405 – Code of Good Practice Regarding the Responsible Prescribing and Use of Antibiotics in Farm Animals by Irish Farmers IFA and Veterinary Practitioners (Tools & Checklists)

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405 ToolsChecklists – Code of Good Practice Regarding the Responsible Prescribing and Use of Antibiotics in Farm Animals by Irish Farmers IFA and Veterinary Practitioners

405 Tools & Checklists
Code of Good Practice Regarding the Responsible Prescribing and Use of Antibiotics in Farm Animals by Irish Farmers (IFA) and Veterinary Practitioners (Veterinary Ireland)
In Significant Impact Groups:
Species targeted: Pigs; Poultry; Dairy; Beef; Sheep;
Age:
Summary:
Responsible use of antibiotics means aiming to use “as little as possible and as much as necessary”. A „Code of Good Practice Regarding the Responsible Prescribing and Use of Antibiotics in Farm Animals‟ was launched in November 2018. These Guidelines have been developed by Irish Farmers and Veterinary Practitioners to guide good practice in the responsible prescribing and use of antibiotics in farm animals, in response to the global societal challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The development of and spread of AMR is a challenge for public and animal health into the future. Farmers have a key role to play by working to keep antibiotics effective for future generations through improving animal health and reducing levels of use on farms.
Where to find the original material: https://www.gov.ie/pdf/?file=https://assets.gov.ie/94001/550a156d-4ccb-40fe-97c1-ecb860263a0b.pdf#page=1
Country: Ireland

404 Bioexclusion – Keeping Infectious Diseases Out of Your Herd by Animal Health Ireland (Tools & Checklists)

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404 ToolsChecklists – Bioexclusion_ Keeping Infectious Diseases Out of Your Herd by Animal Health Ireland

404 Tools & Checklists
Bioexclusion: Keeping Infectious Diseases Out of Your Herd by Animal Health Ireland
In Significant Impact Groups:
Species targeted: Dairy; Beef;
Age:
Summary:

Threats to the health of your stock may come from outside your farm and from within your farm. Protecting the health of animals on your farm by implementing simple preventative practices is called Biosecurity. There are two types of BIOSECURITY PRACTICES: 1. Actions taken to reduce the risk of infectious disease coming into your farm (BIOEXCLUSION). 2. Actions taken to reduce spread of infectious diseases within your farm (BIOCONTAINMENT). You can reduce (but not always eliminate) the risk of bringing-in disease by implementing bioexclusion practices. This leaflet deals with practical steps to help you improve and maintain a high level of Bioexclusion. As herds expand farmers need to be even more conscious of implementing bioexclusion practices.

Where to find the original material: https://animalhealthireland.ie/?page_id=397;
Country: Ireland

402 Best Practice Guidance to reduce the need for antibiotics in poultry production by International Poultry Council (Tools & Checklists)

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402 ToolsChecklists – Best Practice Guidance to reduce the need for antibiotics in poultry production by International Poultry Council

402 Tools & Checklists
Best Practice Guidance to reduce the need for antibiotics in poultry production by International Poultry Council
In Significant Impact Groups:
Species targeted: Poultry;
Age:
Summary:

Addressing antimicrobial resistance through the sharing of best practices is essential to maximizing the health, welfare and productivity of poultry, and minimizing the potential spread of food borne antimicrobial resistance to humans. This Guidance, written by poultry industry experts in conjunction with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), provides practical and proven actions that can be taken at farm level. These will support poultry farmers and veterinarians in their duty to use antibiotics through a responsible, prudent and targeted application, to reduce the risk of resistance and ensure they remain effective in the future.

Where to find the original material: https://internationalpoultrycouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ipc_best_practices_antibiotics.pdf;
Country: International;

400 – Predicting Disease in Transition Dairy Cattle (Research paper -Sahar – 2020)

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400 Research paper -Sahar – 2020 – Predicting Disease in Transition Dairy Cattle

.l M. Weary 2020 Animals 10: 15p paper
In Significant Impact Groups: Precision Livestock Farming & Early detection \ Sensor technology
Species targeted: Dairy;
Age: Adult;
Summary:
Dairy cattle often become ill after calving. This article is about models designed to predict which cows are likely to become ill based upon measures of the cows’ feeding and competitive behaviors before calving. The models had high sensitivity (73–71%), specificity (80–84%), positive predictive values (73–77%), and negative predictive values (80–80%) for both cows that had previously calved and for those calving for the first time. So they concluded that behaviors at the feed bunk before calving can predict cows at risk of becoming sick in the weeks after calving.

Where to find the original material: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/10/6/928/htm; https://doi.org/10.3390/ani10060928
Country: British Columbia, Canada

399 – Machine learning based fog computing assisted data driven approach for early lameness detection in dairy cattle (Research paper – Taneja – 2020)

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399 Research paper – Taneja – 2020-Machine learning based fog computing assisted data driven approach for early lameness detection in dairy cattle

In Significant Impact Groups: Precision Livestock Farming & Early detection \ Sensor technology
Species targeted: Dairy;
Age: Not stated;
Summary:
Timely lameness detection is one of the major and costliest health problems in dairy cattle. This poses a concern with increasing herd sizes, as prolonged or undetected lameness severely compromises cows’ health and welfare, and ultimately affects the milk productivity of the farm. To tackle this, an end-to-end IoT application that leverages advanced machine learning and data analytics techniques to monitor the cattle in real-time and identify lame cattle at an early stage has been developed. The proposed approach has been validated on a real world smart dairy farm setup consisting of a dairy herd of 150 cows in Waterford, Ireland. The detected lameness anomalies are further sent to farmer’s mobile device. The results indicate that lameness can be detected 3 days before it can be visually captured by the farmer with an overall accuracy of 87%. This means that the animal can either be isolated or treated immediately.

