John Richeson typifies BRD as the most difficult mammalian diseases to manage in the world. He shared a more focused approach to managing feeder cattle risk and six things feeders can look for to identify high-risk calves.
Targeted metaphylaxis is using certain metrics to try to predict whether an animal is going to be at greater risk for BRD, so we can make individual animal decisions chute side very rapidly” – Tom Richeson
Source: BEEF, December 2020. Link. Richeson outlined these things to identify high-risk calves at receiving:
- Bulls versus steers
- Existing ear tag
- Body weight relative to cohorts
- Rectal temperature
- Lung asculations
- Bio-marker assisted variables