Pipestone Veterinary Services News

As the PRRS’ year is coming to an end, Pipestone’s, Dr. Joel Nerem, is crossing his fingers.  “We’ve experienced what I consider to be a very successful year in minimizing PRRS outbreaks.”  With everyone’s attention drawn to the latest PEDv epidemic, PRRS has been out of the spotlight.  Regardless, PRRS...

In the year since Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus (PEDv) was confirmed in the United States, pork producers, veterinarians, researchers and many others have been working diligently to find ways to prevent the virus from entering herds, especially sow herds. While PEDv has been reported in other countries over the years...

With the cash hog market run up, volatility in the futures market, and the unknown marketing hole created from PEDv, it definitely makes for interesting times.  The key for hog producers to take advantage of the situation and to maximize profitability is to focus on margin over feed cost.  Right...

On Friday May 16th, twenty four Pipestone employees woke up bright and early to make their way to The Banquet in Sioux Falls to serve breakfast.  The Banquet is a volunteer and donations based program, and every year, Pipestone is humbled with the chance to serve.  “It’s great to be...

This disease can be a most troublesome disease of sheep and particularly goats. It is generally a disease of young animals. In the ideal world, an animal is minimally exposed and develops immunity without clinical symptoms. In the real world, the animal often develops clinical symptoms and depending on severity may require treatment. It is...

All right you have bugged me often enough I will take another shot at it. The questions just keep coming, indicating to me there are a lot of unsolved problems. My sheep are wormy, they have bottle jaw, some are scouring and a few are dying and a whole lot more don’t look...

It is hard for me to realize that spring has already sprung here in the upper Midwest. We still have frozen hydrants and snow in the wind breaks. I receive some calls from southern U.S. and realize it’s probably time to think about worms and deworming, so I have included...

Tetanus: Recently I have received many calls about tetanus antitoxin. One of the recent calls the producer had two lambs down and a third dead as the result of using tetanus antitoxin. Folks, I can’t make it anymore plain than this, more lambs will die of antiphylactic shock from antitoxin...

By Dr. J.D.Bobb Successful weaning of your lamb crop requires planning that starts several weeks ahead of the expected wean date. We recommend that lambs be weaned at 60-70 days of age. The lambs should be well-adjusted to eating creep and drinking water by this age. The creep ration should...