E. coli has been an issue in several nurseries across the United States. Scours, death loss, and poor gain have all been issues that producers with affected herds have had to deal with. In todayโs roundtable talk, Dr. Dean Boyd, Dr. Ken Mooney, and Dr. Kathryn Price, all discuss different methods for identifying the source of infection as well as potential nutritional solutions to help ameliorate the negative effects caused by E. coli infection in nursery barns.
“๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ช๐จ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฎ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ต. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ฏ.” – ๐๐ฟ. ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐๐ฑ