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MUHH – Make Udder Health Happen

Authority

Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz

Federal State

Lower Saxony and Bremen

Contact

Calenberger Straße 2
30169 Hannover

Website: External link to the authority

Project Title

MUHH – Make Udder Health Happen

Project description

Development and testing of an overall concept to improve udder health on dairy farms. The aim of the project is to develop and establish, in cooperation with six dairy cattle farms in Lower Saxony, the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture and the Hanover University of Applied Sciences, an overall concept for improving udder health that can be adapted to the individual needs of each farm. (1) improve herd health and animal welfare at the same time, and (2) reduce the use of antibiotics and counteract the potential emergence of antibiotic resistance or reduce existing resistance. For dairy farms, a holistic and practicable udder health concept is important to ensure animal health and farm competitiveness. Within the framework of various scientific research projects, the effectiveness of various individual measures has been analyzed in the recent past. For a real innovation in practice, however, the integration of these measures into an overall concept and the operational preparation of this overall concept are missing. In the project, these innovations are to be made practicable and suitable. 

Results focusing on practiceorientation

An overall concept for improvement of the udder health in dairy farms, implementing the use of modern tools and aiming at a reduction of use of antibiotics in mastitis, was established. Therefore, relevant udder health aspects were regarded and combined after a respective risk analysis, implying the implementation of systematic udder health monitoring, concepts for selective dry-cow treatment as well as evidence-based mastitis treatment concepts. Depending on the respective dairy farm´s starting position, this overall udder management concept achieved an udder health improvement while reducing the antibiotic usage to different extents. The targeted improvement in animal health, in conjunction with the reduction in antibiotic use, contributes overall to increasing the sustainability of milk production. This is an elementary component in developing competitive production systems that are resource- and animal-friendly.

Key words

  • Animal husbandry
  • Pest/disease control
  • animal welfare

Main funding source

Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)

OG contact information

Hochschule Hannover
Heisterbergallee 10a
30453 Hannover

Phone: 0511/9296-2205

Email: volker.kroemker@hs-hannover.de

Type of OG partners

  • Farmer
  • Advisor
  • Researcher

Begin of project

2019

Project status

completed

Total budget applied for in EUR

487,220

Link 1

project website of EIP Lower Saxony

NUTS3 CODE

DE929

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