1986

Cover image of the 20th Conference Proceedings: a herd of cattle grazing on a green, grassy knoll. Half the herd are lying down, enjoying the bright afternoon sunshine.

Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference. American Association of Bovine Practitioners. November 18-21, 1986. Louisville, Kentucky.

Editor: Eric I. Williams

Published: 1986-11-18

Front / Back Matter

General Session I

  • Trends and Demographics Affecting Bovine Practice

    J. Karl Wise
    3-7
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867513

  • Beef Economics and the Bovine Practitioner

    Donald E. Williams
    8-11
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867514

  • Dairy Industry Economics Some Implications for Bovine Practitioners

    Larry G. Hamm
    13-17
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867515

  • What the Producer Expects from His Veterinarian

    Charles McGinnis
    18-20
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867516

  • Professional Liability in Bovine Practice The Changing Scene

    Jack R. Dinsmore
    21-22
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867517

  • Idaho's Approach to Marketing Large Animal Veterinary Services

    Dr. Shelton, Dr. Risa, Dr. Glarborg
    23-24
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867523

  • The Veterinarian's Role in Profitable Cattle Production

    Kurt Wohlgemuth
    26-27
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867531

General Session II

  • Selling Your Practice to the Client

    Edwin G. Robertson
    28
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867533

  • Newsletters, Questionnaires and Phone Contacts

    J. K. Harness
    30-31
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867535

  • Getting Paid for Consultation

    Dee Griffin
    32-35
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867537

  • Marketing Veterinary Services in an Established Midwestern Dairy Practice

    Dwight E. Cochran
    36-37
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867538

  • The Modern Photocopier Its Role as a Key to More Effective Marketing for Today's Bovine Practice

    Dwight E. Cochran
    38-39
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867541

  • Dispensing and Merchandising! Why & How

    J. Harry James
    40-41
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867542

  • Marketing Dairy Herd Health

    Jenks S. Britt
    42-43
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867543

  • Bovine Practice in the Next 25 Years

    James Jarrett
    44-48
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867544

General Session III

  • Cattle Behavior and Cattle Handling

    Temple Grandin
    60-64
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867552

  • How to Conduct and Interpret Field Trials

    Hollis N. Erb
    66-69
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867553

  • Bovine Somatotropin What Veterinarians and Their Clients Need to Know in 1986

    R. D. Smith
    50-54
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867550

  • New Technologies for Manipulating Bovine Reproduction

    G. E. Seidel, Jr.
    55-58
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867551

Dairy Split Session I

  • Quality Milk Production

    David G. McClary
    70-71
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867554

  • The Strep. Agalactiae Herd An Alternate Approach

    Boyd H. Parr
    72-73
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867557

  • High Bulk Tank Bacteria Counts Without Udder Disease in Two Dairy Herds

    Charles E. Gardner
    74-75
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867558

  • Staph Aureus and Corynebacterium Pyogenes Mastitis in a Free Stall Dairy A Case Report

    Reilly Glore
    76-79
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867561

  • Interpretating Bulk Tank Somatic Cell Counts

    M. C. Thurmond
    80-81
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867566

  • Udder Hygiene in the Control of Mastitis

    J. W. Pankey
    82-83
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867568

  • Herd Mastitis Problems Caused by Unusual Pathogens

    R. J. Eberhart
    84-86
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867570

Dairy Split Session II

  • Adjusted Corrected Milk

    Ken Nordlund
    87-89
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867572

  • Engineered Management in Housing

    Robert E. Graves
    90-93
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867573

  • Trace Mineral Nutrition and Interrelationships as Applied to Dairy Cattle

    W. Jack Miller
    94-99
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867576

  • A Practitioner's Approach to Nutrition

    David I. Byers
    100-107
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867577

Dairy Split Session III

  • Disease Transmission by Embryo Transfer in Cattle

    R. A. Bowen
    108-110
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867578

  • Breeding Cows Without Estrous Detection

    R. G. Elmore
    112-113
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867579

  • Artificial Insemination Technique Needs Attention

    P. L. Senger
    114-116
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867580

  • Evaluating Herd Reproductive Status

    Norman B. Williamson
    117-121
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867581

  • Importance of Body Condition Scoring in Dairy Cattle

    R. K. Braun, G. A. Donovan, T. Q. Tran, H. O. Mohammed, D. W. Webb
    122-126
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867586

