Utilisation of records to manage health

Date: 08 June ‘05; 8:30 - 12:30 hours
Chairperson: Geers (B)

Theatre

• The link between animal health planning and record keeping for UK farm assurance schemes (Butterworth, A.)
• New behaviour based developments to collect health information in dairy cattle farming (Winckler, C.)
• Health and welfare management of pigs based on slaughterline records (Velarde, A., E. Fàbrega and X. Manteca)
• Pathogen records as a tool to manage udder health (Koivula, M. and E.A. Mäntysaari)
• Can changes in milk composition at udder quarter level be used to detect udder disturbances? (Svennersten-Sjaunja, K., I. Berglund, G. Pettersson and K. Östensson)
• The use of a database for genetic evaluation and to manage health in dairy cows (Karsten, S., E. Stamer, W. Junge, W. Lüpping and E. Kalm)
• Mastitis detection in dairy cows by application of Fuzzy Logic (Cavero, D., K.H. Tölle, C. Buxadé and J. Krieter)

Poster

• The relative day-to-day variation in milk yield and composition for cows milked two or three times daily (Svennersten-Sjaunja, K., J. Bertilsson, U. Larsson and L-O. Sjaunja)
• Milk flow and udder health in dairy cows (Tölle, K.H., U. Tölle and J. Krieter)
• Oestrus detection in dairy cattle using ALT-Pedometer and Fuzzy-Logic (Pache, St., C. Ammon, U. Brehme, H.J. Rudovsky, R. Brunsch, J. Spilke and U. Bergfeld)