Bom Harris, DVM
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Healthy hooves are critical to comfort, health and production in beef cattle. When cattle cannot move comfortably, they cannot graze...
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Bom Harris, DVM
- Mar 29
- 1 min
Raising Consumer Confidence with BQA Certification
Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) is an important national program that helps raise consumer confidence in beef by training producers in BMP.
Bom Harris, DVM
- Mar 29
- 2 min
Cattle Inventory Management and Your Bottom Line
Expenses are up across all of the economy and agriculture is no exception. Whether beef or dairy, the largest expense for most cattle owners
Bom Harris, DVM
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Tube Feeding Calves
Poor appetite caused by sickness or injury can quickly lead to life-threatening malnutrition and dehydration in young calves. If a sick calf
Bom Harris, DVM
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2 min
Veterinary Telehealth: New Guidelines for Our Comprehensive Services
Veterinary Telehealth Practice Guidelines
Bom Harris, DVM
- Sep 28, 2021
- 3 min
Diagnosing and Treating Down Cows
Down cows, cows who are unable to rise, are one of the most frustrating emergencies facing cattle veterinarians. While occasionally cows...
Cassie Snyder, DVM
- Sep 28, 2021
- 2 min
Body Condition Scoring Your Beef Cow Herd
Body condition scoring (BCS) is a key measurement to track trends in a herd and evaluate individual animal health. It is especially...
Bom Harris, DVM
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
Biosecurity: Keeping Your Herd Safe
Expanding a herd with new animals can be exciting, whether it is a new breeding bull, young stock to add genetic diversity to the herd,...
Bom Harris, DVM
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
Recognizing Neurologic Disease in Ruminants
Neurological diseases are diseases of the brain, spine and the nerves that connect them. A similar array of neurologic diseases affect...
Bom Harris, DVM
- Mar 26, 2021
- 3 min
Celebrating Women in Agriculture
Women have a been a critical component of agriculture since the beginning of time.
Bom Harris, DVM
- Mar 17, 2021
- 1 min
Not Too Soon to Start on Fly Control!
Many beef producers are more mindful of complete insect control in late winter due to the threat posed by the disease Theileria, which is...
Cassie Snyder, DVM
- Mar 17, 2021
- 3 min
Low Stress Cattle Handling
Stress is one of the largest contributors to disease and injury in cattle. Life events such as castration, weaning, vaccination and...
Cassie Snyder, DVM
- Mar 17, 2021
- 2 min
Local Plant Toxicities of Livestock
Some of the most beautiful and luscious plants can have deadly consequences for our livestock. These are the plant toxicities seen most...
Bom Harris, DVM
- Jan 6, 2021
- 2 min
Tick-Borne Disease Raises Concerns for Virginia
Unfortunately, the tick-borne cattle disease caused by Theileria orientalis has continued to spread through Virginia this year. We saw a...
Cassie Snyder, DVM
- Jan 6, 2021
- 2 min
Four Tips for Livestock Injections
Giving injections is a routine and necessary skill for livestock ownership. Many vaccines, as well as most treatments for sick animals,...
Bom Harris, DVM
- Jan 6, 2021
- 1 min
Spring is Baby Season
While it feels like winter has just begun, our spring herds of sheep, goats and cattle will bring new life into the world before we know...
Bom Harris, DVM
- Sep 1, 2020
- 2 min
Battling Pinkeye Outbreaks
A long, cool spring in our area certainly led to a late fly season, but these pests are going strong now. In spite of a relatively mild...
Cassie Snyder, DVM
- Sep 1, 2020
- 2 min
Weak Calf Syndrome and the Madigan Squeeze
If you’ve ever experienced the great sense of relief that follows delivering a calf after a difficult calving, you may have also...
Bom Harris, DVM
- Mar 1, 2020
- 2 min
Another Hard Winter
It is difficult to believe, after the drought last summer and fall, that we are faced with a muddy, wet winter for the second year...
Bom Harris, DVM
- Feb 27, 2020
- 1 min
New Tick Brings New Disease to Virginia
The Longhorn tick was first identified in Virginia in 2017. Unfortunately, it has brought with it a challenging new disease affecting...