Health Dollars & Sense
By Burt Rutherford
Beef Magazine
If you’ve written a check to your friendly local animal health supply house or looked at a closeout sheet on a set of high-risk calves, you know sickness reduces profitability. But how much and to what extent it affects your banker’s heartburn might be surprising.
Not only do you have the medicine cost, but sickness reduces average daily gain (ADG), carcass price and gross income, according to Clay Mathis, New Mexico State University Extension livestock specialist.
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