Calf Health Infographic

6 Oct 2018

Calf Health

The cattle antibiotics group has launched a cross-industry initiative to improve calf health, with the aim of encouraging more farmers to engage in proactive health planning.

The campaign brings together resources which cover all parts of the beef and dairy calf production systems and will focus on three key areas: identification and appropriate treatment, review planning and disease prevention.

Keep an eye out on social media for the hashtag #calfhealth.

Many of these resources are on the ideas hub – browse #CalfHealth – or can be obtained by clicking on the links below.

Respond

• AHDB Beef Diseases Directory
• AHDB Pneumonia MOT
• AHDB Mycoplasma bovis
• AHDB Cryptosporidium in calves 
• AHDB Pneumonia MOT
• Wisconsin calf scoring system
• Westpoint Farm Vets – quick guide to calf scour
• Westpoint Farm Vets – IBR
• XL Vets calf scours factsheet
• XL Vets calf pneumonia factsheet
• XL Vets liver fluke factsheet
• XL Vets BVD factsheet
• NADIS – calf scour – beef and dairy rearer
• NADIS – calf scour – suckler herds
• NADIS – Cryptosporidiosis
• NADIS – disbudding calves
• NADIS – respiratory disease in dairy and beef rearer units
• XL Vets cryptosporidiosis factsheet

 

Review

• AHDB The calf environment – getting it right
• AHDB Antimicrobial resistance Using antibiotics responsibly
• AHDB Using medicines correctly for better returns
• Westpoint Farm Vets paper – Calf Health Management Practices, Pre-Weaning

Disease Levels And Calf Mortality Of Kent Dairy Farms

• XL Vets dairy cow biosecurity factsheet
• NADIS – calf housing

 

Prevent

• AHDB Best practice vaccination of beef and dairy cattle
• AHDB Vaccinating Cattle Safely and Effectively
• AHDB Improving Dairy Bred Calf Health
• AHDB Opportunities and challenges in calf housing and management for the next decade
• AHDB Calf management
• Westpoint Farm Vets – Vaccination, the benefits and pitfalls
• Westopoint Farm Vets paper – impact of colostrum type on passive transfer
• Westpoint Farm Vets paper – protein measurements in newborn calves and prediction of DLWG
• Westpoint Farm Vets paper – Use of Decoquinate in Milk Replacer to Control Coccidiosis in Calves
• XL Vets colostrum management factsheet