Calves are born without antibodies in their blood and are totally dependent on antibodies in the colostrum they drink after birth. Good colostrum management is extremely important to rear healthy calves, but also productive cows. However, colostrum management is not optimal at many farms, which has of course a financial impact.
R4D
Resilience For Dairy
This factsheet explains how bringing a team of farmer, vet, feed and farm advisors together is sharing different sources of knowledge together, making the Multi Actor Farm Health approach an effective approach to improve biosecurity on poultry farms
An infographic providing a compact overview on Polish company approach to recycle organic waste and by-products.
This factsheet presents the biosecurity audit tool Biocheck Ugent, that can give a biosecurity scoring in poultry farms to measure biosecurity level.