With the push for greater milk production, the risk of disease increases. The best way to avoid expensive health issues can be summed up in one word: prevention.
Effective disease prevention is based on several factors, including: (1) implementing biosecurity measures that lower the risk of disease entering the herd; (2) managing animals in a way that avoids undue stress, which can suppress the immune system and (3) vaccinating against major disease threats to enhance the immune system's ability to recognize and fight off disease threats.
The Dairy Wellness Plan provides tips and tools for building an effective respiratory, reproduction and enteric disease prevention protocol for your dairy, including protection against BVD Types 1 and 2, IBR, PI3, BRSV,
Mannheimia haemolytica (formerly known as
Pasteurella haemolytica), leptospirosis (including
hardjo-bovis), clostridial diseases, calf scours and more.
Pfizer Disease Prevention Products:
Bovi-Shield GOLD
®
CattleMaster
® GOLD™
ScourGuard
® 4KC
SPIROVAC
®
Articles:
Hardjo-bovis: Identification, Diagnostics and Control
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Scours Management Requires Comprehensive Approach
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Programs:
ScheduVAC
This dynamic, online tool allows your veterinarian to develop a customized vaccination protocol for your dairy, showing which vaccines to use and when to use them. Designed to be easily understood by you and your dairy's labor force, it can be printed for easy reference, and is easily modified as circumstances change.
Ask your veterinarian how ScheduVAC
SM can work for you.
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100-DAY CONTRACT
The 100-DAY CONTRACT
® covers all aspects of the critical period from 30 days before freshening to 70 days after freshening, with the goal of optimizing early pregnancies through proper nutrition and disease management. Carefully researched protocols for both dry and lactating cows lead to healthier animals and significantly higher pregnancy rates.
Ongoing measurement and evaluation are what really set the 100-DAY CONTRACT program apart from other dairy management systems. By benchmarking herd performance, you can monitor successes and failures and make adjustments along the way.
Check out each section of the 100-DAY CONTRACT to discover more details about this revolutionary approach to dairy wellness. These sections include suggested goals for each measurement criterion, along with critical control points (CCPs)—"red flags" to tell you when to take corrective action in your herd. When these action points are reached, it's time to sit down with your management team and reevaluate procedures.
Make a contract with your cows today.
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