Dairymans Choice 
A Probiotic for Dairy Cows & Calves, available in a paste or premix. 
The benefits include:  optimum rumen fermentation, stimulates natural digestive bacteria, produces a higher milk yeild, earlier peak milk production, and improves feed intake, weight gain and feed efficiency in calves.  For more information please click here

Stockmans Choice
A Probiotic for Beef Cows, Calves and Sheep, available in a paste or premix.   
The benefits include:  optimum rumen fermentation, stimulates natural digestive bacteria, produces a higher milk yeild, earlier peak milk production, and improves feed intake, weight gain and feed efficiency in calves.  For more information please click here

Prestige Mineral Program
This program features two top of the line minerals that are designed with a good portion of the trace minerals in chelated form. They contain excellent nutrient levels, and are a palatable mineral with good acceptance by all livestock. These can be used in your regular mineral program, but should be used in situations where demands on the animal are higher. This includes calves at weaning, cows in the last month of pregnancy, cows nursing calves, bulls being feed either for sale or for breeding, animals being pushed for maximum weight gains, and anywhere a nutrient deficiency is seen that could result in performance problems. Two minerals are available and should be selected based on the feeding regime that you are using.  
Vantage Mineral
This program has two minerals that look similar in their makeup to the prestige minerals, however they contain inorganic trace minerals and as a result are priced more economicaly. They contain execellent nutrient levels, are very palatable, and will be fresh product so you do not have to worry about vitamin levels being gone. They will be used as part of a regular feeding program for both cows and calves. There are also two different mineral options here as well.
Resflor
Revlor XS
Many new vaccine options

To all Dairy Clients:
This is the time of the year for feed changes, particularly roughages. The rumen bacteria must adjust to this change. Dairyman's choice can help this adjustment as it stimulates and maintains optimum rumen fermentation. This is economical and can be added to any dairy program. Ask Albert. 1-888-773-5773. 

Lameness is an economical loss in prosperous times, but it’s even more serious when times are tough: it shows no mercy. The complexity of the issues that cause lameness will not allow me to explain everything in one article – perhaps some other time I can go into more detail in a special series. Right now, though, I will give you a short overview on a good approach for curing and preventing lameness caused by warts (Digital Dermatitis).

1. Proper diagnosis. It is of great importance that we know what is causing our case of lameness. To do this properly, you should lift the foot and check for sore areas in the sole or skin. Find a way to do this procedure safely and easily by using a chute: make it fun. Gather some basic understanding about the various hoof problems and recognize them. The purpose of a proper diagnosis is to let you apply proper treatment and prevention protocols.

      I would like to make this clearer by giving you an example:       

If a cow is down in milk and your employee calls you about it, would you immediately call the veterinarian to perform a DA surgery? Of course not – I’m sure you would first ask some specific questions to allow you to come to some sort of conclusion (e.g., does she have a high temperature? when did it start? is she still eating? how is the manure? etc.).

Lameness detection is no different.

2. Individual cow care. Now let’s say we have figured out the cause of lameness and the animal is in our chute. The purpose of this approach is to emphasize that you cannot depend only on a footbath to cure a lame cow. It is too risky to depend on a footbath when you haven’t been monitoring the foot all along. What if the problem is not cured after 3 weeks of bathing? Then you are still at square one; you’ve lost a lot of time and money; and you still have to lift the foot. Click here for the whole article…

Animals should be vaccinated against common viruses for many reasons:
      * Less treatment becomes necessary 
      * Economic prevention occurs
      * It becomes easier to treat animals when they do become
        ill
      * More time is saved for you the producer 
      * Increased growth is seen as long as no low-grade infection
        sets in 
      * It often becomes easier to sell vaccinated animals
      * It ensures humane care of the animals
Also remember, it is important to develop your vaccination program based on your herd and their needs, not necessarily on what your neighbour does. 

**We offer Ultrasound preg-checking as well as Emergency Services in the Swift Current and Saskatoon areas. See our Treatments section for more details.**

Semen-testing Rams:
Now is the time to semen-test rams. 1/10 means no semen/poor quality/very marginal. Knowing is an excellent management tool. Once the ewes have been exposed, pregnancy-testing to determine number of lambs also serves an effective administrative method. Karen Bannow will now be working with us and  the Veterinary Association will be giving us guidelines. Karen can be contacted at (306) 726-7465 or at the Sheep Board at (306) 933-5200.