title: pro-Q: Auswirkungen eines Bestandesbetreuungsprojektes auf  Eutergesundheit, Antibiotikaeinsatz, Nutzungsdauer und Milchleistung
creator: Notz, Christophe
creator: Klocke, Dr. Peter
creator: Walkenhorst, Dr. Michael
creator: Maeschli, Dr. Ariane
creator: Staehli, Pamela
creator: Ivemeyer, Silvia
subject:  Dairy cattle
subject:  Health and welfare
description: Since 2003, the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) is realizing a herd  health management programme (“pro-Q” project) focussing on udder health and the  use of homeopathic based treatment and prevention. Aims of the project are: (1) to  reduce antibiotic mastitis treatments, (2) to optimize udder health and (3) to improve  longevity, measured as averaged herd lactation number. The farms get expert advice  on prevention and treatment at herd- and animal-level. After 2 years, treatment recordings  of the 78 investigated farms showed that antibiotic mastitis therapies were  reduced from 37 to 26 treatments per 100 cows and year (equals a reduction of 28%).  The mean herd lactation number increased significantly by 0.2 lactations from 3.3 to  3.5 lactations per cow. Udder health remained constant over all farms during 2 years:  theoretical bulk milk cell counts averaged constantly at approximately 180'000  cells/ml.
date: 2009
type: Conference paper, poster, etc. 
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://orgprints.org/14476/1/Notz_14476.pdf
identifier: Notz, Christophe; Klocke, Dr. Peter; Walkenhorst, Dr. Michael; Maeschli, Dr. Ariane; Staehli, Pamela and Ivemeyer, Silvia (2009) pro-Q: Auswirkungen eines Bestandesbetreuungsprojektes auf Eutergesundheit, Antibiotikaeinsatz, Nutzungsdauer und Milchleistung. 10. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau, Zürich, 11.-13. Februar 2009.
relation: http://orgprints.org/14476/