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of heifers to allow them to calve a
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2.5 REFERENCES Al-Chaer, E. D. & Tr
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Panivivat, R., Kegley, E. B., Penni
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Table 2.2: List of exclusions used
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Table 2.4: The lsmeans ± S.E. of t
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Figure 2.1: Timeline describing tri
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Proportion of calves performing beh
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in a lower rate of vocalizations an
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sites. During the summer months bot
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treatment and weight gain category.
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pre-weaning calf starter intake, an
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Calves spent a total of 13 ± 6 (me
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calves were still allowed access to
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It was hypothesized that the more t
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calves to consume sufficient calf s
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Table 3.1: Descriptive list of obse
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Number of steps per day 7000 6000 5
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Number of lying bouts per day 35 30
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4.2.5 Data Collection Calf starter
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4.3 RESULTS enrolment. On average,
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4.3 DISCUSSION There was no effect
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4.4 REFERENCES Chua, B., E. Coenen,
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Steps per day 2500 2000 1500 1000 5
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Appendix 4.1: Scoring sheet used fo
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positive for M. bovis and 4 differe
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feedlots (Van Donkersgoed, 1992). I
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protocol included the identificatio
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(cases) and two calves closest in a
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No statistical analysis was perform
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5.4.3 Growth Three calves returned
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5.4.4 Testing for Mycoplasma Of the
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may be an early sign of respiratory
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small number of unilateral ear droo
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evaluated for efficacy and carefull
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5.6 REFERENCES Biddle, M. K., L. K.
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USDA. 2007. Dairy 2007, part II: Ch
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Table 5.2: Incidence and median age
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Table 5.4: Breakdown of the number
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6.1 ABSTRACT Bovine respiratory dis
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with bovine viral diarrhea (BVD). O
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6.3.3 Outcome Measures All calves w
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tests, or multiple partial F-tests,
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The effect of treatment on height a
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this study involved continuing with
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is important to emphasize that the
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6.7 REFERENCES J. Carroll and N.E.
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Table 6.1: Disease variables consid
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Table 6.3: Least squares means ( ±
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CHAPTER 7: THE IMPACT OF BOVINE RES
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7.2 INTRODUCTION Bovine respiratory
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Age at First Calving Since age at f
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The excluded source farm resulted i
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of calves with BRD60 survived to fi
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BRD before 6 months of age decrease
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BRD following movement to group hou
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calves with BRD60 were 1.5 (95% CI:
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7.7 REFERENCES Correa, M. T., C. R.
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Table 7.1: Calving Ease Scoring Sys
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Table 7.5: Proportion of calves sur
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Table 7.7: Producers primary reason
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Table 7.9: Effect of BRD60 on calvi
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Table 7.11: Distribution of heifers
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Figure 7.2: Difference in least squ
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Figure 7.4: Time to event analysis
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CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE R
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Heifers with poor post-weaning grow
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strategic antimicrobial use was met
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Specifically, How can disease sever
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Does transportation, initial social