Dairy cattle can get the same diseases and external/internal parasites as beef cattle, but some are more common in dairy cattle than beef cattle. Common diseases include:
- Mastitis
- Ketosis
- Milk Fever
- Foot Rot
- Bloat
- Displaced abomasum
- Cattle Lice
- Coccidiosis
- Anaplasmosis
- Vibrosis
- Blackleg
- Anthrax
- Shipping Fever
- Warts
- Calf Scours
- Ringworm
- Pneumonia
Pnuemonia/shipping fever is a very common malady, especially among younger weaned calves.
Mastitis, Milk Fever, Ketosis, and foot problems like Foot rot and Founder.
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Neelesh Sharma has written: 'Production diseases of dairy animals' -- subject(s): Dairy cattle, Cattle, Metabolism, Parturition, Diseases
Leonard Dolan has written: 'Brucellosis control on dairy farms' -- subject(s): Dairy cattle, Brucellosis in cattle, Diseases
Carlos A. Risco has written: 'Dairy production medicine' -- subject(s): Dairy cattle, Dairy farming, Diseases, Dairying
Donald Robert Lingard has written: 'Epizootiologic studies of Q fever in Washington dairy cattle' -- subject(s): Q fever, Dairy cattle, Diseases
Dairy cattle.
Norman S. Barron has written: 'The dairy farmer's veterinary book' -- subject(s): Dairy cattle, Diseases
Milk cattle are also called Dairy cattle or Dairy cows.
Dairy cattle like Holsteins, Brown Swiss and Jerseys.
Dairy reproduction is the breeding and milking process of dairy cattle for the purpose of milk production.
Raymond Brown Becker has written: 'Dairy cattle breeds' -- subject(s): Breeding, Cattle, Dairy cattle, Dairy cattle breeds, History
Dairy cattle
So with 80 head of cattle, we have a 1:3 ratio of dairy to beef, respectively. That translates to: for every head of dairy cattle there are three beef cattle. Since, mathematically, 80 total head of cattle with a 1:3 ratio don't really work out to nice, round numbers, we will have to work with fractions and such. 1:3 ratio can be converted to a fraction: 1/3. 1/3=0.3333333... So, with 80 head of cattle, we find the number of dairy cattle: 80 x (1/3) = 26.66666666.... Which we could round off to 26 dairy cattle. Since we have 80 total head, we subtract to find how many beef cattle are in the herd: 80 - 26 = 54. So the answer is thus: If there are 80 head of cattle, and the ratio of dairy to beef cattle is 1:3, then there are 26 dairy cattle and 54 beef cattle.