Carabao & Cow Healthcare Services

Service Description

Several beef cattle management practices are capable of increasing enterprise profitability through increasing animal productivity, enhancing animal value, and/or decreasing cost of production. Animal disease results in economic loss through mortality, treatment expenses, and lost performance or productivity. An understanding of the economic impact of both clinical and subclinical diseases is important to developing a strategic herd health management program. Although the costs associated with death loss, with cattle that are culled or "railed" (marketed prematurely), and with direct treatment expenses are easy to calculate, the hidden or indirect costs of disease, such as decreased performance and productivity or impaired development, are much more difficult to estimate. Management decisions generally impact animal health through influencing susceptibility or resiliency to health challenges, or through influencing the frequency and magnitude of exposure to such challenges.