General
- Biosecurity, sanitation, disinfection and risk management.
- Laboratory tests and interpretation of laboratory results.
- Prevention, control and monitoring systems of diseases.
- Rearing young stock: How to improve the health and vitality in calf management.
- Sustainable production: How to reduce the use of antimicrobials in the dairy industry.
Modern Dairy Health Management
- Udder health: Surveillance and timely on-farm adjustments can prevent (sub)clinical, chronic and/or persistent mastitis cases.
- Claw health: Energy, proteins, fatty acids, mineral, trace mineral and vitamin content of the ration, as well as the infection risk and the pressure, load on the claws.
- Feeding and Metabolism: Optimize the use of minerals to bring balance between cost and return on investment.
- Infectious disease control: Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVDV), BoHV1 (IBR), Paratuberculosis and Leptospirosis.
Customer experience
“Speakers with great knowledge and experience, overall course was good, city of Deventer excellent.”
During the training programmes on Bovine Respiratory Disease, Sheep Health and Disease and Dairy Udder Health training participants, mostly veterinarians of an advanced level, had their origin in Egypt, Lebanon, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Uganda and Nigeria.
During the BRD training the main focus was on Mycoplasma bovis and bovine respiratory pathogens. The topics of the sheep training varied from respiratory disease to gastrointestinal parasites and liver fluke. After two days of interactive and lively theory, the participants went out for a practical, hands-on farm visit to the island of Texel. Texel is well known as a magnificent sheep island, home to the famous Texel breed.
The advanced Dairy Udder Health Course offered state-of-the art scientific input on transition management, udder health control programs, immunology of the udder, (robotic) milking and the mammary micro biome. Practical implementation of the theory was offered by the farm visit as part of this program. The participants went back home with useful scientific and practical information, that could be directly used on-farm the day after their return home.
