Reducing Scours with the "Sandhills Calving System"

From "Forage Minutes"
by Bruce Anderson
Extension Forage Specialist
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
University of Nebraska


As calving season progresses, calving pastures start to get beat up and calves start getting scours. To prevent both problems, stay tuned for one simple solution.

What do you get when you have a full herd of cows in one calving pasture with baby calves ranging from one day to forty-one days old? For many folks, you get calf scours. Scours can be reduced, though, by subdividing calving pasture and properly moving cows through them.