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Effects of health and welfare planning on the use of antibiotics and udder health in European dairy farms

Ivemeyer, S.; Smolders, G.; Brinkmann, J.; Gratzer, E.; Hansen, B. ; Henriksen, B.I.F.; Huber, J.; Leeb, C.; March, S.; Mejdell, C.M.; Roderick, S.; Stöger, E.; Vaarst, M. ; Whitstance, L.K.; Winckler, C. and Walkenhorst, M. (2011) Effects of health and welfare planning on the use of antibiotics and udder health in European dairy farms. In: Hogeveen, H. and Lam, T.J.G.M. (Eds.) Udder Health and Communication - Proceedings of the international mastitis conference, Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 69-76.

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Summary

To improve the sustainability of dairy production it is essential to establish practices that reduce medicine use whilst safeguarding or improving herd health and productivity. Aiming at minimising medicine use through animal health and welfare planning (AHWP), 111farms in 6 countries were monitored as part of the wide CORE Organic lic ANIPLAN project. For this purpose, the number of udder treatments with antibiotics was recorded. Somatic cell score (SCS) served as an indicator of udder health, and milk yield and average Iactation number were calculated at the farm Ievel from milk recording data. Treatment and milk recording data were collected for a one year period before and after a first farm visit. AHWP was carried out either in stable schools or using one-to-one-advice. Generallinearmodels for repeated measures revealed a decrease in udder treatments with antibiotics over all farms (P=0.004). SCS improved significantly over all farms (P=0.025), whilst milk yield and average Iactation number remained unchanged (P>0.05). Choosing tudder health' as AHWP focus area (58% of the farmers) did not further improve the parameters investigated. The implementation of an AHWP process can be regarded as a feasible approach to improve udder health and minimise medicine use without impairment of productivity.


EPrint Type:Conference paper, poster, etc.
Type of presentation:Paper
Keywords:minimising medicine use, organic dairy cows, somatic, cell score treatments, Tiergesundheit, Faktoren der Tiergesundheit, Mensch-Tier-Beziehung
Agrovoc keywords:
Language
Value
URI
English
dairy cows
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_26767
English
udder health
http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24261
Subjects: Animal husbandry > Production systems > Dairy cattle
Animal husbandry > Health and welfare
Research affiliation: European Union > CORE Organic > ANIPLAN
Austria > Univ. BOKU Wien
Austria > FiBL Austria
Austria > Univ. VMU Wien
Switzerland > FiBL - Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland > Animal > Animal health
Germany > University of Göttingen > Research Group Animal Husbandry - Vechta
Denmark > AU - Aarhus University > AU, DJF - Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Netherlands > Wageningen University & Research (WUR) > Animal Sciences Group ASG
Norway > NMBU - Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Norway > Bioforsk - Norwegian Institute for Agriculture and Environmental Research
UK > Duchy College
ISBN:978-90-8686-185-9
Related Links:http://www.fibl.org/de/schweiz/forschung/tiergesundheit.html
Deposited By: Ivemeyer, Silvia
ID Code:19962
Deposited On:09 Dec 2011 16:59
Last Modified:22 Jul 2021 09:33
Document Language:English
Status:Published
Refereed:Peer-reviewed and accepted

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