Feeding Frequency and IgG Absorption
More feedings sounds like it should mean more antibody absorption, but this study tested that assumption directly. Researchers compared a low-frequency feeding protocol (two feedin...
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Heat Stress and Colostrum Quality: Beating the Heat Starts Before Calving
Summer heat doesn’t just make cows uncomfortable, reducing feed intake and subsequent production, it sets off a chain of biological events that affect...
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Beyond Day 1: A Practical Guide to Colostrum and Transition Feeding
WHY SHOULD I FEED COLOSTRUM BEYOND DAY 1? The biological needs of the calf that are supported by the nutrition in colostrum do not stop after the firs...
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Is Day One Colostrum Management the Key to Improving Beef on Dairy Health at the Feedlot?
However, with increased value comes increased scrutiny. Feedlots and calf raisers have long recognized that early-life management on the dairy farm in...
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Preweaning Health Is a Lifetime Profitability Issue
The preweaning period is the riskiest time in a dairy calf’s life. Disease and death are most concentrated in these first weeks, and the consequences ...
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Not all Colostrum is Created Equal: Why Fat Matters More Than You Think for Calves
Introduction Colostrum is natures first and most powerful nourishment for a calf, setting them up for short- and long-term health and productivity. No...
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More than an Antibody Bolus: The Benefits of Colostrum Beyond IgGs
Colostrum has 4 primary functions to support calves and their development: Promoting growth Antimicrobial action Priming of the immune system Nutritio...
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Maternal Colostrum Quality Varies, Calf Health Shouldn't
Colostrum is the foundation of calf health. It provides the newborn calf with immunoglobulins through passive transfer that are essential for survival...
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Maximizing the Most Important Meal in the Life of a Cow
Calves are born with no antibodies (the basis of what makes up an immune system) as they do not pass to the calf through the bovine placenta like they...
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The Importance of A Holistic Approach to Colostrum Management: Enrichment and Extended Feeding
Introduction Diarrhea consistently throws a wrench into an already busy time of the year for calf managers whether said calves are black and white spo...
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Dealing with Diarrhea: A 4-step Approach
Introduction Neonatal Calf diarrhea (NCD), also known as scours, remains one of the most significant health challenges in pre-weaned calves contributi...
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7 Things To Have In Stock This Calving Season: A Veterinarian-Approved Checklist
As we prepare for calving, taking inventory of the tools that need to be on hand should be top of mind before the first calf hits the ground. Make sur...
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Mental Health & Calf Health: A Good Start Builds a Strong Future
Introduction October marks International Mental Health Awareness Month. Across the globe, farmers face mounting pressures: economic uncertainty, clima...
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Colostrum Beyond the First Feeding: Supporting Calves Through Diarrhea
Introduction As the dairy industry continues to evolve under the pressure of antimicrobial resistance, producers are seeking alternatives to tradition...
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The Colostrum Counsel - Restoring Gut Health in Calves: The Key Role of Colostrum During Times of Stress
Heat Stress: A Hidden Threat to Calf Health While the impact of summer heat on lactating cows is well known, its effect on calves is often underestima...
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Unlocking the Power of Transition Milk: Evidence and Application
Introduction Traditionally, this feeding is limited to a single dose of high-quality (> 50g/L of IgG) colostrum within the first hours post-birth. ...
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Ready for a Challenge? Discover How You and Your Calves Can Thrive!
Understanding Calf Personality Traits Recent research has shown that dairy calves exhibit distinct personality traits that affect their responses to v...
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Preventing Respiratory Disease in Calves: Why Environment and Colostrum Matter
How common is it? In a Canadian study involving 74 dairy farms and over 7,800 calves, nearly 30% of calves were treated at least once during the prewe...
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Beef Calves Start Strong with Colostrum
Introduction Colostrum, the first milk produced by the dam, is rich in immunoglobulins (antibodies), essential nutrients, and bioactive components tha...
