1984

Cover image of the 17th Conference Proceedings: A photo of the Iowa State Capitol with a blue overlay that washes out most of the photo. On the bottom of the image are, from right to left, a picture of the Terrace Hill victorian home, a photo of corn, and a photo of the Des Moines Botanical Center.

Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Convention, American Association of Bovine Practitioners. November 27-30, 1984. Des Moines, Iowa.

Editor: Eric I. Williams

Published: 1984-11-27

Front / Back Matter

General Session I

  • The Future of Food Animal Practice

    Robert H. Dunlop
    3-10
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847122

  • The Future of Food Animal Practice An Introduction to the Symposium

    John Herrick
    11
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847123

  • The Challenging Future of Food Animal Practice

    Edwin G. Robertson
    12-13
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847124

  • How I See the Future of Food Animal Practice

    Bob Bohlender
    14-15
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847125

  • A Midwestern Practitioner's View of What Is in Store for Food Animal Practice

    Keith E. Sterner
    16-17
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847127

Regulatory Session

  • Maintaining the Integrity of the Accredited Veterinarian System

    Bert W. Hawkins
    18-20
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847152

  • The Bovine Practitioner and the Licensing of Veterinary Biologics

    Bert W. Hawkins
    22-23
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847154

Short Topics

  • Factors Involved in Adverse Reactions to Bovine Biologicals

    John A. Schnackel
    24-26
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847193

  • Economics and Animal Welfare Considerations of Early Castration and Utilization of Ralgro® Implants

    John M. Bonner, Michael F. Cain
    27-32
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847195

General Session II

  • A Practical Approach to Drug Dosage for the Practitioner Introduction to the Use of Pharmacokinetics

    H. Dwight Mercer
    33-38
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847197

  • Practical Antibiotic/Sulfonamide Residue Detection

    Charles N. Dobbins, Jr.
    39-40
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847209

General Session III

  • Ostertagia Ostertagi Clinical Condition, Recognition of Disease States, and Approaches to Control through Anthelmintics and Management

    J. C. Williams, K. S. Marbury, S. W. Scheide, D. G. Luther, J. W. Knox, M. D. Kimball, T. G. Snider, III
    42-53
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847211

  • Ostertagiosis in Missouri Beef Cattle The Scenario from Calving to Feedlot

    Robert M. Corwin
    54-55
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847214

  • Dairy Herd Parasitology Current Practices and Future Possibilities

    Richard E. Bradley
    56-58
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847264

  • Bovine Parasites of Particular Importance in the Northwest

    Richard B. Wescott
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847266

General Session IV

  • Paratuberculosis Prevalence, Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment

    Richard S. Merkal
    64-66
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847268

  • Persistent Infection of Cattle with BVD Virus Recent Findings on Origin, Prevalence and Relationship to Disease

    Steven R. Bolin
    67-69
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847269

  • Bovine Leukemia Virus Infections A Continuing Cause for Concern

    M. J. Van Der Maaten, J.M. Miller
    70-74
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847270

Dairy Split Session I

  • Normal Uterine Physiology and Involution

    William W. Thatcher, Louis A. Guilbault, Maarten Drost
    75-80
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847279

  • Periparturient Events and Subsequent Fertility in Dairy Cows

    Leon D. Weaver
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847281

  • Therapy of Postpartum Uterine Infections

    Jerry D. Olson, Leslie Ball, Robert G. Mortimer
    85-88
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847282

  • Prostaglandin Therapy and the Postpartum Cow

    Harry W. Momont, Bradley E. Sequin
    89-94
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847284

Cow/Calf Feedlot Combined Session

  • Preconditioning History and Guidelines

    John Herrick
    95-96
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847305

  • Pre-Weaning and Post-Weaning Nutrition

    Danny L. Williams, John. H. Mahoney
    98-102
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847307

  • Reconditioning The Immunization Component

    Robert F. Kahrs
    103-104
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847310

  • Preconditioning Organizing, Promoting and Marketing the Program

    Kurt Wohlgemuth
    105-107
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847312

Dairy Split Session II

  • Effects of Premilking Udder Hygiene on Environmental Bacterial Contamination, Sediment, and Iodine Residue in Milk

    David M. Galton
    108-114
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847313

  • Hygienic Practices Affecting Milk Quality and Mastitis on Larger Dairies

    Robert B. Bushnell
    115-118
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847314

  • Use of Individual Cow Somatic Cell Counts and Bulk Tank Samples to Monitor Herd Mastitis Status

    William D. Hueston, Lawrence E. Heider
    119-122
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847316

  • Economics of Lactation Therapy Based on High Somatic Cell Counts

    H.N. Erb, M.P. McDermott, R.P. Natzke, F. Barnes-Pallesen, D. Bray
    123-124
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847319

  • A Practitioner's Approach to Mastitis Microbiology Acute and Subclinical

    Douglas M. Vandamme
    125-132
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847322

Combined Cow/Calf Feedlot Session

  • Heifer Spaying Kimberly Rupp Method

    Bob Bohlender
    133-135
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847325

  • Spaying Flank Method

    William McElroy
    136-138
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847326

  • Residue Avoidance or Veterinary Entrapment What Do They Want?

    Dee Griffin
    139-141
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847327

  • Fescue Toxicity Syndrome

    Duane Miksch, Garry Lacefield
    142-143
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847328

  • Clinical Considerations of Bovine Coccidiosis

    Paul G. Eness
    144-146
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847329

Split Session -- Feedlot

  • Bovine Surgery The Rumen Fistula for Treatment of Chronic Bloat

    Bruce L. Hull
    147-148
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847331

  • A BVD Wreck A Practitioner's Approach to Epidemiology

    Robert G. Stout
    149-152
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847332

  • Dipping Vat Problems in the Feedlot

    Dee Griffin
    153-154
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847333

  • Feedlot Medicine/Vaccination of Incoming Cattle

    Robert F. Kahrs
    155-156
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847335

Cow-Calf Split Session

  • The Future Use of Computers in Practice

    Jay R. Brown
    157-158
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847337

  • Our Practical Experience with the Computer

    J.D. Meller
    159-162
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847338

  • Clinical Problems Associated with Starvation in Western Beef Herds

    Marie S. Bulgin
    163-169
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847339

Practice Tips

  • A Modified Technique for Vulvar Repair in the Bovine Animal

    Stan Held
    170-171
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847340

  • Practitioner's Role in the Diagnosis of Haemophilus somnus

    Phil Geeding
    171-172
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847341

  • Treatment of Sole Abscesses of Cattle in Missouri

    Ross K. McPhail
    173
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847342

  • Ten Tips in Running a Mixed Practice with Six Veterinarians and One Million Dollar Gross

    Kenneth Fertig
    173-175
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847343

  • Innovations in Ruminant Nutrition

    Charles Olentine
    175-177
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847411

  • Some Observations on Field Use of BVD Vaccines

    Kurt Wohlgemuth
    177-178
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847344

  • On the Farm Diagnostic Procedures for Specific Toxicants

    Gavin Meerdink
    179-181
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847345

Research Summaries

  • Subclinical Coccidiosis Infection In Calves

    James E. Fox
    182-184
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847346

  • Suppression of Neutrophil Function in Bovine Respiratory Disease

    James Roth
    184-187
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847347

  • Potassium & Sodium for Dairy Cattle

    David A. Ritchie
    187-189
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847348

  • Campylobacter Fetus Bacterin

    H. A. Draayer
    189-190
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19847349