257 Richtlijn Veterinair handelen bij vleeskuikens rondom de opzet en in de eerste levensweek op het vleeskuikenbedrijf by Koninklijke Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Diergen (Tools & Checklists)

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257 ToolsChecklists – Richtlijn Veterinair handelen bij vleeskuikens rondom de opzet en in de eerste levensweek op het vleeskuikenbedrijf by Koninklijke Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Diergen

In Significant Impact Groups: Housing and welfare
Species targeted: Broilers; Poultry;
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Summary:
This directive was produced for Dutch poultry veterinarians to provide guidance in veterinary practice concerning the start-up of and management in the first week of live of broiler chicks. Apart from the procedures to follow in prescribing antibiotic treatments the directive provides a vast amount of practical tips and norms for managing and monitoring the optimal start-up of broiler chicks. For example, regarding optimal climate, lighting scheme, water management, feed and supportive measures such as advice on pre- and probiotics, vitamins and minerals, organic acids and fytobiotics. So while this guide is directed to veterinarians and offers a lot of veterinary medicinal information regarding the risk for illness and pathogens and its treatment in the early life of broilers, it can also be an interesting information source for broilers farmers keen on finding insights to improve their start-up management.

Where to find the original material: http://www.journees3r.fr/IMG/pdf/texte_7_reduction_intrants_b-mounaix-2.pdf;
Country: Netherlands

256 EMA Categorisation of antibiotics for use in animals for prudent and responsible use by European Medicines Agency (Tools & Checklists)

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256 ToolsChecklists – EMA Categorisation of antibiotics for use in animals for prudent and responsible use by European Medicines Agency

In Significant Impact Groups: Prudent use AB \ Veterinarian
Species targeted: Pigs; Poultry; Dairy; Beef; Sheep;
Age:
Summary:
Veterinarians are encouraged to check and consider EMA’s updated scientific advice on the categorisation of antibiotics when prescribing these medicines for animals in their care. This categorisation can also be used as a tool for the preparation of treatment guidelines. The classification now comprises four categories, from A to D: Avoid, Restrict, Caution and Prudence. Category A: These medicines may not be used in food-producing animals and may be given to individual companion animals only under exceptional circumstances. Category B: The use of these medicines in animals should be restricted to mitigate the risk to public health. Category C: These antibiotics should only be used when there are no antimicrobial substances in Category D that would be clinically effective. Category D: These antibiotics can be used in animals in a prudent manner.

Where to find the original material: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/report/infographic-categorisation-antibiotics-use-animals-prudent-responsible-use_en.pdf;
Country: European Union

252 Drinkwatercheck melkveehouderij by ZLTO (Tools & Checklists)

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252 ToolsChecklists – Drinkwatercheck melkveehouderij by ZLTO

In Significant Impact Groups: Water \ Water quality
Species targeted: Dairy;
Age:
Summary:
Good quality drinking water is an important prerequisite for livestock. Experience shows that the water entering the company is of excellent quality. Afterwards, however, until the water is absorbed by the animal, the bacteriological and chemical quality often deteriorates. Drinking water of bad quality has effects on animal health and can therefore be a cause of lower production or slower growth!
In order to be able to monitor the quality of drinking water itself as an entrepreneur, ZLTO has developed a checklist on behalf of VION and LIB, together with a number of dairy farmers.
With the checklist you can find out where you can improve the drinking water supply and there are tips on how to do this.

Where to find the original material: https://www.zlto.nl/stream/drinkwatercheck-melkvee;
Country: Netherlands;

251 Drinkwatercheck varkenshouderij by ZLTO (Tools & Checklists)

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251 ToolsChecklists – Drinkwatercheck varkenshouderij by ZLTO

In Significant Impact Groups: Water \ Water quality
Species targeted: Pigs;
Summary:
Good quality drinking water is an important prerequisite for livestock. Experience shows that the water entering the company is of excellent quality. Afterwards, however, until the water is absorbed by the animal, the bacteriological and chemical quality often deteriorates. Drinking water of bad quality has effects on animal health and can therefore be a cause of lower production or slower growth!
On behalf of VION and LIB, ZLTO has developed a checklist together with a number of pig farmers in order to be able to monitor the quality of the drinking water itself.
With the checklist you can find out where you can improve the drinking water supply and there are tips on how to do this.
Go through all the sections if you want to know where improvements are possible. If you already know where you can make improvements, take a look at the extra tips.

