Herd Health Management and Animal Welfare: A Review
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2023-09
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The Association of Mastitis
Abstract
Livestock is the backbone of agriculture farming and maximization of profit is one of the main interests. Success of livestock farming is mainly associated with the management of farm with respect to nutrition, housing, health and different factors related to it. Economic performance depends upon productive and reproductive performance of the animals. Herd health management is the method to prevent or eliminate diseases, improving health status, welfare and productive performance of dairy animals at farm level. Herd health management involves regular contact with the dairy farmers and collection of data and its analysis so that problems related to management, disease and production of the animal can be analyzed frequently. As a result of large scale of dairy farming and technological development, interest shifted from the treatment of single animal to control diseases in a group. The main aim of herd health management is associated with reducing the productive losses by improving management practices and the health status of the dairy animals. This includes routine farm visit, record keeping, health checkup, deworming, vaccination, treatment, claw trimming, udder health management, sanitization and biosecurity measures. Health and productivity of the farm can be improved by proper management practices and it also helpful in enhancing the welfare of the animals.
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Herd-Health, Bio-security, Udder Health, Welfare, Vaccination
Citation
Ramakant, Sarkar T.K., Verma A.K., Thakur V., Maurya P.K., Gautam S., Varun V.K., Singh A. . Herd Health Management and Animal Welfare: A Review . Journal of Animal Research. 2023 Sep; 13(5): 643-651