Dairy Production Medicine (Risco/Dairy Production Medicine) || Monitoring Health and Looking for Sick Cows

✍ Scribed by Risco, Carlos A.; Retamal, Pedro Melendez

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
• Year: 2011
• Weight: 464 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0813815398
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470960554.ch4

✦ Synopsis

A major goal for transition cow management is to keep a dairy cow healthy during early postpartum (the fi rst 3 weeks after calving). Monitoring postpartum health involves the examination of cows in early postpartum by trained farm personnel using health parameters to identify sick cows and provide treatment. Veterinarians have an opportunity to expand their services to dairy producers by implementing training programs for farm employees to look for sick cows using time -effective techniques to identify animals in the early stages of disease and allow for routine treatment.