Where to find the original material: https://www.zlto.nl/stream/drinkwatercheck-varkenshouderij;
Country: Netherlands;

250 Welzijnscheck by POV (Tools & Checklists)

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250 ToolsChecklists – Welzijnscheck by POV

In Significant Impact Groups: Housing and welfare
Species targeted: Pigs;
Summary:
Since mid-June 2020, welfare checks for sucking piglets, weaned piglets, fattening pigs and rearing sows have been available on www.welzijnscheckvarkens.nl. They show the risks of welfare problems on the farm per animal category.
This concerns in particular the risk assessment of the biting behaviour of pigs. The indicators (animal-bound and non-animal-bound) that influence the bite behaviour are assessed. The aim of the risk assessment is to improve animal welfare, animal health and overall operating results.
Purchasers in the Netherlands and abroad place high demands on the animal welfare of pigs. The welfare check for pigs has been developed to demonstrate good animal welfare. It also enables pig farmers to properly identify the risk of biting their pigs’ flanks, ears or tails.

Where to find the original material: inlog via vitale varkenshouderij portal: https://www.vitalevarkenshouderij.nl/portal;
Country: Netherlands;

246 Kapstok M-team by M-team Faculty of veterinary medicine Ughent (Tools & Checklists)

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246 ToolsChecklists – Kapstok M-team by M-team Faculty of veterinary medicine Ughent

In Significant Impact Groups: AMU reduction strategies \ Monitoring and surveillance
Species targeted: Dairy;
Age:
Summary:
The M-team from Ughents’ faculty of veterinary medicine provides an action guide with 10 critical points to be attention to as a dairy farmer to improve the prevention of new mastitis infections as well as shortening the recovery period of infected cows and increase the odds full clinical and bacteriological infection. The 10 points are: good milking technique, regular checks and maintenance of the milking installation, optimization of comfort and hygiene, meticulous treatment sub-and clinical mastitis, optimization of drying-off protocol, culling of chronically infected cows, sufficient attention to housing and health management for heifers, general health of the dairy herd, breeding for better udder health and monthly monitoring of the udder health on the dairy farm. For all these points, practical tips and relevant information are collected in farmer-friendly language that allow to pinpoint the areas to focus on and how to take corrective action.

Where to find the original material: https://www.ugent.be/di/vvb/nl/over-ons/m-team_kapstok;
Country: Belgium;

245 Selectief droogzetten in Vlaanderen by M-Team Ughent Faculty of veterinary science (Tools & Checklists)

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245 ToolsChecklists – Selectief droogzetten in Vlaanderen by M-Team Ughent Faculty of veterinary science

In Significant Impact Groups: Prudent use AB \ Farmer
Species targeted: Dairy;
Age:
Summary:
The tool “Selectief droogzetten in Vlaanderen” provides an easy to use flowchart to determine whether your dairy meets the requirements to start practicing selective dry cow therapy and if so provides a flowchart to assist in selecting cows needing antibiotic treatment when drying-off and which don’t. Farm determinants include: attitude towards selective dry-cow therapy, good drying-off protocol in place, absence of Streptococcus agalactiae from the herd, recording of milk production and or somatic cell count (SCC) and a bulk milk SCC less than 250 000 cells per ml. The determinants at cow level include the occurrence of clinical mastitis between the last milk production recording and the moment of drying-off, the production level at drying off, data on the last three SCC’s before drying-off and specific thresholds for the SCC per cow depending on parity and the 6 monthly geometric average of the bulk SCC of the herd.

