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Northern New York Dairy Institute Presents:
Dairy Herd Health

Come learn about dairy herd health management from some of the best veterinarians, technicians, and academics in the dairy industry. This seven-topic course consists of classroom and hands-on, on-farm expereinces. Participants can choose to earn a proficiency certificate or both the certificate and college credits. The classes are as follows:

Class 1: January 12th in Clinton County, 13th in Franklin County – Dr. Tom Overton

• Management of the close-up dry cow. Preventing fresh cow metabolic disease.

Class 2: January 19th in Clinton County, 20th in Franklin County

• Management of the fresh/transition cow. Physical exams, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Benchmarks and SOP’s.
• Potential for on-farm visit and hands-on physical exams

Class 3: January 26th in Clinton County, 27th in Franklin County

• Calf and heifer health management – how to recognize and treat calf disease. Fluid therapy, physical exams.
• Potential on farm visit with necropsy

Class 4: February 2nd in Clinton, 3rd in Franklin – Dr. Garry Bennett

• Milk quality and mastitis – Culturing and pathogens, sample collection, treatment and milking procedures. Mammary gland physiology.
• Mastitic mammary gland dissection

Class 5: February 9th in Clinton, 10th in Franklin

• Infectious disease and biosecurity – Cover all animal groups and the recommended/suggested vaccines. Immunology, why we vaccinate and vaccination SOP’s. Why vaccines fail?

Class 6: February 16th in Clinton, 17th in Franklin

• Lameness management – Cow comfort, stocking density and welfare as they relate to production and lameness. Benchmarks to detect if lameness is an issue in your herd.

Class 7: Febraury 23rd in Clinton, 24th in Franklin

• Reproductive management – How metritis, BCS loss, and lameness effect reproductive performance. Dairy Comp 305 for reproductive performance record keeping.
• Students taking it for credit will complete a one hour written final exam at the close of the last class.

 

Cost is $75 for a proficiency certificate or $150 for college credit. Participants must attend all six sessions to receive a certificate or college credits. College credits are offered through both Morrisville State College and Alfred State.

For more information contact Carl Tillinghast at 518.483.7403 or cat21@cornell.edu or Emily Myers at 518.353.4949 or erm35@cornell.edu.

This program is funded by the New York Center for Dairy Excellence.