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The Critical Role of Passive Immunity in Calf Health and Development
Introduction Newborn calves have an underdeveloped immune system and no circulating maternal antibodies, leaving them highly susceptible to infectious...
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Improving The Quality Of Maternal Colostrum Through Supplementation With A Colostrum Replacer
Introduction Colostrum, rich in nutrients and antibodies, is essential for providing passive immunity to newborn calves. The concentration of Immunogl...
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Colostrum Management for Dairy Goat Kids: A Critical Practice for Survival
Proper colostrum management is crucial for the health and survival of dairy goat kids. Colostrum provides essential nutrients and immune protection, w...
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When do my beef calves need a colostrum product?
In contrast, when beef calves are born, they are not commonly fed by hand as cattlemen typically depend on the calf to suckle enough colostrum from th...
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Tips for keeping calves cool during the heat of the summer
A calf’s body temperature will rise and fall with the surrounding air temperature. When night temperatures remain above 78°F, calves are unable to ret...
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Feeding colostrum as a therapy for diarrhea in preweaned calves
Diarrhea in preweaning calves is a multifactorial disease that is contracted due to a combination of environmental, management, and pathogenic factors...
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Common Calfhood Diseases: Prevention and Treatment of Scours
Prevention is the single most important step in managing calf scours. Whether a calf stays healthy or gets scour is determined by the balance between ...
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How can heat stress during late-gestation affect our calves and colostrum quality?
During the summer months, it is hot and humid and we notice that our lactating cows reduce their feed intake and in turn they do not produce as much m...
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Common Calfhood Diseases: Recognizing Scours
1. Causes of calf scours: Scours can be classified into two types: nutritional and infectious. Nutritional scours is usually caused by stress due to a...
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Enrichment; boosting your free maternal colostrum to guarantee quality
It is now widely known colostrum is essential for calf survival, performance and has impacts on lifelong productivity. Colostrum management typically ...
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The critical role that thermogenesis plays during the first hours of a calf’s life
We know the significant impacts of failure of passive transfer from low IgG consumption after birth, but did you know colostral fat can also impact th...
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Test for success - measuring immune transfer in calves after colostrum feeding gives us insight into herd health opportunities
My calves received colostrum. How can I now verify that my calves have enough immunity? Many producers often question if there are visual ways to dete...
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Feeding dried colostrum to newborn lambs and kids proves a highly effective and convenient alternative
What is colostrum? Colostrum is the first secretion produced by the doe/ewe’s mammary gland, and is the key and most important source of nutrition for...
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Are paste products effective shortcuts for newborn calves?
As Director of Veterinary Technical Services for Saskatoon Colostrum Company, I often get asked my opinion on the various tubes of paste that are on t...
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What Is A Veterinary Biologic And Why Is It An Important Designation?
What is a Veterinary Biologic? Veterinary Biologics are typically defined as “animal health products such as vaccines, antibody products, and in vitro...
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Feeding Frequency and IgG Absorption
More feedings sounds like it should mean more antibody absorption, but this study tested that assumption directly. Researchers compared a low-frequenc...
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Delayed Feeding and Ileum Immune Development
The ileum is a key site for immune development in a newborn calf, and this study looked at what happens to that development when first colostrum feedi...
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Colostrum Volume/IgG and Beef Calf Behavior
Most colostrum research focuses on dairy, but beef calves face a different set of management realities, less controlled feeding, more reliance on natu...
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Colostrum as Therapy for Calf Diarrhea
Diarrhea is one of the most common and costly problems in preweaned calves, and prevention usually gets more attention than treatment once it's alread...
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Passive Transfer of Colostral Leukocytes
gG gets the spotlight in colostrum quality conversations, but colostrum also carries live white blood cells from the dam. This analysis weighs the act...
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Refractometer Accuracy for Passive Immunity
Refractometers are the go-to farm tool for checking passive transfer, fast, cheap, and simple, but this study looked at where that method actually fal...