Where to find the original material: https://m-tools.ugent.be/home/Poster_selectief_droogzetten.pdf;
Country: Belgium

244 Time to Vaccinate_ The importance of preventive health and vaccination programmes in ruminant production by MSD Animal Health (Industry Innovation)

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244 Industry Innovation – Time to Vaccinate_ The importance of preventive health and vaccination programmes in ruminant production by MSD Animal Health

In Significant Impact Groups: Pathogen management \ Vaccination
Species targeted: Dairy; Beef; Sheep; Other;
Age: Different for different species; Not stated;
Summary:
Immunity has been defined as a condition of being able to resist a particular disease especially through preventing development of a pathogenic microorganism or by counteracting the effects of its products, or in simpler terms it is the power to resist infection whether innate or acquired. A strong powerful immunity is therefore crucial to maintain health in our current animal production, where multiple types of pathogens are continually challenging the health, welfare and productivity of our animals. Vaccinations play a great role in optimizing the animal’s power to resist disease. On a population basis, vaccinations have led to the eradication and control of many diseases. Vaccines are indispensable tools to prevent potentially dangerous infectious diseases and to maintain animal welfare and the productivity of animal production. Vaccine use within disease prevention and eradication programmes has optimized animal production, health and welfare, and contributed to a highly efficient production system.

Where to find the original material: https://www.farmantibiotics.org/tool_links/the-importance-of-preventive-health-and-vaccination-programmes-in-ruminant-production/;
Country: EU

215 SHAWG – Industry guidance document for veterinary surgeons and farmers on responsible use of antibiotics in sheep by The Sheep Health and Welfare Group SHAWG (Tools & Checklists)

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215 ToolsChecklists – SHAWG – Industry guidance document for veterinary surgeons and farmers on responsible use of antibiotics in sheep by The Sheep Health and Welfare Group SHAWG

In Significant Impact Groups: AMU reduction strategies
Species targeted: Sheep;
Age:
Summary:
The SHAWG guidance document has been written to outline the key steps in ensuring veterinary surgeons and farmers work together to review and achieve responsible use of antibiotics within the sheep flock. Examination of antibiotic use in the sheep sector, identified the following three areas of concern with regards to prescribing practices for sheep. In some cases these involved whole flock prophylactic treatment for these three specific disease management areas: control of infectious lameness, prevention of enzootic abortion and treatment of lambs against neonatal bacterial infections. The primary recommendations are that, in order to replace, refine and reduce antibiotics in these target areas, vets and sheep farmers should work to plan ahead, prevent disease and protect their flocks.

Where to find the original material: http://beefandlamb.ahdb.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Responsible-AMU-guidance-for-sheep_Version-1.0_June-2019.pdf;
Country: United Kingdom;

182 Categorisation of antibiotics used in animals promotes responsible use to protect public and animal health by EMA (Tools & Checklists)

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182 ToolsChecklists – Categorisation of antibiotics used in animals promotes responsible use to protect public and animal health by EMA

In Significant Impact Groups: Prudent use AB \ Veterinarian
Species targeted: Pigs; Poultry; Dairy; Beef; Sheep;
Age:
Summary:
Veterinarians are encouraged to check and consider EMA’s updated scientific advice on the categorisation of antibiotics when prescribing these medicines for animals in their care. This categorisation can also be used as a tool for the preparation of treatment guidelines. The scientific advice ranks antibiotics by considering both the risk that their use in animals causes to public health through the possible development of antimicrobial resistance and the need to use them in veterinary medicine. The update takes into account the World Health Organization’s CIA list, i.e. those of most relevance for human health. The EMA also evaluated the impact of the route of administration on the selection of AMR and included its conclusions in a separate list to consider when prescribing antibiotics. The classification now comprises four categories, from A to D: Avoid, Restrict, Caution and Prudence.

Where to find the original material: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/report/categorisation-antibiotics-european-union-answer-request-european-commission-updating-scientific_en.pdf;
Country: EU;