When bringing hew herd additions onto the farm your goal should be
- Protect the herd from diseases brought in with new additions
- Protect new additions from diseases they w ill be exposed to when entering your herd
Don’t buy herd health problems
Exercise caution when adding new cattle to the herd
- They can be a source of new diseases and problems
- The best precaution is to maintain a closed herd
Buying non-lactatmg cattle or cows in late lactation is preferred to buying close-up cattle or cows in
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Observe them closely before commingling them with the herd
Have a chance to run tests and get test results back
Properly immunize them before commingling them with the herd
Protect your present herd from problems that may be earned in by incoming cattle, and protect
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Maintain an effective vaccination program for your herd
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Exercise the same caution when you send cattle away to another farm, where they may be co-mingled with
cattle from other farms, and then bring them back to your farm again
Diseases can be spread in many ways, some of which are manure, dirty equipment that contaminates feed
or feeding areas, people with contaminated boots walking in feed alleys, direct contact of animals with
each other, poor quality air, contaminated feeds, contaminated water and streams, needles, hoof trimming
and dehoming equipment, vehicles, birds, dogs, flies, etc To help prevent the spread of diseases,
consider the following biosecunty measures
Insist that visitors sanitize their footware before entering your bam and provide a place where it can
be done Keep them out of feeding areas »
Locate breeding charts and herd records in a convemet place, OTHER THAN in the feed alley
Use different equipment for handling feed and manure, and keep manure-contaminated equipment out
of feed areas
Separate young calves and heifers from older cattle Don’t let young calves and heifers graze on
pastures grazed by older cattle, the pastures may be worm infested
Purchase cattle from healthy herds, preferably trom as few different herds as possible, and preferably
without having them go through a livestock auction facility Don’t rely on the health papers, they
may or may not be accurate You may want to do your own testing and vaccinating so you know for
sure what has been done Your herd is too valuable to take too many chances
Isolate know infected cattle and new herd additions from other cattle in the herd
Provide good ventilation and air exchange
Test suspect feeds (home grown or purchased) for toxins and infectious m croorgamsms
Fence cattle away from swamps, streams, ponds and other potentially contaminated pools of water
Use individual needles for individual cows
Sanitize needles, dehoming and hoof trimming equipment between cows
Haul cattle coming into your herd on clean, sanitized vehicles Have one place where cattle trucks
load and unload animals, and one loading pen for animals leaving or entering the herd. Don’t let the
trucker walk through the bam
Protect cows and cow feed from birds
Dispose of carcasses m a sanitary way Don’t let dogs lick cows or have access to dead animals
Keep premises clean and dry to help prevent the buildup of infectious organisms and to reduce fly
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