Where to find the original material: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339914936_Machine_learning_based_fog_computing_assisted_data-driven_approach_for_early_lameness_detection_in_dairy_cattle; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2020.105286
Country: IE

393 – 4 ways Sweden has cut antibiotics use on dairy farms by Ylva Persson associate state veterinarian at the Swedish Veterinarian Association (Tools & Checklists)

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393 ToolsChecklists – 4 ways Sweden has cut antibiotics use on dairy farms by Ylva Persson associate state veterinarian at the Swedish Veterinarian Association

In Significant Impact Groups:
Species targeted: Dairy;
Age:
Summary:
Ylva Persson, associate state veterinarian at the Swedish Veterinarian Association, explains how the country is achieving the lowest use of veterinary antimicrobials among EU member states and offers advice on how UK farmers can aspire to do the same. The 4 ways are: removing unnecessary use of antibiotics, minimizing need and preventing spread, optimising use when needed, and monitoring use and resistance.

Where to find the original material: https://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/health-welfare/livestock-medicines/4-ways-sweden-has-cut-antibiotics-use-on-dairy-farms;
Country: Sweden;

392 – Phytobiotics in poultry and swine nutrition – A review (Research paper – Gheisar – 2017)

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392 Research paper – Gheisar – 2017 – Phytobiotics in poultry and swine nutrition – a review

In Significant Impact Groups: Specific alternatives \ Pre-/probiotics
Species targeted: Poultry; Pigs;
Age: Young; Adult;
Summary:
Bacterial resistance and antibiotic residues in animal products led to raising the concern in using antibiotics as growth promoters and finally resulted in the ban on using in-feed antibiotics in most of the developed countries. As an alternative, phytobiotics were recommended by researchers and nutritionists. Plenty of studies have been done using phytobiotics in poultry and swine nutrition so far. They have mostly shown the antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and growth promoting effects of phytobiotics. Antioxidative function of phytobiotics can positively affect the stability of animal feed and increase animal’s products quality and storage time. Generally, the available documents indicate the positive effects of phytobiotics on poultry and swine performance.

Where to find the original material: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1828051X.2017.1350120?scroll=top&needAccess=true; 10.1080/1828051X.2017.1350120
Country: South Korea

391 – Essential oils as alternatives to antibiotics in swine production (Research paper – Omonijo – 2018)

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391 Research paper – Omonijo – 2018 – Essential oils as alternatives to antibiotics in swine production

In Significant Impact Groups: Specific alternatives \ Immunomodulators
Species targeted: Pigs;
Age: Young; Adult;
Summary:
This review article summarizes the efficacy, feasibility and potential mechanisms of the application of essential oils as antibiotic alternatives in swine production. The effects of essential oils on inflammation, oxidative stress, microbiome, gut chemo-sensing and bacterial quorum-sensing (QS) have led to better production performance of animals fed essential oils in a number of studies. It has been demonstrated that essential oils have good potential as antibiotic alternatives in feeds for swine production. The combination of different essential oils and other compounds (synergistic effect) such as organic acids seems to be a promising approach to improve the efficacy and safety of essential oils in applications.

Where to find the original material: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405654517301233; 10.1016/j.aninu.2017.09.001
Country: Canada, China

390 – Phytochemicals as antibiotic alternatives to promote growth and enhance host health (Research paper – Lillehoj – 2018)

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390 Research paper – Lillehoj – 2018 – Phytochemicals as antibiotic alternatives to promote growth and enhance host health

In Significant Impact Groups: Feed / gut health \ Feed additives and supplements
Species targeted: Pigs; Poultry; Dairy;
Age: Not stated;
Summary:
Scientists from industry and academia and government research institutes shared their experience in developing and applying potential antibiotic-alternative phytochemicals commercially to reduce AGPs and to develop a sustainable animal production system in the absence of antibiotics.

Where to find the original material: https://veterinaryresearch.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13567-018-0562-6; 10.1186/s13567-018-0562-6
Country: USA

389 – Alternatives to antibiotics for farm animals (Research paper – Papatsiros – 2014)

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389 Research paper – Papatsiros – 2014 – Alternatives to antibiotics for farm animals

In Significant Impact Groups: Specific alternatives \ Immunomodulators
Species targeted: Sheep; Dairy; Poultry; Pigs;
Age: Not stated;
Summary:

Nowadays, there is an increasing concern for the public health about the consequences from the long and increased use of antibiotics in livestock production. The use of antibiotics in animal feed as growth promoters has been completely banned by the European Union since 2006, based on their possible negative effects on human and animal health. The removal of growth promoters has led to animal performance problems and a rise in the incidence of certain animal diseases. Thus, there is an urgent need to find alternatives to antibiotics, especially in EU. Due to the modern consumers’ concern about the potential development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria as well as at the same time the need to prevent economic losses of the farmers, alternatives to antibiotics has been developed to prevent the health problems and to improve the growth performance in farm animals. Owing to the full ban of antibiotic use in EU there is an urgent need to find alternatives to in-feed antibiotics. New strategies and commercial products must be developed to improve animal health and performance, based on their safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness. The aim of this study is to summarize the beneficial effects of currently used alternatives to in-feed antibiotics, i.e. probiotics, prebiotics, organic acids, phytogenic compounds and zeolites on health and growth performance in farm animals (swine, poultry and ruminants).

Where to find the original material: https://www.cabi.org/cabreviews/review/20133390413; 10.1079/PAVSNNR20138032
Country: Europe