Cow Recovery: The Sustainable Solution for Improving Downer Cow Outcomes

奶牛康复：改善情绪低落奶牛结局的可持续解决方案

• 批准号: 10082215
• 金额: $ 4.96万
• 依托单位: YEATMAN AND SONS LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10082215
• 关键词: Cow; Recovery; Sustainable; Solution; Improving

The occasional downer cow, who cannot rise unaided due to illness or injury, is a fact of life on all dairy units. She may rise immediately following initial first aid; if not, she must be moved to a hospital pen for further assessment, nursing or veterinary care. Cows are difficult animals to move practically and humanely due to their size and all the existing techniques have drawbacks.The Cow Recovery project is an innovative Farmer/Vet collaboration which aims to improve outcomes for downer cows by providing a safer alternative to current methods of moving them, in conjunction with veterinary training.The Cow Recovery bucket, which can be attached to machinery available on most UK dairy farms, has key adaptations which make it uniquely suitable for moving downer cows and is painted appropriately to enhance public understanding and ensure a singular purpose. It enables two stock people to move a recumbent cow in a stress-free manner to a suitable location, without risk of injury to themselves or the animal.A twelve month study run on ten leading dairy farms will gain feedback on their experiences of using the bucket compared with previous techniques and follow the outcomes for the cows moved; including adverse events, short-term and long-term survival as well as experiences of the farm workers themselves.The learnings gained from this study will be shared through the veterinary training materials to create a standardised blueprint for safely and humanely handling the downer cow.Improved handling of recumbent cows has the potential to reduce mortality; improve welfare, productivity, efficiency, reputation and hence the sustainability and resilience of the UK dairy industry.

偶尔因疾病或受伤而无法无助的唐纳牛是所有奶牛场的生活。她可能会在初次急救后立即上升。如果没有，则必须将她搬到医院笔以进行进一步评估，护理或兽医护理。由于牛的尺寸，并且所有现有技术都有缺点。牛恢复项目是一种创新的农民/兽医协作，旨在通过提供当前的替代方法来改善downer牛的结果，与兽医培训相结合，可以使牛皮恢复桶可用，这可以使牛iuke cons of Marchin of Machiner，牛奶的替代方法是，牛恢复的替代方法是，它可以使牛iu恢复到最多的公园，从而改善牛奶的替代方案，牛奶恢复的替代方法是，它可以使牛iu恢复到最多的公园，这使得dair of to ruckin of to nuctia。独特的适合移动降低奶牛，并适当地绘制以增强公众理解并确保单一目的。它使两个股票的人能够以无压力的方式将卧铺牛移至合适的位置，而不会受伤或动物受伤的风险。十二个月的研究对十个领先的奶牛场进行了研究，将获得与以前的技术相比使用桶的经验，并遵循牛的量工的经历；包括不良事件，短期和长期生存以及农场工人本身的经验。从这项研究中获得的学习将通过兽医培训材料共享，以创建标准化的蓝图，以安全，人性化处理唐纳的牛。改性的recumbert奶牛有可能降低死亡率；提高福利，生产力，效率，声誉，从而提高英国奶牛行业的可持续性和韧性。