scholarly journals Benchmarking dairy herd health status using routinely recorded herd summary data

2016 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 1298-1314 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.L. Parker Gaddis ◽  
J.B. Cole ◽  
J.S. Clay ◽  
C. Maltecca
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Dairy Herd ◽  
Herd Health ◽  
Summary Data

scholarly journals Health status and bio-security plans on pig farms

2010 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
B. Stankovic ◽  
S. Hristov ◽  
T.J. Bojkovski ◽  
N. Maksimovic
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Security Measures ◽  
Herd Health ◽  
Swine Herd ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
Prophylactic Measures ◽  
Pig Farm ◽  
Disease Spreading ◽  
Swine Disease ◽  
Security Standards

Preservation of necessary level of swine herd health status is the most important aspect of bio-security, farm production and successful welfare protection. It involves a list of bio-security measures which must be essential part of production technology, including good rearing conditions and other prophylactic measures appliance. According to previously performed investigations, a list of elements required to establish standards for bio-security for particular pig farm was created. The list includes elements related to assure spatial., microclimate and hygienic conditions for pigs rearing, care, nutrition and watering, surveillance, regrouping and transport of swine, disease outbreak control, barns equipment and production process organization which are performed by veterinarians and zootechnicians. Bio-security standards must concern necessary level of swine herd health status and organization, size and type of operation and anticipate all compulsory measures for health control and disease spreading prevention, particularly those whose outbreak must be reported. In bio-security plan structure present epidemiological situation, potential herd health and production threats, as well as possible solutions must be concerned.

scholarly journals Benchmarks and Reports for Dairy Herd Health Management of Grassland Farming in Northern Japan:the Hamanaka Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-18
Author(s):  
Ken NAKADA ◽  
Shin OIKAWA ◽  
Isamu TAKAHASHI ◽  
Manabu KUBOTA
Keyword(s):  
Health Management ◽  
Dairy Herd ◽  
Herd Health

Key issues in dairy herd health management

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-26
Author(s):  
John Remnant ◽  
◽  
James Breen ◽  
Peter Down ◽  
Chris Hudson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cows ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Dairy Herd ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Herd Health ◽  
Health Target ◽  
Cow Health

Dairy herd health management benefits dairy farmers, the environment, dairy cows and citizens. It is an important part of modern dairy farm veterinary care. Dairy herd health management is assessing, monitoring and improving the health of dairy cows at a population level. Good herd health management takes a holistic approach and is ongoing and cyclical. All members of the dairy farm team and their advisors are involved, decisions are informed by data generated by the herd. These data may come from numerous sources. The data are processed and analysed to monitor cow health, target investigations and evaluate progress. To make lasting change on farms, advisors must communicate appropriately with farm managers to understand behaviour and motivate change. This chapter reviews these aspects of dairy herd health management, giving practical suggestions on how to get started, how to incorporate herd health management into business models and how to maintain momentum.

Optimising reproductive management to maximise dairy herd health and production

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-230
Author(s):  
Norman B. Williamson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Reproductive Performance ◽  
Dairy Herd ◽  
Farm Workers ◽  
Herd Health ◽  
Breeding Programs ◽  
Reproductive Management ◽  
And Control

Reproduction is central to the operation of a dairy herd through initiating lactation and providing replacement animals and offspring for sale. This chapter outlines the steps required to detect reproductive problems and limitations in cows and herds. It then elaborates some strategies to overcome limits to reproductive health and production concentrating on detecting cows requiring attention through record monitoring, analysing herd records to monitor reproduction and identify areas that limit performance and providing strategies to deal with these limits. The main limits addressed are anoestrus and inadequate oestrus detection that are addressed through education of farm workers, aids to oestrus detection and the use of planned breeding programs to induce and control oestrus and breeding. Nutritional causes of limited reproductive performance are also considered as well as strategies to limit abortion.

scholarly journals Programmed Dairy Herd Health

1968 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 1126-1133 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Herd ◽  
Herd Health

Profile of pig farms combining high performance and low antimicrobial usage within four European countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 181 (24) ◽  
pp. 657-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Collineau ◽  
Annette Backhans ◽  
Jeroen Dewulf ◽  
Ulf Emanuelson ◽  
Elisabeth grosse Beilage ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Gastrointestinal Symptoms ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Respiratory Pathogens ◽  
Herd Health ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Technical Performance ◽  
Antimicrobial Usage ◽  
And Performance

Pig farmers are strongly encouraged to reduce their antimicrobial usage because of the rising threat from antimicrobial resistance. However, such efforts should not compromise the herd health status and performance. This study aimed to describe the profile of so-called ‘top-farms’ that managed to combine both high technical performance and low antimicrobial usage. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 227 farrow-to-finish farms in Belgium, France, Germany and Sweden. Among them, 44 farms were allocated to the top-farms group and were compared with the ’regular’ farms group in terms of farm characteristics, biosecurity and health status. Top-farms had fewer gastrointestinal symptoms in suckling pigs and fewer respiratory symptoms in fatteners, which could partly explain their reduced need for antimicrobials and higher performance. They also had higher biosecurity and were located in sparsely populated pig areas. However, 14 farms of the top-farms group were located in densely populated pig areas, but still managed to have low usage and high technical performance; they had higher internal biosecurity and more extensive vaccination against respiratory pathogens. These results illustrate that it is possible to control infectious diseases using other approaches than high antimicrobial usage, even in farms with challenging environmental and health conditions.

scholarly journals A Diagnostic and Prognostic Tool for Epidemiologic and Economic Analyses of Dairy Herd Health Management

1995 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 947-961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Enevoldsen ◽  
Jan Tind Sørensen ◽  
Iver Thysen ◽  
Charles Guard ◽  
Yrjö Tapio Gröhn
Keyword(s):  
Health Management ◽  
Dairy Herd ◽  
Herd Health ◽  
Prognostic Tool ◽  
Economic Analyses
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