  • Using DHI Records in Reproductive Management

    Kenneth R. Butcher
    127-136
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867589

Beef Session I

  • Fescue Toxicity An Overview

    Garry D. Lacefield
    137-138
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867591

  • Fescue Toxicity Syndrome The Economics of Coping Vs. Replacing

    Richard L. Trimble
    139-142
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867593

  • Managing and Replacing Toxic Fescue

    Garry Lacefield
    143-144
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867594

  • Sampling and Testing for the Endophyte

    Garry Lacefield
    145-146
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867595

  • Animal Response to Toxic and Non-Toxic Tall Fescue

    James A. Boling
    147-150
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867596

  • Fescue Toxicosis in Commercial Cattle Feeding Operations

    Tim Jordan
    151-152
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867597

  • A Kentucky Practitioner's Experience with Fescue Toxicity

    J. L. Cole
    153-155
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867598

Beef Session II

  • Why Spay Heifers?

    Gary P. Rupp
    156-160
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867599

  • Techniques for Spaying Heifers

    John Simons, Rich Johnson
    161-164
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867600

  • Comparing Spaying Techniques and Performance of Heifers Grazing and In the Feedlot

    Alvin J. Edwards, Scott B. Laudert
    165-166
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867603

Beef Session III

  • IRM Then and Now

    Curtis W. Absher
    167-169
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867604

  • Integrated Resource Management A Review of the Production History of a Nebraska Herd

    David N. Rethorst
    170-171
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867605

Beef Session IV

  • Herd Records and Their Use in Monitoring and Improving Herd Productivity

    Gary P. Rupp, Robert W. Field
    172-177
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867606

Beef Session V

  • Is Preconditioning Doomed to Fail? An Illinois Extension Veterinarian's Viewpoint

    Jay R. Brown
    178-179
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867607

  • Is Preconditioning Doomed to Fail? A Kentucky Order Buyer's Viewpoint

    Dell King
    180-181
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867608

  • Preconditioning of Calves from the Feedyard Perspective

    Tim Jordan
    182-184
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867609

  • Is Preconditioning Doomed to Fail? A Michigan Practitioner's Viewpoint

    Arnold F. Hentschl
    185-193
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867610

Practice Tips

  • Tibial Neurectomy for the Correction of Spastic Paresis in Calves

    A. David Weaver
    194
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867611

  • Chain Hoists in Veterinary Medicine

    Gale A. DeJong
    194
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867621

  • Intravenous Catheterization for the Administration of Large Volumes of Fluid

    Don Atkinson
    195
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867619

  • Indwelling Bloat Relief Instrument

    Authur J. McIntosh
    195-196
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867620

  • Practice Tips for the "Normal" Repeat Breeder

    John Swingle
    196
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867622

  • Large Volume Blood Collection

    Donald R. Lynch
    197
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867623

  • Use of a Come Along in a Bovine Practice

    Richard W. Meirig
    197-198
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867624

  • Using Chem-Cast to Dehorn Baby Calves

    W. Mark Hilton
    198-199
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867625

  • Graphing DHIA Records to Help Motivate Dairy Clients

    W. Mark Hilton
    199
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867628

  • Chain Tie Downs

    Roland S. Jeans
    199-200
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867630

  • Bovine Practice

    Donald E. Sanders
    200
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867631

  • Colorado Modification for Complete Bovine Fetotomy

    R. G. Mortimer, L. Ball, J. D. Olson
    201
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867633

  • Use of a Buhner Needle to Place Minchev Sutures for Vaginal/Cervical Prolapse Retention

    Toby R. Hoover
    202
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867635

  • Portable Surgery Tray and Sternal Recumbency Aids to Uterine Prolapse Replacement

    Toby R. Hoover
    202
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867756

  • Pricing Embryo Transfer Services

    Jenks S. Britt
    203

  • Miscellaneous Practice Tips

    Keith E. Sterner, Donald B. Hudson
    203-204
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867637

Research Summaries

  • Bovine Mammoscopy A New Method for Evaluating and Treating Teat Obstructions

    Stephen B. Adams, Harold E. Amstutz, Phillip N. Boehm
    207-211
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867638

  • Use of Synovex-H as a Method for Androgenizing Heifers for Teaser Animals

    R. G. Mortimer, M. Gutierrez, M. Salman, J. D. Olson
    212-214
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.21423/aabppro19867639

Abstracts