Background: Over the last four decades the field of dairy cattle production has changed significantly. Classical veterinary skills have been recommended to be integrated with skills such as communication, marketing, and farm economics in herd health management. Within the last six years, the law regarding veterinary herd health has changed in Denmark. Herd health management programs have been i...

Risk management of paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) in a dairy herd requires an assessment of the likelihood of paratuberculosis occurring in the herd, the economic impact of paratuberculosis on the herd and an evaluation of measures that can be taken to reduce this likelihood and impact.The likelihood of paratuberculosis occurring in the herd is related to the regional herd-level prevalence ...

background: information regarding the metabolic hormones in different metabolic states of high producing dairy cows can aid high producing herds to manage and resolve the metabolic and production problems. furthermore, it can be considered as a tool to evaluate metabolic status of dairy cows. herd managers can also evaluate the energy input-output relationships by assessing the metabolic profil...

While the goal of African pastoralists is health and longevity of herd and household, some of their management strategies appear to counter this long-term goal. Pastoralists in the far north region of Cameroon, for example, do not always remove chronically sick animals from their herds, even though chronic diseases, such as brucellosis, are contagious and have the potential to cause fertility p...

Finding ways of increasing the efficiency of production systems is a key issue of sustainability. System efficiency is based on long-term individual efficiency, which is highly variable and management driven. To study the effects of management on herd and individual efficiency, we developed the model simulation of goat herd management (SIGHMA). This dynamic model is individual-based and represe...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate associations among herd infection status, herd management practices, and familiarity of the herd manager with Mycobacterium paratuberculosis (Johne's disease) or prior disease diagnosis in that herd to support development of Johne's disease-control programs. DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional study. SAMPLE POPULATION 1,004 US dairies, each with > or = 30 cows, rep...