Herd health
Evaluation of the impact of a Herd Health and Production Management programme in organic dairy cattle farms: a process evaluation approach
... (2) herd health monitoring activities, (3) implementation of practices and (4) evaluation of the outcome (Brand et al ...animal health planning processes has been identi fi ed as a promising way to ...
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Opinions and practices of veterinarians and dairy farmers towards herd health management in the UK
... Where veterinarians perceive to have a range of topics recurring during their farm visits, adequately representing the holistic approach of herd health management, the farmers’ frequency of discussed top- ...
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Herd health status and management practices on 16 Irish suckler beef farms
... All farmers who tested purchased livestock for the presence of BVDV did so as a result of programme par- ticipation. This also occurred before the voluntary phase of the national eradication programme [33]. Considering ...
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Disease Recording Systems and Herd Health Schemes for Production Diseases
... to herd health schemes. The health status of Swedish herds with pro- duction of finishers is monitored by means of clinical observations and compilations of meat inspection ...the health ...
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Welfare benchmarking and herd health plans on organic dairy farms (OF0343)
... to herd health and ...animal health and ...major herd health problem, their initial reactions were of shock and disbelief at the percentage of their cows that were classified as lame on ...
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Testing new dairy cattle for disease can boost herd health, cut costs
... the herd of origin’s disease status, and less than 20% did any testing of animals they purchased (Hoe and Ruegg ...require health testing for new cattle, except for mastitis detection (Dalton et ...minimal ...
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Variation of serum selenium concentrations in German sheep flocks and implications for herd health management consultancy
... The widespread presence of subclinical Se deficiency in German sheep flocks was quantified by the presented data. The marked high intra-flock variation of serum Se concen- tration underlines the need for individual ...
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Communication in production animal medicine: modelling a complex interaction with the example of dairy herd health medicine
... of herd health status, but is also involved in a different kind of communication process with his ...the herd and long-term strategies to improve herd health and ...
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The marketing of herd health and production management services on Dutch dairy farms: perceptions of dairy farmers and their veterinary surgeons
... From the year 2000 onwards, a mandatory system will apply to farmers in The Netherlands. The “Quality Chain Milk” system specifies how milk should be produced and harvested (Brouwer and Franse, 1997). Non-participating ...
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Imbedding HACCP principles in dairy herd health and production management: case report on calf rearing
... During daily work, or in the framework of herd health (HH) and production management programmes (PM) both farmers and veterinarians are dealing with risk assessment. In order to optimise on-farm processes, ...
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A mixed methods inquiry: How dairy farmers perceive the value(s) of their involvement in an intensive dairy herd health management program
... the herd level varia- bles describing production, health and ...and health [7], per- haps because it is complex, context-related, and contains elements that cannot be addressed with the research ...
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Hock lesions in dairy cows in freestall herds: a cross-sectional study of prevalence and risk factors
... one herd with a prevalence of 100% mild ...the herd and hous- ing-related, 3 in the management-related, and 5 in the herd health-related factors sub-model; Additional files 1 and ...the ...
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Farm characteristics and management routines related to cow longevity: a survey among Swedish dairy farmers
... investigated herd characteristics and management routines were associated with average cow ...using herd health advisory services shortened the average longevity, while using breeding advisory ...
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Veterinary decision making in relation to metritis - a qualitative approach to understand the background for variation and bias in veterinary medical records
... the herd health programme are primarily focused on case-related problems (at the level of the individual cow), hence lack focus on potential subsequent use and validity of their clinical records in a ...
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The influence of farm and herd factors on the health status of organic dairy cattle under low concentrate feeding considering an assessment tool for siterelated breeding
... and herd factors on the health status of Swiss organic dairy cattle and to evaluate if an existing estimation tool is suitable to express im- pacts of not-site-related breeding on herd health ...
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Reproductive management in dairy cows - the future
... dairy herd health management include the significant increase in herd/farm size, quota removal (within Europe) and the increase in technologies to aid in dairy cow reproductive ...cow herd ...
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Farm economic thinking and the genetic improvement of fertility in northern beef herds
... and herd characteristics for the hypothetical property in the Fitzroy NRM region were informed by recent industry surveys and research relevant to the region (McGowan et ...breeding herd. The breeding ...
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A survey of management practices on Irish dairy farms with emphasis on risk factors for Johne’s disease transmission
... into herd demographics [36] and risk factors associated with introduction and transmission of JD and testing JD positive on Irish dairy farms have pre- viously been conducted ...larger herd size [38], ...
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Paratuberculosis sero-status and milk production, SCC and calving interval in Irish dairy herds
... The effects of paratuberculosis infection on milk yield are very inconsistent, varying between increased yield in infected cows (Johnson et al. 2001), no significant effect (McNab et al. 1991) and up to a 24% reduction ...
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Characteristics of the dairy goat primary sector at the Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil
... The Brazilian and, by extension, the Fluminense societies passed through great modifications during the 171 years since the first registry about dairy goat presence as a farm animal, as we could depict from Pinheiro Jr. ...
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