As a practicing veterinarian, I am often asked “What can I do to make my herd more profitable?” There can be, and are, a lot of different answers to that question but generally the answers are all geared toward more or more efficient production. That might mean fine tuning nutrition, better vaccination programs, better parasite control, better and more productive/efficient genetics, and so on, but all the answers depend on having live, healthy calves. There is a herd health p