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Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz
Lower Saxony and Bremen
Calenberger Straße 2
30169 Hannover
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MUHH – Make Udder Health Happen
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.
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.
Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups (in the sense of Art 56 of Reg.1305/2013)
Hochschule Hannover
Heisterbergallee 10a
30453 Hannover
Phone: 0511/9296-2205
Email: volker.kroemker@hs-hannover.de
2019
completed
487,220