The Dairy Health Blackbelt Podcast - Melinda Kovacs: Beef-on-Dairy Crossbred Health and Growth | Ep. 47

In this episode of The Dairy Health Blackbelt Podcast, Melinda Kovacs, MSc graduate student from the University of Guelph, explains how beef-on-dairy crossbred calves compare to purebred Holsteins in health, growth, and carcass performance. Her retrospective study followed calves from birth to harvest, revealing lower disease incidence and higher weight gains in crossbreds. Listen now on all major platforms!

What you'll learn:  

• Crossbred calf disease resilience
• Treatment differences by breed
• Rearing phase weight gains
• Feedlot harvest weight advantage

Meet the guest:

Melinda Kovacs is an MSc graduate in Animal Biosciences from the University of Guelph, where her research focused on health outcomes, growth performance, and carcass traits of beef-on-dairy crossbred calves. Her work was recently published in the Journal of Dairy Science. 

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