Livestock Matters
farm animal veterinary consultancy
Dairy Services
Livestock Matters has a wealth of experience in helping farmers to manage dairy herds: mastitis, poor fertility and lameness can be a worry. Advice is also available on the more general problems of nutrition and herd health.
Mastitis
Natalie has in-depth experience of mastitis investigation and was recently trained in the implementation of the DairyCo Mastitis Control Plan which involves:
- Thorough farm visit assessing cow housing, management, parlour routine, milking machine, nutrition, treatment protocols and more
- Analysis of mastitis and SCC records
- Analysis of bacteriology results
- Production of prioritised action report, tailored to your individual situation
- Use of cost calculators to predict likely time to return on investment for various options
You can therefore be confident that any investment of your time and money will be spent on the most useful areas.
The Dairyco Mastitis Control Plan is available as a 12-month contract as well as on an ad hoc basis.
Nutrition
Nutrition affects many areas of dairy performance read more...
Fertility
Most dairies use some form of pregnancy diagnosis read more...
Lameness
Dairy cow lameness is a major cost in terms of productivity and welfare. read more...
Herd Health Planning
It is extremely important for dairy farmers to identify areas in which health problems are affecting profitability. read more...