one depends on your land, your feed prices and how many cows you run.