creators_name: Notz, Christophe
creators_name: Klocke, Peter
creators_name: Walkenhorst, Michael
creators_name: Maeschli, Ariane
creators_name: Staehli, Pamela
creators_name: Ivemeyer, Silvia
type: conference_item
datestamp: 2009-04-14
lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:40:57
metadata_visibility: show
title: pro-Q: Auswirkungen eines Bestandesbetreuungsprojektes auf
Eutergesundheit, Antibiotikaeinsatz, Nutzungsdauer und Milchleistung
ispublished: pub
subjects: 1dairy
subjects: 7animalhealth
full_text_status: public
keywords: Milchvieh, Eutergesundheit, Antibiotikaminimierung, Nutzungsdauer, Milchleistung, Homöopathie
abstract: 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
date_type: published
refereed: yes
citation: 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.
document_url: http://orgprints.org/14476/1/Notz_14476.pdf