Transcript
A (0:04)
Hi, welcome to BCI Cattle Chat. I'm Brad White. Happy to have you with us and happy to have our crew here this morning. Morning, Dustin. Good morning, Jason.
B (0:11)
Hello, Bob.
C (0:12)
Hello everybody.
A (0:13)
And our special guest today is Cambry Schmaltz. Good morning, Cambry.
D (0:17)
Good morning. Thanks for having me.
A (0:18)
So Cambry is finishing up her degree here at Kansas State this May and she's been doing some work on a project to collect data from cow calf herds and we're looking forward to learning more from her. But just tell us a little bit about you, Kimbery.
D (0:33)
Yeah, so I originally grew up in the panhandle, Nebraska, right around Baird area. I was very fortunate to grow up on a first generation cow calf operation and background in feed yard. So that really is what sparked my interest to come here to K State and learn more about that, especially on the economic side. So getting my degree in agricultural economics and wanted to learn the numbers behind the industry a little more.
A (0:52)
Excellent. And I think you've had some great experiences both in the classroom and outside, which we'll learn more about today. We've also got a question from a listener on shipping cattle relative to this time of year, shipping cattle when they're pregnant, when is the best time to do that? And we'll dive into those. If you have a listener question for us, you can always send us an email at bcisu Edu before we get into our main topics for the day. Bob, I talked to a practitioner and I do have a question for all of you, but I talked to a practitioner the other day and he had just got back from a call where he was dealing with a Schistosomus reflexis.
C (1:32)
Yes.
A (1:32)
So the first question for you is, can you spell Schistosomus reflexis?
C (1:37)
Absolutely not. I'm sure it's spelled just like it sounds.
A (1:41)
It's spelled just like it sounds, just with some extra letters. Can you tell us what it is?
C (1:45)
Yeah. So it's an interesting, it's a birth defect that we see in cattle where if you think about the way the body is built, you know, so right down the middle of the chest, all the way down, that's the center line because, you know, bodies, human bodies, animal bodies, they're pretty symmetrical. You know, you got two kidneys, you got two lungs, same on the left and the right. Well, there's a, there's a zipper right up the middle of the chest. And for some reason in these calves that doesn't ever close. So their, their organs form, you know, their lungs and their intestines. Everything form, but it's not sealed in a sealed chest and abdomen. So basically the chest and abdomen are open. So what you've got is a calf trying to be. And they're kind of, not only that, but they're kind of turned inside out. So in fact that's a lot of
