Advice on getting on top of scour

摘要

The direct cost of treating scour can be easily determined from treatment costs and losses, but the overall indirect losses - including reduced growth efficiency across the wider group and, therefore, slower finishing - are often underestimated.An Adas study in 2012 estimated that an average outbreak of scour in a 100-cow suckler herd costs ￡5,794 when the implications of calf mortality, treatment and growth reduction are taken into account.