Diagnosis of respiratory disease in feedlot cattle occurring after being in feedlot for 45 days

Authors

  • A. J. Edwards Department of Surgery and Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol0no23p47-48

Keywords:

cattle diseases, Diagnosis, Pneumonia, Respiratory diseases

Abstract

During 1985 eleven feedlots located in Kansas and Nebraska under direct health care programs instituted by the author, received a total of 372,175 cattle. There was a 7% morbidity rate in these cattle and a .65% mortality. Respiratory diseases accounted for 65% of the morbidity and the mortality during this period.

Of the 26,674 cattle treated in these feedlots, 33% of them had been on feed for more than 45 days and of the 2,420 animals that died, 46% of these had been in the feedlot for more than 45 days.

Cover image of the 23rd Volume of the Bovine Practitioner: a view of Stampede Park in downtown Calgary framed by one curving wing of the Scotiabank Saddledome.

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Published

1988-11-01

How to Cite

Edwards, A. J. (1988). Diagnosis of respiratory disease in feedlot cattle occurring after being in feedlot for 45 days. The Bovine Practitioner, (23), 47–48. https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol0no23p47-48

Issue

No. 23 (1988 November)

Section

Articles