Bovine Respiratory Disease Vaccination

Bovine Respiratory Disease Vaccination Australia

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) is the most common and costly beef cattle disease in the Australia.Research in the United States showed that the economic loss associated with lower gains and treatment cost for BRD infection in a 1,000 head feedlot was $13.90 per animal, not including labor and associated handling costs.

These researchers reported that the typical body weight of these livestock on entering the feedlot was 635 lb with an average on-test weight of 756 lb. The incidence of BRD in this study was 8.2%, which is similar to 8.7% previously reported in feedlots of similar size. A total of 488 head were treated for BRD (53% treated once, 34% treated twice, and 13% treated three or more times). The average day of first treatment was 40 days after entering the feedlot and 75% of the treated cattle had been treated by day 55.

The symptoms of Bovine Respiratory Disease usually develop within the first week following management or environmental stresses. Symptoms can be variable due to the many causative agents possibly involved in the disease complex. Signs include: anorexia, rapid and laboured breathing, droopy ears, hanging back from the rest of the herd, runny nose and eyes, High fever etc.

Key Benefits of Feeder Guard™
• It's a preinduction vaccination protocol to better prepare the cattle’s immune response to respiratory disease challenge at the feedlot.
• Feeder Guard™ is the first auditable preinduction vaccine protocol on off er for the Australian Feedlot Industry. This type of protocol has been available in the USA for many years and Feeder Guard™ has looked at the strengths and opportunities to improve and develop Feeder Guard™ to better fi ll the needs of the Australian grain fed beef industry.
• Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) is the greatest cause of illness to the Australian Feedlot Industry. Feeder Guard™ has the potential to reduce BRD, lower the total use of antibiotics, improve performance and enhance the profi t to the feedlotting industry.
• Feeder Guard™ is a fully audited protocol, where the grazier is invited to join protocol by the feedlot and off ered an incentive payment to follow protocol. The grazier has to undergo vaccine handling, administration and storage training, use vaccines according to protocol, maintain all records and be prepared to undergo an audit by Aus Meat to ensure the integrity of the protocol.
• It is anticipated that cattle prepared under the Feeder Guard™ protocol would attract a price premium payable by the feedlot. In excess of 60,000 head have been treated

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Phone 0732127900
Fax 0733757194

57 Fulcrum St
RICHLANDS
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About Us

Feeder Guard™ is and Australian company which has been contracted by AUS-MEAT Limited to provide third party verification services (auditing) by Elders. Feeder Guard™ is a program administered by Elders.