Farmer and Veterinary Practices and Opinions Related to the Diagnosis of Mastitis and Metabolic Disease in UK Dairy Cows

Farmer and Veterinary Practices and Opinions Related to Fertility Testing and Pregnancy Diagnosis of UK Dairy Cows

“…Interestingly, our study highlighted discrepancies between farmers and veterinarians regarding the need for better diagnostics for dairy cattle. Thus, as was the case for fertility testing, veterinarians had slightly better opinions than farmers about current pregnancy tests although they believed that farmers do not make full use of the tests available, an opinion that is consistent with that expressed by veterinarians in an earlier survey on mastitis and metabolic disease in the UK (19). Moreover, veterinarians also underestimated farmers' dissatisfaction with current tests as well as their willingness to pay more for a pregnancy testing ( Table 6).…”

Factors Associated with Antimicrobial Stewardship Practices on California Dairies: One Year Post Senate Bill 27

“…The availability of affordable diagnostic tools that can detect animals at early stages of disease is important to prevent the high financial costs derived from lost productivity and the treatment of diseased animals [ 43 ]. Testing animals for disease can boost herd health and cut costs associated with AMD treatment [ 44 ]. A UK survey of dairy herds reported that both farmers and veterinarians recognized there was substantial room for improvement of current diagnostic tools for the detection of mastitis and metabolic disease in dairy cows, particularly with regard to early disease detection [ 44 ].…”

“…Testing animals for disease can boost herd health and cut costs associated with AMD treatment [ 44 ]. A UK survey of dairy herds reported that both farmers and veterinarians recognized there was substantial room for improvement of current diagnostic tools for the detection of mastitis and metabolic disease in dairy cows, particularly with regard to early disease detection [ 44 ].…”

Genetics of Metabolic Disorders in Animals

“…Proportion of phenotypical variants and differences between cohort of animals attributed towards genetic variations of metabolic issues among farm and dairy animals (Berry et al 2011). Metabolic diseases can be detected at the early stages in animals by using different veterinary diagnostic tools such as quantification of fat protein ratios, level of metabolites and body scoring (Donadeu et al 2020). Contributions to control animal metabolic diseases with recent technologies including significant genetic selection makeup on exposure to environmental stressors is the need of era (Brito et al 2020).…”

“…Ruminal acidosis is defined as bovine metabolic disorder which affects feedlot and dairy cattle. It is associated with ingestion of large amount of carbohydrate-rich feed which results in accumulation of acids in rumen (Donadeu et al 2020) Fluid balance is disturbed in this disease. Normal pH of rumen ranges from 6.5 to 7.0.…”