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Fatty Acids in Colostrum and Transition Milk
Fat content in colostrum isn't just about calories, certain fatty acids show up as markers tied to rumen and gut health. This study measured odd- and ...
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Transition Milk and Colostrum Replacer in Milk Replacer
Transition milk often gets overlooked once the colostrum window closes, but this study looked at what happens when it's used deliberately, or replaced...
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Colostrum Feeding and Neuroendocrine Gene Expression
Colostrum's influence goes beyond gut and immune development, it may also be shaping the signaling systems that regulate appetite and metabolism. This...
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IgG-Enriched Colostrum Replacer Absorption
Ensuring a newborn calf receives sufficient IgG, as quickly as possible, is central to successful passive immunity, yet not all colostrum replacers pe...
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National Passive Immunity Consensus Recommendations
Sometimes the most useful research isn't a single study, it's the industry stepping back and agreeing on a standard. This is the National Animal Healt...
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Colostrum Feeding and Gut Development
A newborn calf's gut isn't ready to do much on its own at birth, it needs help getting there fast. This study compared calves fed straight colostrum f...
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Oligosaccharides in Colostrum and Milk
Colostrum isn't just about antibodies, it's also carrying oligosaccharides, compounds increasingly linked to gut health and immune function in newborn...
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Colostrum and Transition Milk Proteomes
Antibodies get most of the attention when it comes to colostrum quality, but the full protein picture is a lot bigger than IgG alone. This study mappe...
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Nutritional Regulation of Calf Gut Function
Gut development in calves doesn't stop after the colostrum window closes, it's an ongoing process shaped by nutrition all the way through weaning. Thi...
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Colostrum Timing and Gut Microflora
A newborn calf's gut isn't ready to do much on its own at birth, it needs help getting there fast. This study compared calves fed straight colostrum f...
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Extended Colostrum Feeding and GLP-1
Most producers think of colostrum as a day-one job, get it in fast and move on. This study looked at what happens when colostrum feeding gets extended...
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Colostrum Feeding and Colonic Immune Development
A calf's colon does more than just handle waste, it's actually a major site of immune development early in life. This study used genome-wide analysis ...
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Delayed Colostrum Feeding and GLP Hormones
If day-one colostrum feeding isn't hitting the mark timing-wise, this study looked at what actually changes hormonally when it's delayed. Researchers ...
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Tube vs Bottle Feeding Colostrum
Tube feeding vs. bottle feeding is one of those decisions producers make fast in the moment, but this study actually dug into whether the method itsel...
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Heat Treatment and Colostrum Oligosaccharides
Heat treatment is a common way to cut bacterial risk in pooled colostrum, but it's fair to ask what else that process might be changing. This study lo...
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Delayed Colostrum Feeding and Passive Transfer
Delaying that first colostrum feeding doesn't just cost antibody absorption, it changes what's colonizing the gut in those early hours too. This study...
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Colostrum Protein Rankings for Calf Health
Not all proteins in colostrum carry equal weight when it comes to calf health outcomes. This study used a proteomics approach to rank colostrum and mi...
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Colostrum Replacer Supplementation and Calf Health
Beyond day-one passive transfer, does continuing to supplement with colostrum replacer actually change health outcomes down the line? This study evalu...
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Colostrum Storage and Calf Growth
Storing colostrum feels like a simple logistics question, but this study looked at whether storage conditions actually change what a calf gets out of ...
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Colostral Volume, Milking Interval, and Photoperiod
Colostrum quality isn't purely random, it's shaped by factors producers can actually influence or at least anticipate. This study looked at how colost...
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Extended Colostrum Supplementation and Calf Health
Antimicrobial resistance concerns have pushed the industry to look for alternatives to routine antibiotic use, and this study tested whether extending...
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24-Hour Passive Immunity and Calf Performance
The 24-hour IgG check is standard practice, but this study looked at what that single snapshot actually predicts down the road. Researchers linked pas...
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